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  • Reckitt Benckiser this week closed syndication on $20bn of term loans and bridge facilities to finance its acquisition of Mead Johnson.
  • Leading Chinese technology firms including Alibaba Group Holdings, its affiliate Ant Financial and Tencent have swept into the loan market and are said to be seeking a collective $13bn-$14bn. Given their acquisitive tendencies, their latest fundraisings have found strong support from relationship lenders, despite political risks surrounding some of the targets, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.
  • State Bank of India, which allocated its most recent fundraising only a few weeks ago, is back in the market already for a $500m three year facility. A group of 13 lenders is processing approvals to lead the new deal.
  • Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) has approached banks for a $150m five year bullet to take out the remainder of a $750m bridge raised through three bilaterals last year.
  • A group of four lenders are close to clinching the mandate for a financing to support the purchase of a stake in Indian data analytics firm Mu Sigma.
  • You wait for one and then three come along at once. A trio of major Chinese technology firms have approached the loan market for funding said to be in a region of a combined $13bn, GlobalCapital Asia understands.