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  • Kepler Cheuvreux has become the go-to option for European banks looking to breathe life into failing their equity capital markets businesses. David Rothnie reports.
  • Traton, Volkswagen’s heavy trucks division, is back on the market. The German auto giant relaunched the IPO after it was postponed in March owing to market volatility caused by trade tensions between the US and China. The deal is a key event for the equity capital markets in what has been a tricky year. It is important for those involved and for the wider market that it goes well. Yet conditions are not much better now, particularly for auto stocks, raising questions among investors about Traton’s timing, writes Aidan Gregory.
  • Investment firm Triton Partners has sold the remainder of its shares in in Befesa, the German metal recycling firm, in a popular €216m block trade.
  • The much anticipated Shanghai tech board held its first listing committee meeting on Wednesday. Three companies are en route to be registered with China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and become the first batch of listees on the board.
  • Logistics provider ESR Cayman launched what will be the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s biggest IPO of 2019 so far on Wednesday, seeking to raise up to HK$9.76bn ($1.24bn) as hopes of US rate cuts opened a clear window in otherwise trade war-weary markets. Gina Lee reports.
  • China East Education Holdings pulled off the largest education IPO in history this week, despite the mainland education sector suffering under state constraints. The company operates in a niche free of the heavy-handed regulator, which helped it draw a flood of interest to its HK$4.9bn ($625m) offering. Jonathan Breen reports.
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