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  • Telenor, the Norwegian telecoms company, has sold a 4% stake in Veon, the Russian telco formerly called VimpelCom, for $262.5m through a block trade.
  • Shares in Hollywood Bowl, the largest ten pin bowling lane operator in the UK, dropped 3.3% on Friday morning after Electra Partners, the private equity group, sold the remainder of its stake through an accelerated bookbuild.
  • Equity arrangers in Asia are upbeat after volumes in the first quarter easily trumped last year’s deal flow. With conditions ripe for a strong rebound in 2017, the view across the street is that investor sentiment has turned a corner, as institutional interest trickles back into ECM after a long absence. John Loh reports.
  • Two groups of vendors exited their holdings in two Asian firms this week, with block trades in Hong Kong-listed Imax China Holding and South Korea’s Kakao Corp raising a combined $278.1m.
  • China Everbright Greentech (CEG) is drumming up interest for a $500m Hong Kong IPO, with investor meetings starting this week, said bankers on the deal.
  • NLFI, the organisation that manages investments for the Dutch government, has completed its second block trade of shares in ASR Nederland, the insurer that was nationalised during the financial crisis.