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EuroWeek understands that Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) this week signed the documentation with three banks to arrange a $200m facility. The deal is due to be launched into syndication next week.

Amount: Eu1bn Legal maturity: December 20, 2042

UK retailer GUS this week announced the long awaited IPO of Burberry, its luxury goods subsidiary. The flotation will be priced by mid-July, two weeks after its Italian rival Prada completes its Eu1bn-Eu1.5bn IPO. The deals will test investor enthusiasm for two different luxury good strategies, with Prada advocating a multi-brand model and Burberry promoting its single brand approach.

CAF demonstrated how far it has distanced itself from the influence of the emerging markets this week by successfully issuing a Eu350m 6.375% seven year deal, its largest and longest bond in Europe. The Caracas-based supranational attracted enough institutional investor interest to increase the issue from Eu300m at launch and price it at 125bp over mid-swaps - 9bp inside CAF's dollar-denominated 2011s and 5bp wider than its recent 2012 dollar global on a Libor basis.

Guarantor: Caixa d'Estalvis de Catalunya Rating: A2/A

Imperial Tobacco this week capitalised on investor appetite for defensive, cash-generative assets to launch a Eu2.8bn three tranche transaction in euros and sterling. The proceeds were to partly refinance funding that Imperial raised in March to buy German tobacco company Reemtsma.

The $180m facility for Shanghai Hua Qing Real Estate is progressing well. Bank of China (Hong Kong), Commerzbank and Maybank joined arranger DBS in sub-underwriting. The facility is divided between an $80m three year term loan facility and a $100m three year standby LC.

C&C Group, the Irish drinks and snack foods group, will aim for a market capitalisation of Eu1.15bn-Eu1.4bn when it floats in the next two months. Citigroup/SSSB and Goldman Sachs will lead the deal, with Davy Stockbrokers and IBI Corporate Finance managing the Irish element of the deal. The predicted valuation is based on analysts' research and excludes an IPO discount.

Ciments Francais (Ciments), the French cement maker, signed a euro1 billion ($935.38 million) Euro-MTN programme on May 17 and became the fourth issuer from that sector to join the market in the last two years. BNP Paribas, Ciments's arranger, also arranged London Electricity Group's MTN shelf this year. Ciments's ratings from Moody's and Standard & Poor's of Baa2 and BBB respectively place it in a competitive sector of the market, and recent volatility from corporates means many investors have spurned them for higher credits. Regina Bouille, head of finance at Ciments, is unfazed however. She says: "A certain number of transactions have been done recently at good levels, and I hope the market will continue on that trend." No plans have been made for a debut deal, but French investors will already know of the issuer from its activity in the French CP market. It has a euro600 million French CP programme, which it signed in 1998, with $451.44 million outstanding off 44 trades. Bouille says the marketing of the facility will be done once plans for a trade, likely to be in euro, are in place. She says: "We have no plans yet to start using the programme, so any roadshow, as normally happens in the bond markets, will be done just before we begin to trade." The dealer panel consists of the arranger, ABN Amro, CDC IXIS Capital Markets, Credit Agricole Indosuez, Credit Lyonnais, Credit Mutuel CIC, HSBC, ING Barings/BBL, Lehman Brothers, Natexis Banques Populaires, Salomon Smith Barney, SG, and Unicredit Banca Mobiliare.