Southeast Asia

Ping An Real Estate seeks $300m — ICTSI tests appetite for €260m — Huifeng Petrochemical debuts with $200m

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has appointed Mark Warburton as its new head of Australia equity capital markets, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

AC Energy raised $225m from the first public green dollar bond from the Philippines, a deal in line with its renewable energy-related ambitions.

Philippine company International Container Terminal Services has turned to banks for a €260m ($296m) fundraising, breaking a hiatus of more than two years from the loan market.

Everbright Water, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Everbright Group, has raised Rmb700m ($103m) from a five year Panda bond.

Credit Suisse has appointed Eric Winarta as head of its Indonesia coverage for investment banking and capital markets.

Investors in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the US can now begin to trade onshore Chinese bonds through Bloomberg terminals. The new access channel should slowly boost liquidity in China’s secondary bond market, said onshore bankers.

The Philippines’ equity capital market came to life this week with two back-to-back overnight transactions, with Puregold Price Club and Ayala Corp in the limelight.

Philippine supermarket chain Puregold Price Club raised Ps4.69bn ($90m) from a top-up placement on Wednesday.

Indonesia’s Alam Sutera Realty nabbed $175m from investors on Tuesday, as it attempted to beat the clock on its impending maturities.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp has bagged Ps11.7bn ($244.35m) from a much sought-after sell-down of shares in Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp, according to a source close to the deal.

Hyosung Vina Chemicals is holding bank presentations and a site visit at the end of January to woo lenders with a $750m syndicated financing that has been relaunched with a smaller size, higher margins and a different bookrunning team.