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Transdev, the French public transport operator, has signed a Skr1.2bn (€117m) credit facility to buy low carbon buses in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. One of the commercial lenders arranging the deal has used European Investment Bank money rather than its own, to provide better financing conditions.
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InterContinental Hotels Group has negotiated a waiver and relaxation on its loan covenants for the second time in 2020, as its leverage threatens to plunge its rating into junk territory.
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Britishvolt, a start-up UK battery technology company, is looking at a range of funding options for a £2.6bn battery gigaplant site in the UK. A company spokesperson said that bank lending would make up just part of the financing.
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AstraZeneca, the UK pharmaceuticals company, has lined up $17.5bn of bridge loans from three banks to back its $39bn acquisition of US biotech firm Alexion.
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Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch grocer, has refinanced a €1bn revolving credit facility and added sustainability-linked metrics to the deal, as the company’s capital structure continues its shift towards ecological and socially conscious financing.
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Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical company, has signed €8bn of sustainability-linked syndicated loans, while Italian natural gas distribution company Ascopiave has completed its own deal using the structure.