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  • Banks attended a meeting in Paris yesterday (Thursday) for the £3.95bn acquisition financing for the French building materials firm Lafarge, backing its hostile bid for Blue Circle of the UK. Terms on offer appeared more generous than many of the some 35 banks present expected. But this was in large part due to the hostility of the bid. However, it has given them a chance to join a high paying deal and make some headway towards ambitious 2000 fee targets.
  • Argentina The IFC has brought in Barclays Bank (Miami) as an arranger on an $80m B-loan for Banco Hipotecario SA. The three year loan will be launched in Frankfurt, London and New York on consecutive days, starting February 22.
  • * World Bank Rating: Aaa/AAA
  • Bahrain The $68m two year term loan for Aluminium Bahrain, arranged by Sumitomo Bank, is set to raise an oversubscription, with the borrower considering how much extra funding to accept.
  • THE NEUER MARKT showed increased signs of maturity this week with a placement for market giant MobilCom, an increase in Carrier 1's IPO to make it the largest ever on the NM, a slew of IPOs and the imminent launch of Lycos Europe's eagerly awaited Eu400m offering. On Tuesday Deutsche Bank placed Eu393m in shares of MobilCom on behalf of Unisource, which recently sold its D-Plus mobile telephone business to the mobile telephony operator.
  • THE NEUER MARKT showed increased signs of maturity this week with a placement for market giant MobilCom, an increase in Carrier 1's IPO to make it the largest ever on the NM, a slew of IPOs and the imminent launch of Lycos Europe's eagerly awaited Eu400m offering. On Tuesday Deutsche Bank placed Eu393m in shares of MobilCom on behalf of Unisource, which recently sold its D-Plus mobile telephone business to the mobile telephony operator.
  • Belgium One of Europe's leading semiconductor firms CS2 will list on Easdaq on March 4 in a Eu50m IPO. BNP Paribas and Fortis will be joint leads for the deal. The firm specialises in a process called area array packaging.
  • * Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette has appointed Steve Rattner as head of fixed income in Europe. He will report to James Alexandre, president and CEO of DLJ International in London, David DeLucia, global head of fixed income, and Bennett Goodman, global head of the high yield and leveraged loan group in New York. Rattner will relocate to London from New York where he was head of high yield capital markets for five years.
  • Market report: Compiled by Glenn Blackley,
  • Launched this week to a select group of banks is the Sfr4.1bn facility to back the purchase of Cablecom by NTL of the UK, arranged by Chase Manhattan and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Banks are invited as arrangers, to underwrite tickets of Sfr400m, or as co-arrangers to underwrite Sfr160m. Fees are rumoured to be around 125bp, described by one banker as "juicy".
  • ALTERNATIVE telecoms provider, Level 3, is set to add another large-sized transaction to the high yield market with a bond due to be priced next week. The offering will be similar in scale to January's $1.5bn equivalent jumbo deal from cable company United Pan-European Communications (UPC). Level 3's deal is expected to include around $1.5bn of equity financing alongside the $1.5bn equivalent of high yield bonds.
  • * DePfa Rating: Aa3/AA (Moody's/Fitch IBCA)