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Project narrative
On May 11, 2015, a syndicate of 41 banks — including the London and Singapore Branches of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) — entered into a $1.25 billion USD syndicated credit facilities agreement with Puma International Financing S.A. — the Luxembourg-incorporated indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Puma Energy Holdings Pte. Ltd. — a Singapore-incorporated mid-and downstream oil company managing supply, storage, refining, distribution, and retail of petroleum products with its corporate headquarters in Singapore with its shareholders being Netherlands-incorporated Trafigura Beheer BV under Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. (48.39% stake), Angolan state-owned Sonangol Holdings, Lda. (30.00%), Marshall Islands-incorporated Cochan Holdings LLC, a vehicle for Angolan politician Leopoldino Fragoso do Nascimento (15.00% stake) and other investors (6.61% stake) — for unspecified corporate purposes. The facility was divided into two tranches: a $750 million USD revolving credit facility (RCF) that carried a maturity period of three years and an interest rate of LIBOR plus 245 basis points (bps), which was further divided into $390,000,000 USD revolving loan "Facility B" and $360,000,000 term loan USD "Facility C"; and a $500 million USD term loan tranche with a maturity period of one year and an interest rate of LIBOR plus 165 bps. Record ID#98943 captures the contribution of ICBC's London Branch. Record ID#109776 captures the contribution of ICBC's Singapore Branch. The following banks serving as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners: the London Branch of ICBC, the Singapore Branch of ICBC, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP)— Foreign Branch, Emirates NBD Capital Limited, FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank Division), Singapore Branch, ING Bank N.V., Natixis, Nedbank Limited, London Branch, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, and The Standard Bank of South Africa.
Staff comments
1. The individual contributions of the 41 lenders to this $1.25 billion USD tranche are unknown. AidData has assumed each lender contributed to each tranche Therefore, for the time being, to estimate the contributions of ICBC, AidData has assumed that each lender contributed equally ($30,487,804.878 USD) to the loan syndicate. 2. It is unclear whether whether the ICBC branches contributed to either or both tranches of the 2012 refinanced facility. AidData has assumed they contributed to both and taken the average of the maturities {[(1 + 3) / 2] = 2 years} as the maturity period of this record and the average of the reference rates {[(2.45 + 1.65) / 2] = 2.05%}.