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Spanish hotel chain NH Hotels was set to sell on Thursday €200m of senior secured notes with initial price talk of 4.25%-4.5%, part of an aggressive debt reduction strategy.

Busy Bee, the UK nursery and early education provider for under-fives, aims to allocate its £210m refinancing loan by Thursday afternoon, with pricing tight but not too aggressive.

Banco Popolare’s window of issuance for the tier two deal it has been roadshowing has closed, with the issuer set to avoid the primary market ahead of reporting earnings.

Gazprom said this week that it had signed three syndicated loans totaling €807m this year, showing banks’ stealthy appetite to lend to Russian companies.

Li Ka-shing’s Cheung Kong Property is scheduled to sign its reorganisation loan at a reduced size of HK$40bn ($5.16bn) with 28 lenders. The trade, which started out at HK$55bn, was heavily oversubscribed as 28 banks piled in with commitments of at least HK$5bn each.

Local and foreign investors alike swooned over the MR2.74bn ($770.92m) IPO of Malakoff Corp, as the Malaysian power producer ends a drought in large sized offerings out of the country since the middle of last year.

Europe's low yield environment has prompted a dramatic increase in Chinese issuers printing euro bonds this year. And with Beijing Enterprises and Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure raising a combined €700 ($772m) on April 29, observers are confident this trend is only about to get stronger.

Dong Energy became the latest in a string of companies to refinance hybrid capital bonds this year, when it issued a €600m 1,000 year non-call 5.5 deal on Wednesday.

UK nursery and early education provider for under-fives, Busy Bee is closing books on its £210m loan on Wednesday, with lenders expecting pricing to finish tight.

Bank of India (BOI) demonstrated this week that absence really does make the heart grow fonder, getting a rousing reception for its return to the international bond market. A large oversubscription allowed the borrower to raise the upper end of its targeted size and shave 20bp off initial guidance.

Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP) has gone on the road for its up to Rph3.91tr ($302.24m) follow-on in Indonesia, as the telecommunications tower operator looks to give investors exposure to a liquid play on the sector.

Ocean Wealth, a wholly owned special purpose vehicle of China Orient Asset Management, raised Rmb1.48bn ($243m) on April 28 with a dual-tranche dim sum bond that was secured and backed by loan repayments.