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Jun 13, 2014
Tata Steel Ltd. (TATA), India’s biggest
producer of the alloy, is in discussions with banks to raise a
$3 billion loan for refinancing debt taken to fund the
acquisition of Corus Group Plc in 2007.
The company plans to borrow in five- or seven-year tenor to repay debt used to purchase U.K.-based Corus for $12.9 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter. The funds may be denominated in U.S. dollars and other foreign currencies, the people said, asking not to be identified because the terms aren’t set. Tata Steel spokesman Kulvin Suri declined to comment.
Chairman Cyrus Mistry is seeking to take advantage of a revival in demand in Europe, the company’s biggest market, and falling borrowing costs to refinance part of the $6.14 billion obligation taken to finance the Corus acquisition. Tata Steel has the equivalent of $15.4 billion of bonds and loans due, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“Dollar rates are favorable at the moment, and they may seek to take advantage before the U.S. and U.K. raise interest rates,” said Taina Erajuuri, who helps manage the equivalent of about $1 billion in emerging-market assets at FIM Asset Management in Helsinki. “The company’s debt levels are still high and this move will help them repay some of this at lower rates.”
Margins on foreign-currency denominated loans taken by Indian companies have averaged 176 basis points in the first half of 2014 versus 197 in the six months ended Dec. 31, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Indian companies have borrowed about $10.1 billion from overseas this year, data show.
Tata Steel’s shares fell 4.4 percent to 525.55 rupees in Mumbai yesterday, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index dropped 1.4 percent. Prices of Tata Steel’s 4.5 percent convertible notes due in November fell to $101.375, compared with $101.625 on June 12, according to Jefferies Group LLC prices.
The company reported a profit including that of Tata Steel Europe Ltd. of 10.4 billion rupees ($174 million) in the quarter ended March 31, compared with a 65.3-billion-rupee loss a year earlier.
Group steel deliveries rose 16 percent in the quarter to 7.62 million tons. Registrations for new cars in the European Union jumped 5.4 percent in the period, the longest streak of year-on-year gains since 2009, according to Bloomberg Industries.
To contact the reporter on this story: Anurag Joshi in Mumbai at ajoshi53@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Arijit Ghosh at aghosh@bloomberg.net Dick Schumacher
The company plans to borrow in five- or seven-year tenor to repay debt used to purchase U.K.-based Corus for $12.9 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter. The funds may be denominated in U.S. dollars and other foreign currencies, the people said, asking not to be identified because the terms aren’t set. Tata Steel spokesman Kulvin Suri declined to comment.
Chairman Cyrus Mistry is seeking to take advantage of a revival in demand in Europe, the company’s biggest market, and falling borrowing costs to refinance part of the $6.14 billion obligation taken to finance the Corus acquisition. Tata Steel has the equivalent of $15.4 billion of bonds and loans due, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“Dollar rates are favorable at the moment, and they may seek to take advantage before the U.S. and U.K. raise interest rates,” said Taina Erajuuri, who helps manage the equivalent of about $1 billion in emerging-market assets at FIM Asset Management in Helsinki. “The company’s debt levels are still high and this move will help them repay some of this at lower rates.”
Margins on foreign-currency denominated loans taken by Indian companies have averaged 176 basis points in the first half of 2014 versus 197 in the six months ended Dec. 31, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Indian companies have borrowed about $10.1 billion from overseas this year, data show.
Convertible Notes
The company may also use part of the proceeds from the planned loan to repay other debt on its books, the people said. Mumbai-based Tata Steel is rated BB, two levels below investment grade, by Standard & Poor’s.Tata Steel’s shares fell 4.4 percent to 525.55 rupees in Mumbai yesterday, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index dropped 1.4 percent. Prices of Tata Steel’s 4.5 percent convertible notes due in November fell to $101.375, compared with $101.625 on June 12, according to Jefferies Group LLC prices.
The company reported a profit including that of Tata Steel Europe Ltd. of 10.4 billion rupees ($174 million) in the quarter ended March 31, compared with a 65.3-billion-rupee loss a year earlier.
Group steel deliveries rose 16 percent in the quarter to 7.62 million tons. Registrations for new cars in the European Union jumped 5.4 percent in the period, the longest streak of year-on-year gains since 2009, according to Bloomberg Industries.
To contact the reporter on this story: Anurag Joshi in Mumbai at ajoshi53@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Arijit Ghosh at aghosh@bloomberg.net Dick Schumacher
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