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Pinewood Studios' effort to re-cast itself as a real estate company seemed pure box office to investors, who placed enough orders for a new bond to allow the borrower to up the deal size and still price at the tight end of guidance.

South Korean semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix had to get over a number of hurdles for its $500m bond issuance, but a complicated price discovery process ended with the notes being in hot demand both in the primary and secondary markets. Addison Gong reports.

Bank of Montreal was marketing a senior preferred bond in sterling on Tuesday, one day after Rothesay Life gave FIG investors a chance to put their money in tier two in the same currency. The Canadian issuer started its trade with a 15bp-20bp concession, according to a banker off the deal.

Investors chased South Korean semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix’s $500m bonds both in the primary and secondary markets, even though the borrower pulled off one of the largest price reductions on a deal from the country.

Swiss medical firm Lonza has refinanced its term debt and revolving credit facilities, in dollars, euros and Swiss francs.

Corporate bond issuers made full use of the last few days before the European Central Bank's much-anticipated announcement on monetary policy on Thursday. Despite the hectic activity of the past two weeks, investors were still oversubscribing deals two or three times.

Swedish credit management company Intrum and UK-based gambling giant International Game Technology dipped into the favourable markets again with big €750m and €500m issues .

Pinewood Studios has launched a new £500m six year non-call two bond offering to fund a dividend, after signing a deal with Disney to lease the studio’s space for the next decade, securing the firm’s income. Seen as a corporate issuer, Pinewood’s leverage looks sky-high, but the bond documentation attempts to rebrand it as a real estate company.

Topsports International Holdings has kicked off pre-marketing for its Hong Kong SAR listing, which is expected to raise around $1bn, according to sources close to the deal.

Six Greater China borrowers, including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) and an unrated property developer, have wooed bond investors to their new dollar deals.

Credit Suisse has brought in Mark Uy to lead coverage of investment banking and capital markets in the Philippines, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Credit Suisse and SpareBank 1 priced deals in senior format this week, choosing longer maturities to avoid entering negative yield territory. SpareBank 1’s €500m green bond attracted demand of €700m but leads were not able to tighten pricing to the tight end of their price guidance.