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Sirius Minerals completed an $855m equity financing on Wednesday, for the first stage of its plan to build a fertiliser mine in a National Park in North Yorkshire. Priced on Thursday morning, the $400m convertible bond — too risky for many conventional investors — is already trading in the money.

Leveraged buyout activity in Central and Eastern Europe is gaining momentum, driven by a few jumbo deals pushing for terms and pricing more commonly seen in Western European markets. For some local banks, the conditions are too tough to compete.

This was the week high yield borrowers in sterling came out of the Brexit shadows to face a market ridden with political tensions — what they found was hungry, but sober, investors.

After three years of arduous development by the International Finance Corporation, the first 'forests bond' hit screens on Monday, and the issuer hopes to come back for more.

South Korea is in the midst of a serious political scandal that could threaten the president, but it seems to have had little impact on the IPOs of Clio Cosmetics Co and Doosan Bobcat.

Hydropower firm China Yangtze Power Co debuted in the equity-linked bond market this week, raising $521.9m with a dual currency exchangeable bond — a product rarely seen in Asia. The liquid nature of the underlying stock and the credit quality of the issuer helped reel in demand, writes Jonathan Breen.

Into a gloomy equity capital market where the expected line-up of deals has been decimated by investor risk-aversion, Sirius Minerals today launched a rare and challenging transaction, combining a capital increase and convertible bond that amount to a $940m project financing for a potash mine in the north of England.

Italy’s bottle top maker Guala Closures on Tuesday began roadshowing for a new deal to refinance all of its high yield bond debt as the market’s pipeline accelerates before the US elections.

On Wednesday, UK financial software firm Misys pulled the $1.5bn refinancing it had been marketing as part of its planned IPO, having dropped the share sale last week.

Gazprom has picked four banks to arrange a roadshow as bankers debated whether the state controlled giant is paying up or cashing in by planning a bond in euros.

GDS Holdings received a thumping response from investors for its $192.5m Nasdaq IPO, but priced it below the initial range to capture long-only demand and a higher-quality book.

On Wednesday morning, Sirius Minerals, the company seeking to build a new potash mine in North Yorkshire, launched a bold $940m equity capital increase and convertible bond to finance stage one of the project.