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  • Far East Horizon has been at the centre of its second selldown in less than a month, with KKR offloading shares via a HK$1.54bn ($199m) block trade on the evening of May 4. While there were plenty of orders, they were small in size because of the Hong Kong-listed stock’s recent run-up in value.
  • Brightoil Petroleum is making a second attempt at raising funds via a top-up placement of shares, opening bookbuilding for a HK$1.046bn ($135m) deal on the evening of May 7. The company has taken a different tack this time round, launching a bigger deal with not only a fixed price but with also just one bookrunner at the helm.
  • China’s investment banks have leapt up the rankings in Asia ex-Japan’s equity capital market, even as some rivals beat a hasty retreat from the region, writes John Loh.
  • As block trade bankers had predicted, the fireworks are starting again as companies emerge from blackouts. Five deals totalling €2.8bn were in the market on Wednesday night, but there were no auctions: all of them were mandated trades, leaving banks away from the action with nothing to bid on.
  • Haniel launched on Wednesday evening a combined sale of Metro shares and notes exchangeable into Metro shares, in an overnight deal that could total €1bn and was set to tap heavily into Europe’s increasing trend toward negative yields.
  • China Water Affairs Group cancelled plans to raise as much as HK$805m ($104m) via a placement of shares, after launching the transaction to investors on the evening of May 5.