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  • A Dubai World subsidiary has agreed to buy port operator DP World for $13.9bn. The lending desks at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank will be big winners from the debt-fuelled transaction.
  • UK soft drinks maker Britvic has signed its first sustainability-linked financing, joining a growing trend of companies offering to charity any margin benefit they gain on the loans hitting targets.
  • Haitong International Securities Group has closed its club loan at a bigger size of HK$12bn ($1.5bn) after finding support from a group of 19 lenders.
  • Reports from PitchBook and Preqin have found an increased concentration of capital in private debt funds, which is giving larger asset managers a whip hand in dealmaking. Meanwhile, smaller funds are struggling to raise and deploy capital, and investors are seeking the safety of big players ahead of an expected downturn. Silas Brown reports.
  • Nabil Lahham has joined HSBC to head up advisory and corporate finance coverage for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. He was most recently at Perella Weinberg Partners.
  • Nomura has made sustainability one of the pillars of its fightback in investment banking, as it joins the race to harness the power of sustainability-related M&A and capital markets deals.