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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • China Cinda Asset Management was at the heart of two blocks within a span of just a few days, as shareholders UBS and Citic Capital Financial Holding trimmed their holdings amid an intense rally in the company’s share price.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has unveiled new rules that home in on underwriters, balloters and transfer agents, tightening its oversight of the country’s equity capital market.