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  • Lao Feng Xiang Jewellery Hong Kong is dipping its toes into the offshore syndicated loan market for a $200m financing. This is the second firm in the Chinese jewellery sector to tap overseas investors this year.
  • Far East Horizon is making a rapid comeback with an $800m fundraising just two months after allocating an identical loan, confident that banks will gobble it up.
  • French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has announced its second multi-billion euro takeover this month, offering to buy Belgian biotech company Ablynx for €3.9bn in cash.
  • Informa, the UK media group, has made a formal £3.9bn takeover offer for events company UBM, and has agreed a bank loan to fund the roughly £653m cash part of the purchase.
  • A recent syndication for Omani borrower Bank Sohar made market observers take notice, thanks to the presence of Axis Bank at the top group, reflecting Indian banks’ rising eagerness to provide liquidity for foreign currency deals. Yet the country rarely features in the roadshow schedule for fundraisings — an oversight that banks should rapidly correct.
  • Indiabulls Housing Finance is looking to borrow an up to $200m five year loan to replace an identical fundraising from September 2016.