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Spanish telecommunications company Cellnex’s €1.2bn rights issue has finished more than 16 times covered after its shareholders bought into its growth plans.

Barclays is under pressure from activist investor Edward Bramson to slim down its investment bank. But among top European IBs, it made the second highest amount of revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2018, according to new research. The results were less promising for Deutsche Bank, however.

Middle-Eastern payments company Network International is getting plenty of traction in pre-marketing for its IPO on the London Stock Exchange and has garnered interest from investors interested in anchoring the transaction, according to sources close to the IPO.

The Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank talks have given Europe’s FIG bankers an unexpected source of cheer, writes David Rothnie.

Blackstone-backed Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has sealed the book for its Rp47.6bn ($694.3m) IPO well oversubscribed.

Vakifbank will be the next borrower to join the growing list of Turkish credits returning to the bond market after the nation’s currency crisis in 2018.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its 2018 Equity Capital Markets Awards at our annual Awards dinner in London on Tuesday night. Adyen, Knorr-Bremse, Netcompany and Neoen were among the deals that won prizes as company founders, CFOs and senior managers mingled with leading investment bankers.

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Nordea launched a refinancing deal for specialty chemicals firm Perstorp Holding, a Swedish-headquartered PAI Partners and Landmark Partners portfolio company.

Bank of America and Goldman Sachs have launched the loan backing Triton Partners and Luxinva's buyout of IFCO Systems, the Germany-based reusable plastics business of Australia’s Brambles.

The Republic of Turkey is returning to the bond markets for the fourth time this year with a dollar tap of the $2bn 7.625% 2029s it sold in January, continuing to front load for its $8bn 2019 funding target.

Nexi, the Italian payments company, launched its long-awaited flotation on the Italian stock exchange on Monday — and investors are already eager to take a slice of the listing.

US company FIS is buying the formerly RBS-owned Worldpay in a debt-funded $43bn transaction, a deal that will form one of the biggest financial services technology and payment companies in the world.