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  • Linde's second yen note of the year is for ¥3 billion ($27.04 million) and pays a final coupon of 0.15%. It matures in February 2002. This year Linde has also raised funds in euro, Polish zloty, Czech koruna, Swiss franc, sterling and Slovak koruna, totalling $520.11 million-worth.
  • It took Credit Suisse First Boston two hours to place a Sfr170m (Eu111m) convertible bond for Logitech, the Swiss IT components manufacturer, on Monday. This is the third convertible issue from Switzerland in less than a week. "People are taking advantage of the current market," said a banker close to the deal. The transaction is also the second equity-linked issue completed by CSFB in under a week following the $700m turbo bond for Nestlé.
  • The IPO of Lottomatica, the Italian lottery agency, was priced at the bottom of the price range, and raised Eu200m. Schroder Salomon Smith Barney and Mediobanca, who led the deal, priced the deal at Eu4.75 from a bookbuilding range of Eu4.75-Eu6.50, but a banker close to the deal was not disheartened. "This was the first deal in Italy this year to price inside the price range," he said. The shares at the close yesterday (Thursday) were trading at Eu4.70.
  • German industrial gases company Messer Griesheim last Friday (May 11) leveraged off strong demand for diversification in the high yield market to launch the largest ever European industrial junk bond. Priced at the tight end of talk and increased from the planned Eu400m to Eu550m, the financing for the LBO of Aventis' gases business has highlighted investors' desire for exposure to sectors away from telecoms.
  • German industrial gases company Messer Griesheim last Friday (May 11) leveraged off strong demand for diversification in the high yield market to launch the largest ever European industrial junk bond. Priced at the tight end of talk and increased from the planned Eu400m to Eu550m, the financing for the LBO of Aventis' gases business has highlighted investors' desire for exposure to sectors away from telecoms.
  • Following the blowout Messer Griesheim high yield bond issue last week, the senior debt backing the LBO of the German industrial gases company has been restructured. The overall senior debt has been reduced and the new deal is receiving a welcome from the market. Before launch, the bonds were increased from the projected Eu400m to Eu550m. The Eu150m increase is being set against the senior debt on the buy-out.
  • Mexican spreads tightened by as much as 25bp yesterday (Thursday) on news that Citigroup will buy Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival (Banacci), Mexico's second largest banking group, for $12.5bn. For the first time this year Mexico's 2011 global bonds broke the 300bp barrier to trade yesterday morning New York time at 294bp bid, from a close of 319bp bid on Wednesday.
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  • * Bank of America has made several appointments to its team in Seoul, including a new head of global markets for Korea. All five join from JP Morgan. CH Bang becomes head of global markets for Korea. He will report jointly to Goetz Eggelhoefer, global markets head of Asia (excluding Japan), and Richie Prager, global head of emerging markets.
  • Lithuania Fitch has upgraded the Republic of Lithuania to BBB- from BB+. The news is a timely boost to Lithuania Gas. The utility is expected to mandate soon for a small, probably Eu40m, Eurobond in euros, or possibly in litas.
  • Oslo Boers, the Norwegian stock exchange, has completed its Eu59m IPO, with investor demand pushing the price range to the top of the bookbuilding range.
  • Finland Enskilda Securities has completed an Eu30m placement of shares in Sampo, the Finnish financial group. The 2.9m shares were offered at Eu10.20, only a small discount to the shares' previous close of Eu10.25. Yesterday (Thursday) the stock was trading up at Eu10.72. Investors in the issue were split between the US, UK and Finland.