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  • Two accelerated bookbuilds lit up the Asian market this week as equity capital market bankers foresaw brightening prospects for block trades. As one banker said that term sheets for potential overnight share sales were “flying around”, the end of the summer could usher in a bumper harvest of deals. John Loh reports.
  • Handelsbanken sold its entire 6.8% stake in Industrivärden, the Swedish investment company that owns 25% of the bank, for Skr4.49bn ($536m), unwinding the last significant cross-shareholding between Industrivarden and its portfolio of companies.
  • The Indian government has reissued a request for proposals to manage divestments in 51 companies held by its holding company after an initial RFP flagged up problems with conflicts of interest. But with the hitches now fixed, equity capital market bankers are predicting increasing interest from bidders, writes Jonathan Breen.
  • Motherson Sumi Systems has appointed ICICI Securities, IDFC, IIFL, JM Financial and UBS as the leads on its qualified institutional placement, which is expected to raise $400m-$450m.
  • SPAR BBBEE Retailer Employee Trust and the SPAR BBBEE Employee Trust, have sold 3.8% of Spar Group, the South African supermarket chain, for R1.5bn ($108m) via an accelerated bookbuild that unwound a black economic empowerment scheme set up in 2009.
  • The Indian government has rejigged the conflict of interest clause in an upcoming request for proposals for sell-downs of companies in the Special Undertaking of Unit Trust of India, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.