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Dätwyler, the Swiss electronics company, has signed £497m of loan facilities backing its Sfr1bn (£700m) acquisition of Premier Farnell, which makes the Raspberry Pi mini-computer.

Taiwanese green technology firm Giga Solar Materials Corp raised $110m on Tuesday with its debut dollar convertible bond, its first visit to the equity-linked market in nearly two years.

Taiwan’s Giga Solar Materials has launched a $100m convertible bond with an option to increase the size by up to $25m.

China Development Bank Leasing Co has started testing investor appetite for its potential $1.2bn IPO, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Dong Energy’s IPO, the biggest in Europe so far this year, achieved a strong result, both in its bookbuild, which raised Dkr17.1bn ($2.6bn), and on its first day of trading on Thursday, when the shares jumped 10%.

Block trade activity built steadily in intensity this week, reaching a crescendo on Thursday evening with a burst of deals including Airbus’s exit from Dassault Aviation. Also out on Thursday were Apax’s clean-up of Auto Trader shares and a block of shares in Spanish property company Colonial. Deutsche Bank was on almost every deal.

Shares in Van Lanschot, the Dutch wealth management firm, jumped 5% on Thursday after it announced the pricing of its ‘re-IPO’ early in the morning.

NordLB’s Luxembourg subsidiary issued its longest maturity covered bond on Tuesday and paid a paltry premium, but the double digit pick-up failed to draw much excess demand.

A resurrection of what should have been last year’s biggest deals from Veritas and a euro deal from Altice point to a leveraged loan market that has returned to good health, writes Max Bower.

Westpac New Zealand’s €750m five year this week attracted the largest order book and was priced at the tightest ever spread for a New Zealand covered bond. Bank of New Zealand is set to follow.

Shares in Erste Bank and Euskaltel closed nearly 4% lower on Wednesday after two block trades were executed in their shares on Tuesday evening.

The June crop of IPOs should all be brought home by the end of this week, leaving the market bare for the dangerous mid-June weeks when the UK will be holding its referendum on leaving the EU.