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A unit of Vedanta Resources will issue $400 million in notes to an entity under Oaktree Capital Group, as the mining conglomerate looks to meet liquidity needs. The notes will be partly secured by shares in Mumbai-listed unit Vedanta Ltd., according to separate exchange filings from Vedanta and the U.S. hedge fund. The new deal with Oaktree comes after Vedanta Resources sold $1 billion of securities earlier this month. That debt issuance was to fund a tender offer for securities due 2021. The holding company, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, aims to simplify the group’s corporate structure and ease Vedanta. Resources’ access to cash after a failed attempt to delist Vedanta Ltd. in October.

Moody's Investors Service placed Vedanta Resources Limited's B1 corporate family rating (CFR) under review for downgrade today(20th Oct.2020). Concurrently, Moody's has placed under review for downgrade the B3 ratings on the senior unsecured bonds issued by Vedanta and those issued by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vedanta Resources Finance II Plc, and guaranteed by Vedanta, affecting $4.2 billion in outstanding debt. The rating outlook was changed to ratings under review from negative. "The review follows an increase in refinancing risk and significant funding needs at the holding company level, following Vedanta Resources' failure to acquire the balance shareholding in key subsidiary Vedanta Limited that would have improved access to group cash," the report Kaustubh Chaubal, a Moody's vice president and senior credit officer as saying. Read more