Goldman Sachs
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Bill Chu has joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in its China investment banking services team. -
Limacorporate, the Italian maker of orthopaedic implants, is set to keep the euro high yield new issue market in motion with a floating rate bond deal, which unusually will be used to repay the loans that funded its buyout by EQT from Ardian.
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Two banks have underwritten a $4.65bn financing package for the acquisition of Singapore’s Global Logistic Properties (GLP) by a consortium of Chinese investors.
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Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Greece’s comeback bond this week should build on its already strong secondary performance, said SSA bankers, paving the way for the sovereign to bring more deals before its scheduled bail-out exit in August 2018. Bankers were quick to point out that while the deal resembled its last comeback trade in April 2014, much has changed since — including its cost of borrowing.
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AT&T racked up a monster order book on Thursday, as the US telecoms giant hit the market with a $22.5bn M&A financing.
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FMS Wertmanagement was this week the latest public sector issuer to enjoy enviable conditions in the dollar market, and after a US Federal Reserve meeting this week passed without any major surprises more borrowers are rumoured to be looking at trades for next week.
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The musical chairs in Hong Kong’s equity capital market hit a crescendo this week, as senior bankers from both bulge brackets and Chinese firms took turns swapping seats. With several positions still left to be filled, the movement is unlikely to stop soon. But all this points to a sustained rise in business, writes John Loh.
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Bain Capital’s Diamond, the cleaning chemicals business, had to remove a controversial restricted payment clause before printing the triple-C rated bonds of its new financial structure on Tuesday.
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Greece’s return to bond issuance on Tuesday drew praise from bankers across the SSA sector, who are now eagerly waiting to see whether the book — much smaller than its previous comeback bond in April 2014 — trumps that older deal for quality.
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Michael Kors, the US luxury fashion company, has signed a £1.115bn bridge facility for its £896m acquisition of UK competitor Jimmy Choo from majority shareholder JAB Luxury, the retail holding company of the Reimann family.
