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50 year paper likely after EDF’s £1bn 40 year

Electricité de France exploited sterling investors’ demand for higher yielding long bonds this week by selling a £1bn 40 year deal, the longest tenor seen in the UK corporate market since early 2007. Such was buyers’ appetite for the paper that banks speculated a 50 year note could be issued soon.

  • 17 Sep 2010
EDF, rated Aa3/A+/A+, launched the bond on Tuesday at midday UK time and closed the books less than two hours later after raising about £1.65bn of orders from over 100 accounts, most of them domestic. After coming with guidance of 110bp-115bp over Gilts, bookrunners Credit Suisse, HSBC and ...

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Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Citi 7,804.66 23 9.52%
2 Deutsche Bank 6,018.47 14 7.34%
3 JPMorgan 5,096.36 17 6.22%
4 Barclays 4,950.16 12 6.04%
5 Goldman Sachs 4,862.50 14 5.93%

Bookrunners of Euro Denominated Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Citi 1,243.79 7 7.24%
2 BNP Paribas 1,118.03 6 6.51%
3 Barclays 1,100.14 4 6.41%
4 Commerzbank Group 1,054.99 6 6.15%
5 JPMorgan 1,009.92 4 5.88%

Bookrunners of European HY Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount €m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 200.50 2 12.59%
1 Deutsche Bank 200.50 2 12.59%
3 UniCredit 113.00 1 7.09%
3 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 113.00 1 7.09%
3 Mediobanca 113.00 1 7.09%

Bookrunners of Dollar Denominated HY Bonds

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1 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 133.33 2 7.62%
2 Wells Fargo Securities 83.33 1 4.76%
2 US Bancorp 83.33 1 4.76%
2 TD Securities Inc 83.33 1 4.76%
2 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 83.33 1 4.76%

Bookrunners of European Corporate IG Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Citi 2,636.08 6 8.44%
2 Barclays 2,499.67 4 8.00%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2,343.15 5 7.50%
4 JPMorgan 2,303.98 3 7.37%
5 MUFG 2,123.57 3 6.80%