Gold Fields takes $1.5bn demerger loans

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London (Reuters, 2012-12-03) – Barclays, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan have underwritten a $1.5bn financing package to back Gold Fields’ demerger of two gold mines and refinance existing Gold Fields [JSE:GFI] debt, bankers said on Monday. The three banks have opened a $900m loan to participation by other banks and will hold the remaining $600m as a bridge loan to a planned bond issue, the bankers said.