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Indian oil firm Essar Energy has mandated Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Lloyds, Standard Chartered and WestLB to lead a new $1.5bn three year syndicated loan.
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Albaraka Turk Katilim Bankasi has launched syndication of its $150m dual-currency one year murabaha facility.
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Russian financial institution VTB this week signed its record-breaking $3.13bn three year unsecured loan, the largest ever for a bank in central and eastern Europe. The successful completion showed that lender appetite was strong enough to ignore concerns about the borrower’s potential exposure to $8bn of bad real estate loans at Bank of Moscow.
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Two very different Ukrainian borrowers are in the loan market — agricultural credit Ukrlandfarming and steel producer Metinvest. The number of banks willing to lend to Ukrainian names is smaller than other eastern European countries, but both deals offer returns that many might find appealing.
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Bankers running the Z18bn ($6.6bn) leveraged buy-out for Poland’s mobile phone operator Polkomtel, the largest LBO in Europe since 2008, believe that demand for the deal is strong enough to close the facility with just one round of syndication. It could be launched as soon as Monday.