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Investors poured into China Shanshui Cement Group’s $500m bond on March 4 as a more than eight times covered book helped the company end a three year hiatus from the market. But the strong reception was mostly the result of generous pricing, observers said.

Retail and institutional shareholders in OW Bunker are investigating expanding evidence surrounding the Danish oil bunkering firm’s ill-fated IPO, with a view to suing the firm’s private equity seller, Altor, and the banks and law firms that worked on the listing, including Morgan Stanley and Carnegie.

The tier two market rocketed back into action on Wednesday, with Santander Issuances and KBC Group hitting the undersupplied sector and quickly building bumper books.

China Shanshui Cement Group is making a return to the dollar market for the first time in three years, opening books to a five year non call three transaction on March 3.

Ineos, the Swiss-registered chemicals company, has set price guidance on its €750m refinancing loan in dollars and euros, slightly ahead of Tuesday’s 2pm lender call.

Campofrio Food Group, the Spanish meat processor, has brought back to the market a €500m high yield bond it pulled in November.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company printed its first dollar bond of the year on Monday, managing to price it flat to the existing dollar curve due to strong demand.

Ineos, the chemicals company now registered in Switzerland, has hired five banks to arrange its €750m refinancing project to replace bonds with term loans.

Cowell e Holdings, a maker of front-end camera modules for mobile devices, has begun testing investor appetite for its $150m-$200m IPO, with its link to Apple expected to be a key selling point.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company has opened books to its first international bond of 2015, having taken comfort in the fact that fixed income investors in five Asian cities view the Japanese credit with a safe haven status.

Asiamoney is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Australia Awards. After suggestions by bankers from global and domestic institutions, we weighed the most impressive deals and banks in the market last year. The decisions were not always easy, but we hope to have picked a series of winners that truly highlight the breadth of potential in Australia's capital market. It was a good year for the overall market; it was a great year for the winners below.

Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby is putting off the listing of its automobile arm Sime Darby Motors to the second half of the year pending an improvement in earnings.