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  • Strong investor demand has led to a positive start for Europe’s equity capital markets with several large block trades attracting big orders, leading to attractive terms for sellers.
  • The Carlyle Group, a US-based multinational private equity firm, offloaded its position in China Literature this week through a HK$1.53bn ($196m) overnight block trade.
  • RAG-Stiftung, the foundation charged with financing cleaning up the legacy of coal mining, has placed a block of shares in Evonik, the German speciality chemical manufacturer, at a tight concession after increasing the deal to €632.5m. The trade is another example of growing levels of demand for EMEA block trades.
  • Equity capital markets bankers are lining up further accelerated equity sales after a series of successful block trades last week. They are hoping that market optimism persists to allow them to print trades before corporate blackouts prevent insider sales.
  • Equity capital markets investors jumped at the chance to buy shares in Nexi, the Italian payments company, as it returned with its first transaction since IPO.
  • US private equity group Apollo Global Management has completed the first selldown of stock in Watches of Switzerland, the UK luxury watches retailer, since its flotation on the London Stock Exchange in May last year.