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  • Sirius Minerals completed an $855m equity financing on Wednesday, for the first stage of its plan to build a fertiliser mine in a National Park in North Yorkshire. Priced on Thursday morning, the $400m convertible bond — too risky for many conventional investors — is already trading in the money.
  • Into a gloomy equity capital market where the expected line-up of deals has been decimated by investor risk-aversion, Sirius Minerals today launched a rare and challenging transaction, combining a capital increase and convertible bond that amount to a $940m project financing for a potash mine in the north of England.
  • Global mining firm MMG, whose largest shareholder is China Minmetals Corp, has proposed a rights issue of over 2.5bn new shares in a move to raise HK$4.0bn ($515.8m).
  • Mason Financial Holdings has proposed a rights issue of over 20bn new shares in an attempt to raise HK$2.9bn ($373.9m) of fresh capital.
  • Nicholas Chia has been made the head of equity capital markets and syndicate at Singapore’s OCBC Bank, the latest of Standard Chartered’s former ECM team to land a new role.
  • Informa, the UK events and publishing company, has completed its £715m rights issue, which it launched in September to partly finance its £1.2bn takeover of Penton, a US competitor.