Morgan Stanley
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AstraZeneca, the UK drug maker, hit the euro market on Wednesday after printing $7bn across the Atlantic a day earlier. The borrower is building up funds to pay for its $39bn acquisition of US rival Alexion Pharmaceuticals. -
Kanzhun, China’s largest online recruitment platform, is planning a $100m listing of American depository shares on the Nasdaq.
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Country Garden Services Holdings rode on strong institutional investor demand to raise $2bn from a combined equity placement and convertible bond issue this week.
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The family of Heinz-Herman Thiele, the late German billionaire industrialist, sold over half their stake in Deutsche Lufthansa, the German flag carrier, via an accelerated bookbuild on Thursday night.
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The Indian government has raised Rp40bn ($547.4m) from a sell-down of its stake in Axis Bank.
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Viva China Holdings raised HK$3.8bn ($491.4m) by offloading a block of shares in Chinese sportswear manufacturer Li Ning Co this week, while Swiss Re exited New China Life Insurance.
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Nerio Alessandri, the Italian billionaire founder and CEO of Technogym, has reduced his stake in the high-end gym equipment manufacturer via an accelerated bookbuild.
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American Tower Corp, the US wireless infrastructure company, printed the biggest euro high grade corporate bond of the day on Tuesday, to finance its expansion into Europe and Latin America.
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Suse, the German open-source software company, has narrowed the price range for its €1bn IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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Amazon grabbed headlines by pouncing opportunistically into the market and pricing an $18.5bn bond this week that included a record tight spread over Treasuries on a sustainability-labelled two year note, but the bigger story was inflation fears skewing the curve steeper.
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A trio of senior borrowers paid minimal new issue premiums in euros this week as Swedbank and AIB Group tapped a sweet spot of demand for bail-inable debt, while Macquarie got attractive pricing compared to its dollar curve.
