Sheldon Adelson to visit Macau & Singapore next week

Macau Daily Times, 24 Nov 2008

Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, is scheduled to visit Macau and Singapore next week, while Goldman Sachs is working on a club loan of up to one billion US dollars for troubled gaming firm Venetian Macau Ltd.

According to a report from Reuters, talks on the prospective financing are at a preliminary stage, but sources believe the loan would be linked to Venetian Macau's recently suspended development projects at sites five and six on the Cotai Strip.

A 5.25 billion US dollar financing for Venetian Macau was recently put on hold after parent Las Vegas Sands suspended its Macau development in a move to improve the group's financial situation.

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