Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
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India’s Reliance Industries signed its $1.47bn dual-currency loan at the end of last week in Dubai, with the deal sealed following commitments from a group of around 30 lenders.
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Saka Energi Indonesia, a subsidiary of Perusahaan Gas Negara, has hit the market for a financing of up to $600m and is giving the banks the option of booking the loan onshore or offshore.
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Mercuria Energy has wound up its latest multi-tranche loan at an increased size of $1.1bn. The shorter one year portion proved popular among lenders, but a three year tranche ended up being scaled back.
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The leveraged finance market suffered an unpleasant shock this week, when $5.6bn of loans and bonds for the Carlyle Group’s acquisition of Veritas Software had to be pulled. Bankers were left blaming market sentiment, an aggressive structure — and each other, write Max Bower and Victor Jimenez.
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The weakness of the US leveraged finance market was brought home to market participants with a jolt on Tuesday, when the Carlyle Group, which is buying Veritas Technologies, a US data storage company, abandoned its attempt to raise $3.3bn of debt for the deal.
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries “just scraped home” with very tight pricing on the $33.75bn loan it signed on Monday. Only around half the banks invited participated because margins were so tight, said a banker close to the deal.
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Teva, the New York-listed Israeli pharmaceutical company, has completed and signed $33.75bn of loans for its acquisition of Allergan Generics.
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A $328.6m loan for poultry feed producer Charoen Pokphand (CP) Indonesia has seen nine lenders join, as the borrower sealed most of the funds in its local currency while capping the dollar portion at $100m.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, mandated a group of 21 banks to provide its $75bn loan facility, but there was no coordinator as AB InBev took an active role in arranging the transaction.
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India’s Jindal Steel & Power is understood to have asked banks to relax a covenant on a $400m borrowing sealed in April 2013.
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Teva, the New York-listed Israeli pharmaceutical company, held a meeting with banks on Wednesday for the syndication of $33.75bn of loans to buy generic drug business Allergan Generics.
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Intercity, the Turkish car lessor, has signed what is thought to be the first ever Samurai loan for a Turkish company, for €40m. But Japanese investors will not come piling into the Turkish market, said one banker.