M&A: Telefónica connects with 02

Excitement over corporate hybrids has been replaced by hopes of a boom in M&A refinancing.

“We’ve been waiting for two years, but finally the name of the game in 2006 for corporates is M&A refinancing,” says Arnaud Achour, head of origination, debt capital markets, at SG.

The airlines must be considering increasing the prices of business class seats from London to Madrid, such is the regularity of bankers’ visits to Spain. And it’s not just Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland – the three arrangers of the acquisition funding for Telefónica’s purchase of UK mobile phone network O2 that are building up air miles.

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