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Fast food franchise operator Yum China Holdings is cooking a multi-billion-dollar secondary offering in Hong Kong. It is the latest deal in a growing trend that bankers expect will bring more US-listed Chinese companies to the exchange by the the end of 2020, writes Jonathan Breen. -
Solar glass manufacturer Xinyi Solar Holdings raised HK$2.7bn ($343.5m) on Wednesday, after boosting the size of a primary share sale.
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Greencoat UK Wind’s £350m ($467m) debt funded acquisition of a stake in two wind farms from SSE has pushed the infrastructure fund close to its leverage cap, with the fund already planning a new round of equity raises to pay down the debt.
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Siemens Healthineers, the German healthcare tech company, has sold €2.73bn of new stock in the largest block trade 2020 has seen so far to partly finance its $16.4bn acquisition of US cancer care solutions firm Varian. The consensus among ECM bankers is that it will be vital to execute transactions during the next few weeks, before a tempestuous US election and possible rises in Covid-19 cases spoil the party, write Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.
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Hong Kong-listed Geely Automobile has filed an application to list on the Shanghai Star board, as it prepares to become the first automaker to float on the bourse.
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Equity capital markets investors welcomed the return of Russian deals on Tuesday night as two large shareholders exited Detsky Mir, the children’s retailer. Bankers expect more deals to come and are urging sellers, if possible, to come to market early to avoid running close to the US presidential election in November.
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