Barclays
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UK construction company Galliford Try has raised £164m through a rights issue to cover the costs related to the collapse of construction and facilities management firm Carillion in January, after the successful conclusion of its fully underwritten rights issue on Monday. -
French shopping centre operator Unibail-Rodamco said in December it planned to sell around €2bn of bonds to refinance the bridge loan it has taken on to fund its $15.7bn acquisition of its Australian peer Westfield Corp. On Monday, it brought the deal to market and received reassuring demand.
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FirstRand Bank was on track to open the market for South African tier two issuance ahead of Barclays Africa, which is lining up a trade for later this week.
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Yuexiu Property Company priced a two-tranche dollar bond on Thursday but decided to ditch a potential offshore renminbi deal. Separately, Peking University Founder Group Co returned with another bond with a keepwell structure for $425m.
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European high yield bond issuers roadshowed for seven lower rated new offerings this week, leaving behind the quiet of the post-Easter recess. What followed was a vigorous tug of war over pricing and terms in which bankers and investors claimed different victories.
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India’s Dewan Housing Finance Corp (DHFL) finally sold its first offshore rupee bond this week in a deal which has been two years in the making.
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Portugal printed its first new long dated benchmark since September 2014, drawing the week’s largest order book in the public sector bond market for its 15 year deal.
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A trio of euro borrowers picked up a combined €8.5bn on Tuesday, seemingly without testing the limits of demand in the market.
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Perella Weinberg Partners said on Monday that Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, former president of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in EMEA, and one of the UK’s most senior corporate financiers, will join as a partner in its advisory business. He will be joined by Matthew Smith, Barclays’ head of UK corporate finance.
