BNP Paribas

Cellnex Telecom, the broadcasting tower business floated by Abertis Infraestructuras in May, marketed and sold its first bond issue on Monday, raising €600m.

Leveraged loans of €725m backing the merger of French private healthcare groups Vedici and Vitalia are being marketed at a bank meeting today.

A French agency is the latest SSA issuer preparing to tap a dollar market that is in good health — although not every point on the curve may be open for borrowers wishing to follow this week.

Austrian insurer Uniqa Group has launched a €500m subordinated note, its first appearance in the market since 2013.

Stahl, the Dutch provider of chemicals for leather processing, has launched €585m of leveraged loans to refinance debt and pay a dividend.

Aéroports de Paris reopened the corporate bond market on Wednesday after two weeks’ silence, using an attractive new issue premium to amass a hefty order book for a €500m deal.

Altice accelerated the deadline on its refinancing exercise this week, bringing forward the deadline for commitments to just three days after the deal was launched.

Verallia, the French glass bottle maker, started sounding investors on Thursday for an €860m-equivalent bond to finance its acquisition by alternative investment fund Apollo Global Management.

Thermo Fisher Scientific became the first US issuer to tap the euro corporate bond market for a fortnight on Thursday, bucking expectations by grabbing a skinny new issue premium compared with European issuers.

Deals for the Kenya Pipeline Company and the Itare Dam project provided a boost for the Kenyan infrastructure sector, but these types of deals move in slow motion according to bankers.

A €600m ($663m) two year financing for China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) has been opened into syndication. Two French lenders are leading the deal and they have invited a select group of banks to participate.

An unwelcome slump in deal activity comes just as banks are getting back on the front foot, writes David Rothnie.