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Goldman Sachs

  • The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €2.8bn of new bond offerings this week, including a sub-benchmark sized note from Delaware’s Kronos International on Monday.
  • After months of preparation, one of this year's most highly anticipated European IPOs got going on Monday, when Pirelli, the 145-year old Italian tyre maker, announced its intention to float on Borsa Italiana.
  • AK Medical Holdings is reviving its Hong Kong IPO, filing draft documents for the second time after its initial attempt in April last year proved fruitless.
  • Rating: Aa1/AA+/AA+
  • The European leveraged finance market is set to contend with loan deals approaching €4bn for the start of September. Over half of that is for the German pharmaceutical firm Stada — a deal that could help make funding more expensive for everyone else, writes Victor Jimenez.
  • Europe’s equity block trade market made an impeccable start to its autumn season on Wednesday night, when two repeat sellers brought trades in familiar, recently floated stocks, and both found strong demand.
  • Public sector issuers navigated a choppy start to the week to print strong dollar trades, but some SSA bankers worry that the problems that brought that early volatility are far from resolved.
  • Japan Finance Organization for Municipalities breezed through a short dated dollar trade on Thursday, picking up a more than doubly subscribed book at what bankers away from the trade put at a low single digits concession.
  • Best, a logistics firm backed by Alibaba, started pre-marketing its $1bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, as a clutch of Chinese issuers also filed listing applications in the US.
  • Goldman Sachs is soon to close a block trade of its Dong Energy shares, its third sale since the IPO, with price guidance standing at Dkr320 to Dkr322 a share.
  • SSA
    A pair of issuers sold high quality euro deals into an eager market on Wednesday, drawing praise from onlookers for impressive books.
  • Kommunalbanken made what bankers away from the trade described as an “excellent” choice of tenor with a dollar benchmark on Wednesday as it tightened pricing from guidance — something that not every issuer has been able to achieve in the currency over the last two weeks. Meanwhile, a Japanese issuer mandated for a trade that bankers expect to go well despite geopolitical tensions in Asia.