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  • Advent International tidied up another part of its European portfolio on Monday night by selling the last of its stake in Equiniti, the pension, loan and share administration company, in a £43.3m block trade.
  • Most ECM practitioners in Asia are set to end 2016 not with a bang but a whimper. But even after such a volatile year, they are heading into 2017 with a rosier view of the market. Given the topsy turvy events of this year, the better strategy would be to err on the side of caution.
  • Khazanah Nasional pared some of its stake in Telekom Malaysia via an overnight placement last week, the country’s largest telecommunication deal in four years.
  • Vladimir Lisin, the Russian billionaire, has sold a 1.5% stake in Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), the Russian steel producer he controls, for $156m, through an accelerated bookbuild launched on Thursday night.
  • Shares in Bank of Ireland, the Irish lender, fell 3.7% on Friday after Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian insurer controlled by billionaire Prem Watsa, sold half its remaining stake through a daytime accelerated bookbuild.
  • CEE
    The long saga of Rosneft’s privatisation ended on Wednesday evening with a surprise announcement by the Russian government of the sale of a 19.5% stake in the oil giant to Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority.