Goldman Sachs
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China Jinmao Holdings Group raised HK$3.3bn ($425.8m) from a fixed price offering of new shares through a top-up placement last Friday. -
Market participants hoping for a surge of large leveraged buyout financings in 2018 have been rewarded already by the arrival of seveal deals. One of them is the funding to finance French engineering services firm Altran's purchase of its peer Aricent.
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The euro market has, after a wobble in the first week, adjusted admirably to a new price level and got off to a spectacular start, providing record book sizes and smooth executions across the curve.
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Italy and Portugal showed this week that any concerns about the pace of eurozone quantitative easing halving to €30bn from January were overdone as they each built their largest ever benchmark books. Italy’s trade was particularly notable, as it was the last syndication by its retiring head of funding — and market stalwart — Maria Cannata.
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Bayer took advantage of the robust conditions in Europe’s market for equity block trades on Wednesday night with another jumbo sale of stock in Covestro, the former plastics division it span off in 2015.
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The European Investment Bank put the strength of the appetite for duration in the euro market to the test on Thursday, becoming the first borrower of the year to attack the ultra long end of the curve.
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Public sector issuers rounded out a superlative week for dollars with sparkling results across the curve on Thursday. Bankers are confident that issuers wishing to print in the coming weeks should find that investor demand outweighs any of the political concerns that brought volatility to rates over the last few days.
