Goldman Sachs
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China Railway Signal & Communication Corp (CRSC) hit the road for its HK$14.00bn ($1.81bn) IPO in Hong Kong on July 27, launching the trade with a covered book and putting half of the offering in the hands of a whopping 16 cornerstone investors. -
Apple made its debut in the sterling market on Friday, targeting long maturities of 14 and 27 years as it tapped its fifth funding currency since returning to the bond markets in 2014 following a long absence.
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Two Chinese issuers in the commodities sector – China Oilfield Services (COSL) and China Minmetals Corp – launched bookbuilding for dollar bonds on July 23. But there was little concern about the competition as the borrowers only looking to raise $1bn each and bankers were confident about the amount of liquidity in the market.
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The European high yield market this week saw towering deals like SoftBank’s $4.5bn and Synlab’s €1.1bn, but investors also found a place in their portfolios for smaller notes.
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Bluefield Partners, the UK investment adviser focused on solar power infrastructure, is pressing on with its bid to float a fund, Bluefield European Solar Fund, despite the failure of a similar deal today.
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European corporate and fund services provider Vistra allocated its $700m acquisition loan on Tuesday afternoon, having marketed the deal in one of levfin’s most volatile fortnights.
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A consortium of long term investors is to buy 100% of LeasePlan Corp, the Dutch car fleet management business, funding the deal in part by issuing a €480m mandatory convertible bond.
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RWE, the German power company, sold its second hybrid capital bond of 2015 on Thursday — unusually choosing the Eurodollar market — to garner demand from yield-hungry investors in Asia and Switzerland.
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Goldman Sachs is out of the running for the IPO of ABN Amro, according to a banker still competing for the deal. That leaves six banks still in the race.
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The FIG market cranked into life on Monday with Goldman Sachs’ €2.5bn dual tranche offering proving there is demand at both the long and short ends of the curve.
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In what was hailed as a momentous, perhaps record breaking, week in high yield finance, Japanese telecoms operator SoftBank took the crown by raising the year’s biggest Asian offshore high yield deal, writes Victor Jimenez.
