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  • Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios, the Spanish property asset manager, has increased its capital by 50%, using an accelerated bookbuild on Monday night, to fund further property investment.
  • Commerzbank took advantage of its strong quarterly results to sell new shares on Monday night to bolster its capital ratio, via an accelerated bookbuild that raised €1.378bn.
  • Rupert Hume-Kendall, one of the dominant equity capital markets bankers in Europe during the years 2000 to 2008, is to retire from Bank of America Merrill Lynch at the end of September.
  • Hony Capital has raked in a whopping HK$11.1bn ($1.43bn) by exiting CSPC Pharmaceutical and Chinasoft International via two block trades that hit the market in quick succession, ending the PE firm’s involvement in these Hong Kong-listed companies.
  • Daiichi Sankyo Company has exited India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries through a jumbo Rp200bn ($3.2bn) block, pricing one of the largest ever ECM deals in the country. An extensive wall crossing process over the weekend helped pave the way for the transaction, which saw a roaring finish despite turbulent market conditions.
  • A slump in ECM volumes across southeast Asia has forced investment banks to trim headcounts in the region, but for some small is beautiful. The pullback is creating opportunities for boutique investment banks like Religare Capital Markets, looking to tap pockets of strength in a region that still has a robust need for issuance, writes John Loh.