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International tension has propelled valuations in the sector up, tempting issuers
URW opens block market at tight discount
String of smaller IPOs, convertibles come to market
Third equity-linked deal appears as ECM ramps up
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  • Last week’s shock US election result caused a rout in emerging markets, with stocks and currencies in southeast Asia among the hardest hit. But unlike in the past, this has not brought equity capital markets activity to a standstill, as share sales in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand showed this week. John Loh reports.
  • Deutsche Bank’s head of equity-linked origination for Asia is transitioning to a new role within the firm, according to sources close to the matter.
  • Bayer successfully pulled off what was arguably this year’s biggest European ECM deal on Tuesday night, with a €4bn mandatory convertible and €1.5bn delta equity placement. But although both were fully sold and have traded stably, a good number of deal-playing investors are still putting in small orders.
  • Bayer, the German life sciences group, picked Tuesday night to launch the first part of its $19bn equity financing for its $66bn takeover of Monsanto. Bayer's deal comes as equity markets are revitalised by the new conviction that Western policy is shifting to reflation.
  • The deal the equity-linked bond market has been awaiting for months has arrived this evening. Bayer, the German life sciences group, has launched a €4bn mandatorily convertible issue as the first part of its $19bn equity financing for its takeover of Monsanto.
  • Groupe SEB, the French maker of household appliances, issued its first convertible bond on Tuesday, raising €150m at a negative yield, as part of the financing for an acquisition.