Goldman Sachs

Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are joint lead arrangers and bookrunners for a bridge loan of up to £12.2bn ($15.18bn) which 21st Century Fox will use to buy the remaining shares in Sky it does not own.

Goldman has promoted David Solomon and Harvey Schwartz to become presidents and co-chief operating officers, after Gary Cohn agreed to join the incoming Trump administration.

Deutsche Telekom and Hellman & Friedman have sold a 6.5% stake in Scout24, the German classified advertising website company, for €224m, through an accelerated bookbuild launched on Monday night.

Vladimir Lisin, the Russian billionaire, has sold a 1.5% stake in Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), the Russian steel producer he controls, for $156m, through an accelerated bookbuild launched on Thursday night.

Goldman Sachs printed a $3bn trade on Thursday to push dollar FIG issuance to an all-time high.

China Minsheng Banking Corp grabbed the market’s attention on Wednesday, raising the maximum amount it had approval for with its debut additional tier one note, and getting away with little new issue premium.

Country Garden Holdings priced a 10 year bond on Wednesday, having pulling an earlier attempt at a deal in November. While the market remains challenging, the issue was backed by anchor orders as the leads left little to chance this time.

Banca Monte dei Paschi’s shares leapt 7% on Wednesday morning, on growing hopes that a way will be found for the Italian state to strengthen its balance sheet, enabling it to achieve a €5bn capital raising demanded by the European Central Bank and avoid a bail-in.

China Minsheng Banking Corp is set to debut in the dollar bank capital market, launching its deal on Wednesday morning in a week otherwise filled with trades from local government financing vehicles (LGFVs).

Aroundtown Property Holdings, the German residential property company, nipped in before year end to make an opportunistic grab for €500m from the European corporate bond market on Tuesday.

Schustermann & Borenstein, the German fashion retailer, priced a €260m bond on Thursday to fund its acquisition by private equity firm Permira.

China Minsheng Banking Corp is looking to sell its inaugural Basel III bank capital offering, having picked banks to prepare a dollar-denominated additional tier one (AT1) bond.