Goldman Sachs
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At the end of a very busy quarter of block trades, business continues – despite the approach of Easter holidays. Tonight, UniCredit won an auction to sell 10.5% of Jenoptik, the German optical systems company, while during the day Goldman Sachs placed £164m of stock in Aviva.
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Dutch grain trader Nidera is still arranging an $800m loan that has been in the market for at least three months. -
GF Securities powered its HK$27.9bn ($3.60bn) IPO to a triumphant finish after investors swarmed into the trade, allowing it to price shares at the top of the range.
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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) is gauging investor interest for a potential dollar offering having scheduled a series of meetings starting on April 7.
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Steel and mining company ArcelorMittal on Monday priced two senior unsecured high yield bonds inside price guidance: a three year floater and a six year fixed rate bond.
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Shawbrook, the UK challenger bank, has narrowed the price range toward the top of the initial range, ahead of the IPO book’s closing tomorrow.
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Dufry, the Swiss travel retail operator, will look to raise at least Sfr2.2bn (€2.1bn) from a rights issue funding its takeover of World Duty Free, over half of which is secured by three cornerstone investors.
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Dufry, the Swiss travel retail operator, is assessing which capital markets to use to finance its €3.6bn cash acquisition of World Duty Free, announced this morning.
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American International Group (AIG) is looking to raise as much as HK$3.93bn ($507m) by offloading some of its shares in PICC Property & Casualty, launching the block trade on the evening of March 30.
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Standard Chartered has successfully sold its first AT1 bond though a less investor-friendly structure meant it was forced to pay up compared to a recent deal from rival HSBC. But investors were undeterred as the bond managed to attract a $22bn order book – the largest ever for a single tranche AT1 bond, say bankers.
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Spain this week ended a run since the beginning of the year of eurozone periphery countries raising books of over €10bn — but sovereign debt bankers were reluctant to call time on the strong bid for the issuers.
