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Deals keep on coming despite no let-up in volatility
Monday evening sale is latest block trade
Sfr4.9bn trade is largest European ECM deal since National Grid’s £7bn rights issue in 2024
Offer came as markets recovered and volatility fell
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  • SK Holdings pocketed W1.12tr ($1bn) from a block trade of SK Biopharmaceuticals, but the deal hit the South Korean drug company’s share price hard, sending it tumbling more than 17%.
  • An undisclosed pre-IPO shareholder sold €935m of shares in Adyen on Monday, after the Dutch payment company’s share price reached an all-time high last week following its 2020 results announcement. But a run on tech stocks saw the shares’ price quickly drop.
  • UK pub and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers has fixed the terms for its £350m recapitalisation, which is intended to repair its shattered balance sheet after the third UK lockdown forced further closure of its venues.
  • If companies rushing to raise equity capital defined last year’s spring, what about this year’s March and April? Well, they could prove to be just as busy — for different, and more positive reasons. This year, companies are looking to raise capital from buoyant investors as they take advantage of the effect of Covid-19 vaccines and the reopening of economies. Aidan Gregory and Sam Kerr report.
  • Golden Ocean Group, the Burmuda-registered oil and dry bulk shipping company, has completed a Nkr2.87bn ($338.5m) capital raising backed by Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen.
  • Two sizeable block trades priced on Tuesday evening demonstrated appetite for sell-downs after several quite weeks while companies were in earnings blackouts. Bankers expect more sales in the next few weeks as bullish equity investors line up to take on risk.