Commerzbank
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Books closed on the IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, on Thursday lunchtime, with the base deal valued at €3.65bn and the company at €28bn. -
The day after a jumbo corporate bond issue is often a quiet one for new issuance as investors digest their allocations and assess the impact on secondary spreads. But after Sanofi's €8bn offering on Wednesday, Thursday was another bumper day.
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The IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, is covered throughout its revised price range, according to a banker involved in the transaction.
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After a reasonable wait, investors are starting to see the more frequent investment grade corporate bond issuers return to the market. On Tuesday, French materials company Saint-Gobain and French telecoms operator Orange sold benchmark deals and UK media company WPP sold a dual-tranche issue.
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Credito Valtellinese, the Lombard bank which is raising capital to meet requirements of the European Central Bank, has announced that investors have taken 83% of its pre-emptive rights issue, with several firms anchoring the deal.
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China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) enlisted the help of 18 lead managers to sell a six tranche bond in two currencies on Wednesday.
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China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) has raised $6.4bn from a six-tranche transaction in euros and dollars to refinance debt taken for Syngenta’s acquisition. The issuer was willing to pay up to take more on the long end of the curve, with the juicy premium summoning a book of more than $15bn at its peak.
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The European Investment Bank printed a €5bn 10 year benchmark on Wednesday — the second largest deal of the year from a non-sovereign SSA issuer — dispelling any lingering concerns over the market’s reaction to the Italian election result.
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Abu Dhabi-based Union National Bank has distributed more than 50% of its $500m five year bond outside the Middle East, bucking the recent trend for more locally distributed bonds, according to a banker on the deal.
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The IPO of Siemens Healthineers was covered on day one of its bookbuild on Tuesday after its parent, Siemens, set a price range designed to please potential investors in the IPO of its medical technology division.
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Kommunekredit has printed a €1bn five year note — but two more SSA borrowers are lining up further out in the curve.
