Narrative
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Project narrative
In early 2012, a syndicate of 10 banks — including the Bank of China (BOC) — signed a $400 million AUD syndicated term loan agreement with Colonial Finance Limited — a special purpose vehicle (SPV) wholly owned by Australian insurance and wealth management holding company Colonial Holding Company Limited (CHCL) — for the Colonial Holding Company 2012 Refinancing Project. The loan carried a maturity period of three years. Originally, it had a face value of $400 million AUD, but in 2012, after $315 million AUD had been drawn down, the undrawn portion was cancelled. The proceeds of the loan were to be used by the borrower for refinancing and general corporate purposes. BOC contributed $25 million AUD to the syndicate. Record ID#93935 captures BOC's contribution. In late June 2014, a syndicate of 12 banks — including BOC — entered into a $350 million AUD syndicated term loan facility agreement with Colonial Finance Pty Limited (CFPL) — the newly-renamed CFL — for the Colonial Holding Company 2014 Refinancing Project. This loan carried a maturity period of four years. The proceeds of this facility were to be used by the borrower for refinancing purposes; specifically, it was used to fully repaid and terminate the 2012 $315 million AUD that had been transferred in April 2013 to Colonial Finance Company in accordance with a loan novation agreement. As of June 30, 2014, this facility had been fully drawn down. In addition to BOC, the following lenders contributed to the loan syndicate: Citi, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), HSBC Bank Plc, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Mega International Commercial Bank Co., Ltd., Standard Chartered Bank PLC, Chang Hwa Commercial Bank Limited, Jih Sun International Bank, Ltd. (JSIB), Land Bank of Taiwan Co., Ltd. (LBOT), and Taiwan Cooperative Bank. Citi, CBA, HSBC, Mizuho, and SMBC served as the original bookrunners and mandated lead arrangers. BOC joined in syndication as a lead arranger. Mega International Commercial Bank and Standard Chartered joined in syndication as mandated lead arrangers. Chang Hwa, JSIB, LBOT, and Taiwan Cooperative joined in syndication as arrangers. Record ID#97242 captures BOC's contribution.
Staff comments
1. Colonial Finance Pty Limited (CFPL)'s (formerly Colonial Finance Limited) immediate parent, Colonial Holding Company Limited (CHCL), is 100% owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia. 2. The individual contributions of the 12 lenders to this $350 million AUD syndicated loan is unknown. For the time being, AidData has estimated the contribution of BOC by assuming that each lender contributed an equal amount ($29,166,666.6667 AUD) to the syndicated loan. 3. AidData has coded June 27, 2014 as the commitment date, but marked the commitment_date_estimated? field as True because "Loan Week, June 27-July 3" suggests the loan was made between June 27, 2014 and July 3, 2014, while page.52 of "Colonial Holding Company Limited Annual Report 2014" states the loan was made in June 2014; ergo, it highly likely the loan was made between June 27 and 30, 2014 or earlier.