Morgan Stanley
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Equity block trading in Emea reopened on Wednesday evening with a €114m sale of stock in Parques Reunidos, the Spanish leisure park operator that was one of the poorly performing IPOs of last year. But surprisingly, other deals have not appeared. -
GlobalCapital is saddened to report that Romain Etienne, a FIG syndicate banker at Morgan Stanley, died suddenly this week. We would like to pass on our condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
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China’s WuXi BioLogics is looking south of the border to Hong Kong to go public, preparing an IPO that could raise $300m, according to a banker close to the deal.
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Arle Capital Partners reopened the equity block trade market in Emea for 2017 on Wednesday evening by offering a €114m block of shares in Parques Reunidos, the Spanish leisure park operator.
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KfW and Ireland brought euro deals on Wednesday at the very top end of size expectations, alleviating a little of the pressure on what is set to be an extremely busy year in the currency. The trades came the same day as Municipality Finance mandated for a euro benchmark and a request for proposals came from the European Financial Stability Facility.
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India’s two main stock exchanges are set to start 2017 on a positive note, with Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) likely to launch a $200m deal this month and National Stock Exchange (NSE) bringing a jumbo $1bn IPO in the second quarter.
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Volvo Cars, the Swedish car company owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding of China, has raised Skr5bn ($530m) in a private placement of preference shares, which might be converted to listed shares if Volvo completes an IPO.
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Australian casino tycoon James Packer sold his stake in Melco Crown Entertainment, his Asian joint venture with Hong Kong magnate Stanley Ho, in a $669.9m overnight bookbuild on Thursday.
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Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Argentine airport operator, is looking to return to bond markets in 2017 with a 10 year deal of up to $400m.
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Meitu, creator of the popular Chinese selfie editing app, failed to live up to its promise when the stock debuted on Thursday in Hong Kong, shedding as much as 2%.
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CriteriaCaixa Holding, the unlisted holding company, sold another slice of CaixaBank in a €315m block trade on Tuesday night that took it a step closer to its long term goal of holding just 40% of the Barcelona-based lender.
