Morgan Stanley
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China Development Bank’s financing arm CDB Leasing is set to kick off a series of meetings with investors starting this week in Asia and Europe for a senior unsecured dollar bond issue. -
British Sky Broadcasting, the UK pay TV company, priced €850m and £750m of listed bonds on Monday over three maturities to fund its acquisition of Sky Deutschland. The deal was no blowout — one tranche was priced at the level of initial price thoughts, the others only 5bp tighter — but with an additional €400m from a private placement on the same day, Sky says it has now completed the financing for its acquisitions.
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Shanghai Huayi Company, is due to kick off three-day investor meetings this week in Asia and Europe for its inaugural dollar bond issue. It joins the growing list of provincial SOEs that coming to the offshore debt market.
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Cairnhill Investments (Mauritius), a wholly-owned unit of Singapore investment firm Temasek, has made HK$727.2m ($94m) by selling some of its holding in Citic Securities, having first invested in the company back in 2011.
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Bank of East Asia raised $500m in its first Basel III deal, managing to attract a huge order book which allowed bankers to tighten guidance by 30bp.
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The November deluge of dollar supply continued as companies from across the high-grade spectrum printed a total of $25bn in three days of issuance this week, led by nervous energy and resources companies.
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Apax and Bain Capital made their move for Portugal Telecom’s Portuguese assets this week, but rival bidder Altice is more than ready for its challenger, having signed the banks behind its bid on an exclusive basis some weeks ago.
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Lloyds took centre stage in the senior unsecured FIG market this week, drawing an order book of around €7bn for a seven year bond, as it made the most of the noise surrounding regulators' plans to implement a total loss absorbing capital (TLAC) measure.
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China High Speed Transmission (CHST) Equipment Group tapped into the dim sum market for the first time on November 12, raising more than it was targeting, with a Rmb650m ($106m) trade.
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Bank of East Asia has launched its first Basel III bond, opening book building for a tier two dollar offering on Thursday. It becomes the second Hong Kong bank this year after Dah Sing Bank at the start of 2014.
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Apax Partners and Bain Capital have made their move for the Portuguese assets of Portugal Telecom today, with a €7.075bn offer buy the assets from Oi.
