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Tonight’s hail of block trades includes, besides the Lonza and Zoopla deals, at least two other transactions. -
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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Lonza, the Swiss pharmaceuticals company, completed a 9.4% capital increase through a Sfr865m accelerated bookbuild on Tuesday night led by UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the first step in a two-pronged move to raise Sfr3.3bn for an acquisition.
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Shares in TLG Immobilien, the German real estate company, fell 1.6% on Tuesday morning after it completed a 10% capital increase on Monday night to finance the acquisition of more retail and office properties in Germany.
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After a moderate recovery in the value of many UK property stocks since their post-EU referendum slump, Oaktree Capital took the opportunity on Thursday night to sell 10% of Countryside Properties, the UK home builder, for £103.5m.
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Shares in Ferrexpo, the Swiss-headquartered iron ore producer active in Ukraine, rose 3.3% on Friday morning after Wigmore Street Investments sold its entire 13.2% stake through an accelerated bookbuild.
