Taira Hall joined Pacific Western Bank as the executive vice president of products and partnerships. Hall previously worked at Visa Business Solutions, Citigroup and Deloitte Consulting.
Commerzbank, Danske Bank and ING Bank served as coordinating mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners on a new multi-currency revolving credit facility for Securitas AB in the amount of $920.68 million.
As part of a syndicate of 14 banks, Citigroup served as a joint lead bookrunner and joint lead arranger for a new $280 term loan facility for Harsco Corporation.
Volkswagen closed a €10 billion ($11 billion) five-year revolving credit facility with Citigroup, Credit Agricole and UniCredit as arrangers and coordinators.
Barclays Capital Real Estate and Citigroup Global Markets Realty completed a a $1.5 billion mortgage loan of San Francisco’s Parkmerced on behalf of owner Maximus Real Estate Partners. AIMCO provided a $275 million mezzanine loan .
Groupe Casino signed a new €2 billion ($2.2 billion) revolving credit facility, which will mature in October 2023, as part of its refinancing plan. Twenty-five banks joined the syndicate.
The Wall Street Journal reported Citigroup has tapped its Latin America chief, Jane Fraser, to serve as the bank’s No. 2 executive, putting her atop the list to succeed Chief Executive Michael Corbat.
GoldenTree Loan Management closed a €402 million ($443 million) collateralized loan obligation to be managed by GLM.
Natgasoline priced around $900 million of new senior secured debt financing, including a $565 million term loan B. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs acted as left lead arrangers and bookrunners on the term loan.
Reuters reported that Sears chairman Eddie Lampert is holding discussions with Cyrus Capital Partners to share the $30 million financing to support the company’s Chapter 11 effort.