Asia Pacific

Nestor Paz-Galindo has become global co-head of M&A at UBS, replacing Greg Peirce, with Philipp Beck succeeding him as head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The International Finance Corporation sold the first SSA Kangaroo deal in over three weeks on Thursday, returning to the market with a A$100m ($71.9m) 11 year bond.

Australia surprised the market on Tuesday with a bumper long end deal that attracted a substantial amount of offshore interest. The deal comes just as New Zealand sets a date for its for its next syndicated deal.

China Construction Bank Co sold a $1.2bn dual-tranche green deal on Tuesday, becoming the first Chinese financial institution to sell a green dollar bond this year.

CSC Financial Co, better known as China Securities, raised $500m from the international bond market this week ─ generating an order book more than 12 times the size of the deal at its peak.

India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone proved its willingness to be flexible this week, changing its planned tenor and offering a decent concession to secure demand for a $750m bond.

Country Garden Holdings Co, one of the biggest Chinese high yield property borrowers, returned to the bond market with a dual tranche deal on Tuesday, raising a combined $1bn from the transaction.

Chinese property and construction firm Jiangsu Zhongnan Construction Group Co raised $200m from a sub-one year bond deal on Tuesday

Singaporean property company UOL Group has raised a $120m green loan that will help fund the transformation of one of its hotels into a green building.

Chinese electric vehicle maker Li Auto has brought forward the close and pricing of its up to $950m Nasdaq listing after securing heavy demand for the deal.

Chinese pharmaceutical company WuXi AppTec has raised HK$7.37bn ($950.4m) of fresh equity, in a hotly-anticipated tap of a new mandate to issue A-shares and H-shares.

China’s Yihua Enterprise Group Co has defaulted on yet another onshore bond, having recently extended payments on two deals that were set to mature this month.