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CVC has made two unitranche loans in the Netherlands, to Voogd & Voogd and Berning, amid busy activity in leveraged debt markets of all kinds.

Two North Asian issuers raised $608m in separate overnight primary equity placements on Thursday after both deals were fully upsized, although they priced near the bottom of their respective offering ranges.

The private equity arm of Goldman Sachs has sold the last of its shares in Dong Energy, the Danish power company, for Dkr4.3bn (€576m).

Unrated jewellery company Folli Follie debuted in the Swiss franc bond market on Wednesday, having failed in a previous attempt — a sign that retail buyers are becoming more receptive, market participants said.

Chailease Holding Co’s offering of global depositary shares, worth as much as $314m, has been covered to the full size including the greenshoe, said sources close to the transaction.

A trio of Asian firms listing in the US have received stellar responses to their IPOs, with Qudian, Rise Education and Sea all getting the thumbs-up from investors.

Empark, Vallourec and Dufry met strong demand for their new high yield bonds this week as investors opened their deep pockets.

After a successful two week investor education process, Bawag, the Austrian bank, has unveiled the terms for its IPO on the Vienna Stock Exchange, which could value it at up to €5.2bn if it is priced at the top of the range.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) this week raised Sf450m ($462.1m) from the Swiss franc bond market in the largest single tranche Swissie bond by an Australian financial since 2009. The borrower took advantage of the downgrade of a clutch of regular Swiss franc issuers to sell its trade.

Philippines-listed DoubleDragon Properties Corp is gearing up to launch a re-IPO worth Ps7.5bn ($145.6m), aiming the deal firmly at international investors.

Reliance General Insurance Co has become the latest Indian insurer to announce plans to list, having filed a prospectus amid a stream of IPOs from the sector.

Asian investors have piled into Qudian’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with the $825m fundraising heavily oversubscribed even before it begins roadshows in the US, said bankers.