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After a quiet start to European block trade activity in the week after Easter, deals began in earnest this week, with five substantial selldowns of companies floated in the past two years, and then a €198m trade in Abertis on Thursday evening.
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UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan are tonight selling a 1.34% stake in Abertis Infraestructuras, the Spanish construction and concessions company, to hedge a derivative transaction with Obrascon Huarte Lain.
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Pennon Group, the UK water, sewerage and waste management company, raised £100.3m on Thursday with a 3% equity capital increase to finance the acquisition of Bournemouth Water.
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The Hong Kong ECM market is on fire, with block deals notching up impressive volumes of $2.1bn in just the first half of April. Opportunistic sell-downs have been made in droves with banks desperately scouring the market for more transactions, as they face sellers taking different approaches to the stock rally, writes Rashmi Kumar.
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Private equity firm Carlyle has raised HK$3.29bn ($424m) by selling all of its shares in Haier Electronics Group, through a block deal that materialised after bankers spent nearly two weeks wooing the seller.
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Great Eastern Holdings raised HK$4.30bn ($555m) via a selldown of its stake in New China Life Insurance this week, lighting up Hong Kong’s equity capital market with the city’s second largest block trade so far this year.