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On December 13, 2012, a syndicate of 26 banks — including the Bank of China (BOC) — entered into a $2.500 billion USD syndicated multicurrency revolving credit facility (RCF) agreement with Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, PJSC (TAQA) — an United Arab Emirates-incorporated energy holding company operating in oil and gas, power generation, water desalination, and infrastructure sectors headquartered in Abu Dhabi and listed on Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange majority-owned by Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), a wholly state-owned company of the Government of Abu Dhabi (51.05% stake) with Fund for the Support of Farm Owners in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, another wholly-owned entity of the Government of Abu Dhabi holding a significant stake (21% stake) — for refinancing and general corporate purposes. The RCF was divided into two tranches: a $1.300 billion USD tranche with a maturity period of five years and a variable interest rate based on LIBOR plus a margin between 100 basis points (bps) and a $1.200 billion USD tranche with a maturity period of three years and a variable interest rate based on LIBOR plus a margin between 75 bps. The loan was available for draw down in United States dollars, euros, British pound sterling, and Canadian dollars. The proceeds were to be used to refinance a $3 billion USD syndicated loan from 2010 and for general corporate purposes. Record ID#110807 captures BOC's contribution to the $1.3 billion USD tranche. Record ID#110808 captures BOC's contribution to the $1.2 billion USD tranche. In addition to BOC, the following lenders contributed to both tranches: BNP Paribas S.A., Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU), Citibank, HSBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBA), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB), Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), DNB Bank ASA, Doha Bank Q.P.S.C., First Gulf Bank PJSC (FGB), Lloyds Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (MHCB), and Morgan Stanley. TAQA began seeing the RCF in October 2012 as a $2 billion USD-equivalent RCF. BAML, BTMU, BNP Paribas, Citi, HSBC, DBA, RBS, SGCIB, Standard Chartered, and SMBC were the initial mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners, originally committing $200 million USD in October 2012. 16 further banks joined in syndication. BTMU served as coordinating bank and facility and documentation agent. As of December 31, 2012, no amounts were drawn under the RCF. As of December 31, 2013, $577 million USD was drawn under RCF. As of December 31, 2014, $698 million USD was drawn under RCF. On August 12, 2015, a syndicate of 15 banks entered into a $3.1 billion USD syndicated RCF with TAQA to refinance all existing tranches of its RCFs.
Staff comments
1. The individual contributions of the 26 lenders to this $1.2 billion USD tranche are unknown. AidData has assumed each lender contributed to each tranche (though it is known 17 lenders, including BOC, contributed to it). Therefore, for the time being, to estimate BOC's contribution, AidData has assumed that each lender contributed equally ($46,153,846.1538 USD) to the loan syndicate.