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  • Financière Agache, the French holding company, sold a tightly priced Eu1bn bond exchangeable into shares in LVMH, the French luxury goods company, on Tuesday. But despite it being seven times oversubscribed, investors and convertible analysts complained that the offering was typical of other recently launched equity-linked deals in that the issuer had tried to squeeze too much out.
  • Rating: Aa3/AA- Amount: Sfr50m
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  • Triple-A rated General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC) this week announced plans to tap the global loan market for a $15bn credit via arrangers Citigroup/SSB, JP Morgan and Bank of America. EuroWeek understands that the deal was launched into the US market yesterday (Thursday). The deal will hit the Asian market next week with the European tranche due to be syndicated the following week.
  • Despite the wave of telecoms equipment jitters felt by the market this week after Moody's cut US telecommunications company Nortel Network's rating by three notches to junk status on Monday (Baa3 to Ba3), Alcatel's Eu1.5bn multi-tranche facility has closed as a blow-out success. The loan has been increased to Eu2.075bn.
  • The $100m five year facility for Ashanti Goldfields Corp has proved a success in the market and is due to be closed next week. The response has been so favourable that a reserve list has been drawn up.
  • Rating: A2/BBB+/A- Amount: Eu500m
  • Citigroup/SSSB (bookrunner), CSFB, Deutsche Bank and HSBC (bookrunner and agent) have clinched the mandate to arrange a $1bn debt facility for Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company. The deal is split between a three year revolver that carries a margin of 30bp and a five year revolver paying 35bp.
  • The existing syndicate of banks that committed to the £130m five year dual tranche loan signed for healthclub chain Holmes Place in 2000 have been invited by Lloyds to recommit to the £190m refinancing. The terms and conditions of the deal have remained almost identical to the 2000 deal.
  • In the latest step to broaden its Japanese debt capital markets (DCM) team, ING has hired Toshihiro Hirose as managing director and head of institutional sales. Hirose, who is based in Tokyo, has spent 20 years working at Sumitomo Life, and his appointment reflects the Dutch bank's aim to gain a larger share of the Japanese investment banking market.
  • HMV Group, the UK-based media company, confirmed that the recovery in the IPO market is under way yesterday (Thursday) when it announced its £600m flotation.