Goldman Sachs
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French telecoms firm Altice called on the high yield bond and leveraged loan markets with a €4bn cross-border refinancing deal this week, hoping that improved quarterly results would help investors shake off the apprehension they showed for the credit in March. -
EQT is merging its hearing aid firm, Sivantos, with Danish peer Widex. The largest leg of its funding, a €2.6bn credit facility, has been launched in the leveraged loan market, which is digesting multi-billion deals again.
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Chinese firm Aurora Mobile, also known as Jiguang, has kicked off the roadshow for its up to $126m Nasdaq IPO.
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Health and Happiness International Holdings has launched its $350m dual-currency loan into limited syndication.
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The euro high yield bond pipeline brought five deals to the market this week, as secondary yield spreads and payoff expectations tightened, partially reversing recent trends.
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Idorsia, the Swiss biopharmaceutical company, has raised Sfr505m ($503.82m) to finance advanced clinical trials after a simultaneous share and convertible bond sale overnight in Zurich.
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German property company Aroundtown raised funding in a fifth different currency of 2018 on Wednesday, when it saw an opportunity to issue corporate bonds more cheaply in sterling than in euros.
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Goldman Sachs has poached Bank of America Merrill Lynch banker Darius Naraghi, a managing director with the firm’s equity capital markets team.
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The former global head of commodity futures sales at Goldman Sachs, Joe Raia, has joined privately owned futures brokerage R.J. O'Brien and Associates (RJO).
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Specialty chemicals distributor Azelis offered a €1bn loan deal to fund its acquisition by EQT this week. It has pre-placed almost half of it amid widening margins in the European leveraged loan market.
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Smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp’s debut in Hong Kong fizzled out as its shares tumbled 6% at the open, even as Chinese stocks shrugged off a looming trade war.
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