Goldman Sachs
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ISS Global, the Danish cleaning and facility services company, has issued its first bond as an investment grade issuer after its IPO in March. The company priced a €700m 5.1 year and a €500m 10 year issue on Monday.
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China Development Bank’s financial arm of CDB Leasing failed to outshine on its comeback through a five year and ten year dual tranche offering on November 25 despite the status of the ultimate parent as the country’s biggest policy bank.
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US energy company ContourGlobal’s plans to issue debt via its Peruvian subsidiary Energía Eólica in a deal that could provide Latin America with its first ever green bond.
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The European Union will this week tap its most recent bond to fund more lending to Ukraine, after mandating banks for a deal on Tuesday. The mandate came as the European Stability Mechanism completed its bond business for 2014 with its second ever tap.
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US private equity firm Vista has entered into a £725m agreement to acquire Advanced Computer Software, the UK software and IT services provider.
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Onex, the Canadian private equity firm, has acquired SIG Combibloc, the Swiss drinks carton maker, for €3.75bn and confirmed 10 banks that will arrange the leveraged buyout.
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Chinese real estate developer Logan Property Holdings launched a two-day roadshow on Tuesday as prepares its maiden dim sum bond six months after selling its inaugural international issue.
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Bond investors are facing yet another blockbuster bank capital deal just a month after Bank of China’s $6.5bn additional tier one (AT1) with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) set to launch its own trade later this week. While ICBC is likely to lose out in size, it is planning to steal the spotlight by executing a triple-currency transaction including a record beating offshore renminbi offering.
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Verizon Communications, the US broadband and mobile phone company, raised €2.4bn ($2.99bn) on Monday with dual tranche bond issue, which it priced arguably inside its dollar curve.
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Siemens Audiology Solutions, the hearing aid maker, has launched the €1.06bn bond and cov-lite loan package that will back its buyout by EQT.
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QBE Insurance is set to become the second Australian financial to tap the dollar market for a tier two bond that would convert to equity or write down upon point of non-viability (PNV).
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CGN Power is on track to be Hong Kong’s biggest IPO in 2014 as investors jostled for a piece of China’s largest nuclear energy producer, with institutional books already multiple times subscribed on day one of bookbuilding.