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Guangzhou R&F Properties, a Hong Kong-listed Chinese real estate developer, raised HK$3.7bn ($475m) from a placement on Thursday evening in one of the last ECM deals of the year in the region.

Italian football club Juventus has finished its €300m rights issue, which is intended to strengthen its balance sheet after an annual loss in 2018.

Enagas, the Spanish natural gas transmission company, raised €500m of new capital market on Wednesday night to help fund its acquisition of a stake in US firm Tallgrass Energy.

Southpaw takes a sideways look at some of the big events that defined investment banking in 2019.

A €200m bond add-on for UK-based car maker Jaguar Land Rover, announced on Tuesday, follows €800m of unsecured notes issued in mid-November. Jaguar was drawn to a balmy post-election market that rewarded it with favourable pricing and encouraged it to increase the deal.

The US financial regulator has permanently barred former Goldman Sachs executive Tim Leissner from the securities industry, for his role in the 1MDB scandal.

Multiplex cinema chain Cineworld is betting on rapid expansion as it pours more billions into another North American acquisition. Cineworld, which is among the most shorted companies in the UK, plans to acquire Canadian competitor Cineplex in a $2.1bn deal financed by debt. This plan comes nine months after it made a $3.6bn acquisition in the US.

Ping An Group subsidiary OneConnect Financial Technology has raised $312m from a listing of American Depository Shares (ADS) after trimming and then increasing its IPO.

Banks are pushing out the last of this year’s equity block trades and there could even be room for more supply next week, if the UK general election delivers a market friendly result.

Investors gobbled up a high yield bond offering by US plastic packaging company Berry on Thursday, encouraging the company to increase the size twice, eventually reaching over €1bn. Berry is the only speculative grade company to issue a major bond this week in Europe, as most issuers stayed away from a market anxious about the UK general election.

OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a unit of Chinese conglomerate Ping An Group, reduced the size and price range of its New York Stock Exchange listing on Wednesday, a day before it was to be priced.

The Park Hotels, an Indian luxury hotel chain, is planning to go public next year through an IPO of new and existing shares, according to a source close to the deal.