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  • Syndication of the £660m senior debt facility for betting chain William Hill will be wrapped up next week, with signing scheduled for the week of July 15. Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland are arranging the debt.
  • AOL Time Warner's bond spreads gapped out more than 200bp to junk levels this week as investors began to offload names even before there were any accounting scandals attached to them. The company's 10 year bonds, issued in April at 168bp over US Treasuries, were seen trading in the 500bp area from 300bp earlier in the week, despite the fact that there had not been any negative announcements by the company.
  • After assessing depressed equity markets, Yell has announced that it is delaying its planned IPO until true value can be realised. Soon after Yell made the announcement, Moody's confirmed the Ba3 rating of Yell's £1.05bn of senior bank debt.
  • Dutch corporate Buhrmann has set up a euro800 million ($784.66 million) Euro-MTN programme. Standard & Poor's has assigned its preliminary ratings to the asset-backed floating-rate notes to be issued off the facility. Buhrmann is a supplier of paper, office products and graphic systems.
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA Amount: Eu253m (fungible with three issues totalling Eu235m first launched 13/03/02)
  • Bank of Scotland (bookrunner) and Royal Bank of Scotland plan to sign Giro Bank, Lloyds and Yorkshire Bank into the £122m acquisition facility backing CD Bramall's acquisition of Quicks plc. The three banks are going through documentation, and funding is due on July 15.
  • Rating: Baa1 Amount: £150m
  • Arranger Development Bank of Singapore has launched a $50m three year term loan for Want Want Holdings through a British Virgin Islands SPV. Invitations have gone out to selected banks which will receive a margin of 70bp over Libor.
  • Amount: Eu1.3bn Legal maturity: December 15, 2027
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Sfr450m
  • Sentiment in the European IPO market reached a new low this week when the UK directories company Yell, DIY group Focus Wickes and Polish media company ITI Group pulled their flotation plans. Yell, which owns the Yellow Pages and Business Pages in the UK, chose not to proceed with its offering citing market conditions. While this was generally regarded as the only sensible decision to take, the company was struggling to attract investor interest even before the WorldCom-induced panic.
  • Chilean mining company Codelco has sent out requests for proposals (RFPs) for a new international bond issue, making it a rare Latin issuer willing to brave dismal markets. The offering's maturity and size is open for discussion, said one banker who added that whatever Codelco decides to do, it will price on top of where a new Chilean sovereign issue would come to market.