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  • India’s government has kicked off a plan to offload its minority stakes in 51 listed and unlisted companies, issuing a request for proposals to select three banks that will lead the share sales.
  • Two block trades were successfully placed in Europe this week, including a small stake in Italian multi-utility Hera that was snapped up very quickly on Thursday night.
  • Europe’s equity capital market is alive and open for deals, despite widespread fears that the UK’s vote to leave the European Union would poison it for months, writes Jon Hay.
  • Singapore real estate investment trust Mapletree Commercial Trust has hired DBS, Goldman Sachs and HSBC to help it raise equity funding to back a S$1.78bn ($1.33bn) acquisition.
  • Malaysia’s MRCB-Quill Real Estate Investment Trust is looking to raise MR427m ($106m) through an equity placement in the fourth quarter of this year to part-fund the acquisition of an office tower in the capital.
  • Tuesday night's €815m block trade in Abertis shares for Obrascon Huarte Lain, the Spanish construction company, was a daring reopening of equity issuance after the UK's shock vote to leave the European Union. But despite the deal's success, it has been followed by surprisingly poor trading in OHL's shares and bonds.