Jefferies LLC

Jefferies and UBS conducted on Thursday night the second block trade of shares in DFS Furniture, the UK sofa retailer, since they led its £221m IPO in March 2015.

Eco World International has obtained approval from the Securities Commission Malaysia for its IPO, which is expected to raise $500m by the middle of this year.

Chinese metals exchange operator Yintech Investment Holdings is looking to list in the US, having filed a draft prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2015, following our inaugural ECM Awards Dinner, in London on March 16.

Jefferies has reorganised its leveraged finance division, with two senior managers understood to have left the firm.

Solera Holdings, the Texan car and property insurance claims processor, priced its $3.9bn acquisition debt package in line with revised guidance, after reshaping the debt structure in response to weak investor demand.

Solera Holdings’ $3.9bn debt acquisition package has been reduced, following insufficient demand for the $2bn-equivalent bond’s euro tranche.

The high yield market, desperate for some good news, was left waiting by the phone on Thursday as Solera Holdings' $2bn of notes were said to be struggling to get priced, even though they offered a 11% yield.

All eyes in the European leveraged finance market are focused on Solera’s $3.9bn debt package, the only deal in play.

The hidden depth of demand in Europe’s corporate bond market was made amply clear on Monday, when Vodafone trounced market expectations that it would issue a €3bn bond — itself a large and bullish transaction — by raising €6bn.

Insurance claims processor Solera Holdings has just three more days of roadshowing to persuade investors to get involved in its $4bn bond and leveraged loan financing, with the jury out on whether a strong week of meetings in the US can trump the torrid time the company had when courting investors in Europe, write Max Bower and Victor Jimenez.

As Solera Holdings began on Tuesday in New York the last leg of its $2bn bond roadshow, investors in the US voiced their surprise at how negative some of its European counterparts remain about the success of the deal.