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Andritz, the Austrian machinery maker, raised €400m in a dual tranche Schuldschein transaction this week. The large size — with tenors of seven and 10 years — illustrates commercial banks' growing willingness to lend for long. -
CVC flexed its buyout muscles again this week, buying two European tech companies for more than €1bn, while Blackstone has agreed to a joint venture for its recently acquired cigarette filter making business Rhodia Acetow with a unit of US chemicals firm Celanese.
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Two Indonesian financial institutions, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and Adira Dinamika Multi Finance, are scheduled to hit the loan market in July.
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High-end solar panel maker REC Solar has tasted success with its first Asian syndicated loan attracting enough demand for it to raise $330m after exercising a $25m greenshoe.
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Safetykleen Europe, the surface treatment and chemical application services provider, has led a group of smaller new money deals to market this week. It held a bank meeting on Wednesday in London for its €455m seven year term loan ‘B’, backing Apax’s buyout from Warburg Pincus.
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The Asian loan market hasn’t exactly been a hotbed of inventiveness, but it’s still seen some changes. Domestic markets, particularly China, have become vastly more active, while the balance of power in the market has shifted towards local lenders. All, however, are struggling in a world of low margins and low volumes. Adrian Murdoch reports.
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