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India The senior phase of syndication for the $159m 10 year shipping facility for Enron Corporation should sign today (Friday).

IRELAND's Ministry of Public Enterprise has disclosed plans to seek a New York listing for Telecom Eireann in its forthcoming sale of stock. The government will send out invitations to 20 international investment banks to pitch for syndicate positions in the privatisation, which will involve the divestment of a substantial portion of the operator's equity capital. The deal will be launched in May or June, market conditions permitting. The government disclosed its plans after a meeting in Dublin this week and bankers says its aims include maximising investors' access to the company's shares.

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LEHMAN Brothers has closed off the co-arranging phase of the senior secured debt portion of the facilities backing Morgan Grenfell Private Equity's £390m purchase of Coral, the UK-based betting chain. Nine banks were invited into the deal and offered tickets of £40m for a fee of 125bp. By the end of the co-arranging phase seven banks had joined the deal, raising £280m -- an excellent result considering the anxiety showed by many in the market before the deal was launched.

Egypt Expect news over the next few weeks of one of Egypt's top five banks tapping the international syndicated loan market.

MERITA and Merrill Lynch have won the fiercely contested mandate to be joint global co-ordinators for the flotation of Aleksia, the Finnish property holding company, which will become one of the few listed property investment stocks in the Nordic region. "This deal was being chased by the big guns from several US firms," said one local banker. "Aleksia has a unique position in the Finnish property market and is well placed to take advantage of booming economic conditions in Helsinki."

GLOBAL co-ordinator Morgan Stanley Dean Witter made the most of the sharp recovery in the US stockmarket yesterday (Thursday) by executing the hugely successful $3.1bn sale of stock in Equant, the Atlanta and Amsterdam-based data communications carrier. The firm's ordinary shares, trading in Paris and New York, have performed spectacularly since the group's $810m IPO last summer when they were priced at $27 (Ffr161.66).

NATIONAL Grid has offered a working mandate to a group of banks to arrange the debt facility that will, in part, finance Grid's $3.2bn agreed purchase of New England Electric System. Six banks have the working mandate -- ABN Amro, Barclays, Chase (joint bookrunner), Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (joint bookrunner) and HSBC, two more than originally expected.