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Capital markets make a U-turn for AirTanker |
At £2.5 billion ($4.98 billion), the AirTanker deal (which will fund new aircraft for the Royal Air Force) is a very big transaction by public finance initiative standards, and not to tap the bond and bank markets would have been unthinkable this time last year. But it seems that a rethink on the size of the bond tranche was on the cards as early as August 2007, when the crisis in the credit market first began to bite. By the New Year, as it became very clear that the monoline guarantors faced serious difficulties, plans to include both bond and loan tranches in the deal were abruptly scrapped by sponsors Cobham, EADS, Rolls-Royce, Thales UK and VT Group. A group of seven banks was then swiftly assembled to arrange a £2.2 billion loan.
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