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Stada, the German generic pharmaceuticals firm, could offer leveraged finance investors the respite from repricing deals that they have craved for several months as it fields numerous buyout offers worth around €3.5bn. -
Swiss petrochemicals firm Ineos priced a €4.5bn-equivalent four tranche term facility refinancing at the tight end of guidance on Monday, taking advantage of a leveraged loan market where abundant demand and scarce new paper is grinding down margins and encouraging a wave of refinancings.
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PCCW chased away the blues in Asia’s blocks market with a jumbo HK$8.53bn ($1.10bn) sell-down in subsidiary HKT last weekend — it was the region’s biggest overnight bookbuild this year.
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The prospect of a far-right leader becoming president of France rocked government bond markets this week. It led to a rare pulled French agency deal and will cause the country’s banks problems with their own huge funding needs. But as other issuers in eurozone countries facing elections showed, the picture of the risks ahead is complicated. Craig McGlashan reports.
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Koninklijke Philips, the Dutch technology company, has sold a 17% stake in Philips Lighting, the electronics division it spun off in May 2016, for €608m, through a blow-out accelerated bookbuild that was covered in 20 minutes and attracted a large anchor order.
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It took a trim of the offering size and issuer’s leverage ratio to sway high yield investors, but French glass packaging manufacturer Verallia finally priced its new bond on Thursday.
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Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI) on Thursday sold a payment-in-kind bond to fund its latest acquisitions in the consumer card sector.
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Latvia is on course to become the first Baltic state to tap the 30 year maturity after emerging with pricing on a dual tranche euro deal.
