Jefferies LLC

Tritax Big Box Reit, the UK real estate investment trust focused on ‘Big Box’ warehouse assets, has completed its tenth capital increase since its IPO on the London Stock Exchange in December 2013.

Jefferies said on Thursday that it has appointed Tony White, one of a number of recent hires for its UK investment banking team.

Tritax Big Box Reit has returned to the market with a £250m placing and open offer to finance its acquisition of a majority stake in DB Symmetry, the owner of one of the largest strategic land portfolios for development of Big Box warehouse assets in the UK.

CIMC Vehicles Co is eyeing $500m from a Hong Kong IPO, with plans to launch the listing by the end of the first quarter, according to a source close to the deal.

Jefferies, which is in the process of a huge expansion of its emerging markets offering, has hired an ex-Goldman Sachs trader in New York.

Private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven are financing their purchase of a further 28.3% stake in Stada Arzneimittel, the German pharmaceutical group, in the euro leveraged finance markets this week, and are having to contend with investors who are in a risk-averse mood.

Jefferies has appointed former Nomura and Citigroup trader Fred Jallot as head of fixed income Europe.

The newly formed Tritax EuroBox is buying a real estate asset in Germany, weeks after the European arm of the UK logistics company signed its debut revolving credit facility.

Jefferies is enjoying unprecedented success in EMEA as it exploits dislocation among European rivals to snap up staff. But the US bank's hard-driving performance culture is not for everyone, writes David Rothnie.

LeasePlan, the Dutch car leasing company, abruptly pulled its planned €1bn-plus IPO on Thursday as global equity markets plunged into a sea of red.

LeasePlan, the Dutch car leasing company, has launched its IPO on the Amsterdam and Brussels bourses, having filed an intention to float document on Thursday.

Jefferies' drive to build its EMEA emerging markets business took another step forward this week, with the hiring of two research analysts, supporting a trading business that's been put together over the past two years. The US bank is rumoured to have its eyes on the primary markets next.