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  • Denmark As reported in the last edition of Euroweek, Commerzbank, Den Dankse, Handelsbanken Markets and Unibank have won the mandate to arrange a refinancing facility for Danisco. The deal is worth Eu750m, as a five year multicurrency revolver.
  • MERRILL LYNCH set new standards for accelerated global offers this week when it sold over Eu2bn of the Finnish government's stake in zeitgeist stock Sonera in a few short hours on Tuesday. While a number of banks had approached the government about the sale of shares, Merrill Lynch believes it was the only institution to suggest such a large deal could be conducted in a day.
  • Tanzania Barclays Capital, CIBC, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and SG are working on the information memorandum for the $200m project financing for the Bulyanhuly gold mine. The deal is likely to be launched in early April.
  • Australian Mortgage Securities Ltd, the non-bank mortgage financing programme owned by ABN Amro Bank, launched its second Euromarket MBS this week after a high profile roadshow in Europe. A regular issuer in the Australian domestic market, AMS made its international debut last July, in the midst of the spate of Australian MBS that pushed spreads to unprecedentedly wide levels.
  • AFTER being absent from the international bond markets since the end of January, the Republic of Argentina made a keenly anticipated return to the bond markets this week, launching a dollar global bond on Monday and following up with a euro issue yesterday (Thursday). The B1/BB/BB Latin sovereign's $1bn 10 year offering at the start of the week was sole lead managed by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, marking the first time that Argentina has awarded a sole books mandate on a dollar issue since March 1998.
  • AFTER being absent from the international bond markets since the end of January, the Republic of Argentina made a keenly anticipated return to the bond markets this week, launching a dollar global bond on Monday and following up with a euro issue yesterday (Thursday). The B1/BB/BB Latin sovereign's $1bn 10 year offering at the start of the week was sole lead managed by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, marking the first time that Argentina has awarded a sole books mandate on a dollar issue since March 1998.
  • The runaway syndication of the £3.95bn acquisition financing for Lafarge attracted critical comments this week as bankers found their commitments heavily scaled back. Lafarge has made a £3.4bn hostile cash bid for Blue Circle of the UK. Around 35 banks joined, taking the deal into a triple oversubscription. It raised about £13bn, making general syndication very unlikely. Co-arrangers may be cut back to around £98m, described by one banker as "peanuts".
  • Hong Kong ABN Amro (Hong Kong), Bayerische Landesbank (Hong Kong), DG Bank and Standard Chartered are close to the mandate for a HK dollar fundraising for AIG Finance (Hong Kong).
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  • Australia Co-ordinating arrangers Chase Manhattan Australia and Toronto-Dominion Australia have extended the deadline for potential arrangers for the A$1.15bn dual tranche project financing for One.Tel Networks Finance until next week.
  • Deutsche Bank and Dresdner merging? Stranger things have happened at sea but don't you also have a nagging doubt that the main German banks have difficulty closing a bathroom door, yet alone a deal. Dresdner was supposed to be about to jump into the marital bed with Hypo-Vereinsbank which actually looked like a very cuddly twosome. Deutsche was still trying to grapple with integrating the dowdy Bankers Trust which never looked like the smartest acquisition.