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Smokin! BAT ignores market fears to sell tight bond

British American Tobacco braved choppy and obstacle-ridden seas in the European corporate bond market to price a €600m 10 year bond on Wednesday — and found a strong reception.

  • 02 Nov 2011

“It’s gone very well, we had a high quality book of close to €4bn after reconciliations,” said a syndicate banker at one of the leads. The bond was priced at 123bp over mid-swaps, after original price talk of 130bp-135bp.

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All Corporate Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 44,483.98 215 5.61%
2 Citi 42,089.67 200 5.30%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 40,301.63 198 5.08%
4 Barclays 36,562.85 154 4.61%
5 Deutsche Bank 31,434.19 150 3.96%

Bookrunners of Euro Denominated Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Barclays 12,052.82 29 9.24%
2 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 9,231.34 34 7.08%
3 Deutsche Bank 8,994.55 41 6.90%
4 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 8,791.13 27 6.74%
5 BNP Paribas 8,267.11 42 6.34%

Bookrunners of European HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount €m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 1,686.47 13 9.63%
2 BNP Paribas 1,305.75 15 7.46%
3 Deutsche Bank 1,263.77 9 7.22%
4 Goldman Sachs 1,225.64 11 7.00%
5 Citi 1,134.67 10 6.48%

Bookrunners of Dollar Denominated HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 9,841.58 73 10.52%
2 Citi 9,459.24 67 10.12%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 6,345.97 49 6.79%
4 Goldman Sachs 6,080.77 44 6.50%
5 Morgan Stanley 5,699.31 38 6.09%

Bookrunners of European Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 SG Corporate & Investment Banking 8,582.70 34 5.47%
2 Citi 8,191.99 30 5.22%
3 Barclays 7,869.78 33 5.01%
4 BNP Paribas 7,833.50 40 4.99%
5 JPMorgan 7,498.03 29 4.78%