Credit Suisse
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Philippine lender BDO Unibank has sealed a rights issue worth Ps60bn ($1.2bn) in the largest ECM transaction in the country in nearly four years. -
Tonight’s hail of block trades includes, besides the Lonza and Zoopla deals, at least two other transactions.
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Zoopla Property Group, the UK owner of property search websites, completed an accelerated bookbuild on Tuesday night to raise £76.5m of new capital, to buy Hometrack.co.uk, a property information service.
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Five banks have lined up to underwrite a loan and bridge financing to laboratory services operator Cerba Healthcare for PSP Investment’s secondary buyout of the French firm. But the deal comes as Fitch said on Tuesday that buyout multiples have hit a post-crisis high.
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Louis Dreyfus, the unrated, privately owned food commodities company headquartered in Amsterdam, pushed ahead with a senior unsecured bond issue it had previously tried to bring in November on Tuesday.
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Tekni-Plex, the US packaging maker, launched a repricing request on a €148m term loan due in 2022 this week, holding a lender call on Tuesday.
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SGS, the A3 rated testing and inspection company, offered a nine year bond to a Swiss market in search of corporate paper this week. Books were open for just 45 minutes before the Sfr375m ($378m) maximum mandated size was reached.
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Ineos, the energy conglomerate, launched a refinancing and repricing loan deal on Monday afternoon, extending the run of issuers coming back to cut funding costs in the market.
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Credit Suisse has a new head of Europe, Middle East and Africa equity capital markets, as Nick Williams is moving to another job at the bank in New York.
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German building materials maker Xella has cancelled a proposed €350m high yield bond issue, adding that amount to its €1.15bn term loan ‘B’ offering, which backs Lone Star’s $2.3bn buyout of the firm.
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Tsinghua Unigroup, part of Chinese state-owned Tsinghua Holdings, is considering increasing the size of its $300m debut syndicated loan after commitments of nearly double the amount poured in.
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