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India's Quick Heal Technologies wrapped up investor meetings for its $70m-$80m IPO last week and plans to open books in mid February, according to sources.

The green bond wave is set to rise higher in 2016 but, as before, most of the deals will not help the environment much. One bond that did was sold in the closing days of 2015 — but such deals are still bought only by a small fraction of investors.

The green bond wave is set to rise higher in 2016, but as before, most of the deals will not help the environment much. One bond that did was sold in the closing days of 2015 — but such deals are still bought only by a small fraction of investors.

Acadia Healthcare, the US psychiatric and behavioural health care provider, has agreed to buy UK peer the Priory Group from Advent International for around £1.5bn.

Narayana Hrudayalaya has continued the stellar run of healthcare-themed IPOs in India with its Rp6.13bn ($92m) listing, which priced on Wednesday at the top of the indicative range.

German offshore wind operator Wind MW has closed a green project bond that will refinance debt backing its construction of an offshore wind farm.

Indian pharmaceutical company Strides Shasun Arcolabs has priced a qualified institutional placement — which raised Rp11.03bn ($166.4m) — below its floor price, according to a filing with India’s National Stock Exchange on Monday.

Indian hospital chain Narayana Hrudayalaya launched bookbuilding for its Rp6.13bn ($92m) IPO on Thursday, bagging the Singapore sovereign among its anchor investors.

In the first instalment of our 2015 awards, we present the winners for Best Project Financing, Best Leveraged Financing, Best Investment Grade Loan and Best Loans House.

Dometic, the Swedish maker of refrigerators and cookers for camper vans, traded up 15.42% on its first day as a public company on Wednesday, a strong aftermarket performance that recalled other Scandinavian IPOs this year.

The leveraged finance market suffered an unpleasant shock this week, when $5.6bn of loans and bonds for the Carlyle Group’s acquisition of Veritas Software had to be pulled. Bankers were left blaming market sentiment, an aggressive structure — and each other, write Max Bower and Victor Jimenez.

The weakness of the US leveraged finance market was brought home to market participants with a jolt on Tuesday, when the Carlyle Group, which is buying Veritas Technologies, a US data storage company, abandoned its attempt to raise $3.3bn of debt for the deal.