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French building materials firm Lafarge has signed a two year extension to its €1.2bn syndicated loan, pushing out the maturity on the facility to July 2015. Some 24 lenders consented to the new maturity.
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The European loan market is a pretty wide-ranging beat. Over the last few years, Loan Ranger learnt all about aluminium smelters in Siberia, the details of railway systems in the UK and just how a confectionary giant decides on which chocolates it produces.
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Although high yield has suffered an extremely volatile last 12 months, the sub-investment grade bond market remains the most likely source of relief for Europe’s estimated $550bn 2012-2016 leveraged buy-out maturity wall, according to a EuroWeek poll of market participants.
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Syndication of the €510m term loan ‘B’ tranche of the Skr9.9bn ($1.45bn) senior loan facility backing CVC’s buy-out of Ahlsell is "super-oversubscribed", said a banker with knowledge of the deal before Thursday’s commitment deadline.
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Indonesian telecom tower operator Tower Bersama aims to raise as much as $375m in the international loan market after securing commitments from lead arrangers for $250m.
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Is this the beginning of the end of the syndicated loan market for certain types of borrowers? It’s a question being whispered around European financial centres as companies increasingly ask their bank lenders about putting bilateral loan facilities in place.