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  • Clayton Dubilier & Rice launched a highly successful block trade in B&M Retail, the UK discount retailer, this evening. By 6.30pm the trade had been increased from 100m shares to 120m, and was set to be priced at the day’s closing price, making the block worth £384m.
  • CRH, the Irish building materials group listed in London, sold over 74m new shares on Monday for £1.22bn (€1.61bn), as it completed the second of two capital market deals backing its takeover of assets being sold by building materials businesses Holcim and Lafarge.
  • HDFC Bank’s Rp100bn ($1.62bn) share sale looks poised to be a roaring success even though the deal has yet to formally launch, with bankers on the trade saying they already have enough visibility to take the book to multiple times covered.
  • Barclays is making a big push into the blocks business in Asia Pacific as it looks to capitalise on the revenue-generating opportunities available in that side of the ECM market. To that extent, the bank has appointed Jack Yee as its new head of blocks origination for the region, while bumping up Daniel Wosner to the position of head of equity syndicate.
  • Grand Titan Capital Holdings has raised Ps9.85bn ($223m) from divesting some of its stake in Philippine conglomerate GT Capital Holdings in a block trade on Tuesday, February 2. Despite pricing at a tight discount against the backdrop of a recent share price rally, investors flocked to the transaction as they put their trust in the company and the country’s strong growth story.
  • CRH, the Irish building materials group listed in London, this morning launched an accelerated bookbuild to increase its capital by 9.99%, as part of the funding for its €6.5bn acquisition of assets being divested by Holcim and Lafarge.