Spain
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The recent run of good news on IPOs was broken on Wednesday when Telepizza made a dire debut on Bolsa Madrid after its €550m flotation, priced on Tuesday.
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Amadeus, the Spanish airline ticketing systems group, has signed a €500m revolving credit facility with a group of 12 banks, bringing in two new lenders as two dropped out.
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Telepizza, the Spanish pizza delivery group partly owned by Permira and KKR, closed its €550m IPO bookbuild today and is set to price it at €7.75 a share, a third of the way up the original range. It will use proceeds to repay debt, after restructuring its debt in 2014.
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Spanish utility company Iberdrola will launch a new money term loan later this year, according to a banker familiar with the matter.
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Spanish IT company Amadeus will complete its €500m revolving credit facility later this week with some changes to its bank group, according to a banker familiar with the deal.
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Bankinter will begin meeting investors for a sale of additional tier one bonds on Wednesday, while fellow Spaniard Banco Sabadell and Italy’s UBI Banca are also set to issue capital in the next few days.
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Carlyle conducted its second block trade in Applus Services shares on Wednesday night. The industrial testing and inspection company has been a poor bet for investors in its €1.2bn IPO in May 2014. Exposure to the oil and gas industry has cost it 40% of its market value.
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Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación, the Spanish discount food retailer, issued €300m of five year bonds on a busy Monday when there were two other deals in the market.
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BBVA’s third additional tier one transaction, priced last week, is likely to demonstrate the increasing importance of “future supply overhang” for the product’s performance, according to TwentyFour Asset Management.
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Spanish property investment company Merlin Properties issued its debut bond on Thursday and found a roaring reception from investors, like many of its compatriots that have issued in the past fortnight.
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Iberdrola, the Spanish electricity and gas company, issued its second green bond on Thursday, and increased the 10 year deal to €1bn in response to strong demand.
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BBVA’s third additional tier one transaction is likely to demonstrate the increasing importance of "future supply overhang" for the product’s performance, said TwentyFour Asset Management on Monday.