Spain
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Spanish gas distribution company, NorteGas Energía Distribución, was the only investment grade corporate bond issuer in the euro market on Thursday. Its debut deal was a €1.3bn five year and 10 year dual tranche offering. -
Societe Generale has hired Francisco Sottomayor as its head of global markets for Spain and Portugal.
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The Cover's 11th annual covered bond awards took place this year at Casa Llotja de Mar in Barcelona on Thursday, September 14. The awards reflected the judgment of more than 600 market participants, including over 300 investors, who reported buying €150bn covered bonds in the past 12 months.
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Lone Star Funds, the US private equity group, has completed the first selldown of shares in Neinor Homes, the Spanish property developer, since its €775m IPO in March, and managed to sell a whopping 27% stake.
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On Monday, Japanese brewer Asahi Group brought the fourth European bond issue by a beer producer in Europe in 2017. The €1.2bn dual tranche offering was the largest of four new issues in the euro corporate bond market, all of which were rated triple-B and paid double digit new issue premiums.
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Telefónica printed the largest single tranche of the day on Tuesday, with a €1.25bn deal with a January 2028 maturity. Despite competing with three other corporate bond deals in the euro market, the deal built a €3bn order book and was printed with a single digit new issue premium.
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On Wednesday, Spanish electricity utility Iberdrola became the third corporate issuer in a week to print a green bond in euros. The €750m 10 year deal took the total corporate green bonds issued since the summer break to €1.95bn.
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Imperial Brands, the UK tobacco company, sold a 10% stake in Logista, the Spanish wholesale deliveries company, on Wednesday evening through an accelerated bookbuild led by Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.
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Liberbank, the Spanish retail banking group, has announced a €500m rights issue to improve its coverage of nonperforming assets (NPA) and to boost its capital ratio.
