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  • ABG Sundal Collier and Goldman Sachs launched on Tuesday evening the first block trade in XXL shares since the Norwegian sports retailer floated in October.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch has filled its top ECM syndicate role in Asia Pacific by moving Akram Zaman to Hong Kong from New York, sources said.
  • Wasion Group Holdings, a maker of utility distribution devices, has raised HK$734.40m ($94.76m) in a top-up placement and sale of secondary stock, locking in gains from the rally that gripped Hong Kong’s stock market since last month.
  • Far East Horizon has been at the centre of second sell down in less than a month, with KKR offloading shares via a HK$1.54bn ($199m) block trade on the evening of May 4. While orders were aplenty, they were small in size given the Hong Kong-listed stock’s recent run-up in value.
  • 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. Their willingness to be cut-throat on fees and a higher risk tolerance have allowed them to thrive in Asia’s ultra-competitive ECM landscape.
  • Equity block trade activity was fairly subdued this week in Europe, by recent standards, but there were two interesting trades, in Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios, a Spanish property asset manager, and Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil company active in Africa.