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  • A dual currency acquisition financing for Indian company Intas Pharmaceuticals’ purchase of a portfolio of assets in the UK and Ireland, was launched into senior syndication last week. The trade offers banks two titles, including that of mandated lead arranger and bookrunner.
  • Now in its 20th year, the Loan Market Association (LMA) faces tough paths to climb such as navigating the UK’s exit from the European Union, but the organisation is confident that its English law documentation will still hold its own.
  • NBAD — Arqiva — BAM — Priory Group
  • Dutch construction company Royal BAM Group has refinanced a €417.5m revolving credit facility due to mature in 2018, with a smaller loan of €400m with tighter pricing, after printing a €125m convertible bond in June.
  • Lifestyle International, which operates the Sogo department stores, is believed to be talking to relationship banks for a loan related to its acquisition of a plot of land in Hong Kong. But the company’s downgrade by Fitch and the possibility of similar action by Moody’s could make things harder at the negotiating table, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.
  • China put the brakes on capital outflows again this week, taking aim at both large and small scale transactions amid a falling renminbi. Market participants are digesting the impact of the new curbs, as yet unconfirmed, but some thought that they could weed out dodgy deals and raise the quality of M&A financing. John Loh and Shruti Chaturvedi report.