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BMC Software was set to print $2bn of triple-C rated bonds this week, as it changes sponsor hands from Bain and Golden Gate to KKR. The new owner was also pushing for some of the loosest covenants in the market.

The funding for KKR’s acquisition of BMC Software is set to add almost $2bn of high yield bonds in euros and dollars this week, the last portion of a cross-border, multi-billion debt deal that has enlivened the leveraged finance markets.

Tritax has raised £300m through a fixed price IPO in order to create a new real estate investment trust focused on logistics property in continental Europe.

Bio-technology firms AOBiome Therapeutics and Stealth Biotherapeutics Corp are seeking the greenlight to float in Hong Kong, adding to a fast-growing pipeline from the sector.

Hong Kong’s new biotechnology-friendly listing regime attracted IPO filings this week from China-based Innovent Biologics and MicuRx Pharmaceuticals.

BMC Software, the US IT firm, has revealed the loan leg of the funding for its leveraged buyout by KKR, a $4.4bn facility in dollars and euros. It is the first multi-billion leveraged loan deal for four weeks, after a battery of large offerings early in May.

Investment manager Tritax is considering launching a new real estate investment trust focused on logistics property in continental Europe, to capitalise on the success of Tritax Big Box Reit, the UK-focused fund that launched in 2013 and is now a FTSE 250 company.

Jefferies has hired a veteran M&A banker from Deutsche Bank to join its power and infrastructure utilities team.

Avast, the Czech cyber security company, has set the terms of its London IPO, valuing it at £3.2bn at the top of the range.

McGraw-Hill Global Education has obtained a payment in kind (PIK) term loan from funds advised by Guggenheim Partners and Ares to help refinance its 2019 PIK toggle notes, five months after it pulled a PIK toggle bond aimed at achieving the same goal.

Tritax Big Box REIT, the UK real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on “big box” distribution centres, has raised £155m ($218.31m) of growth capital and was covered in excess of its deal size.

The EMEA IPO market is fully underway again after the Easter break, with bankers fresh from the Courchevel ski slopes or St Tropez sunbeds to provide investors with some fresh IPO powder. But high volumes means buyers have the ability to be selective.