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Synlab, the French clinical services provider, achieved tight pricing on Tuesday for its leveraged loan. That bodes well for a September deal pipeline that has swelled to over €5bn. But bankers cautioned small deals may still have to fight for investor attention against large offerings like Stada’s €2bn loan.

Chinese online luxury product retailer Secoo Holding has launched an IPO of American Depository Shares that could raise up to $114.8m.

Sisram Medical, a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, has raised HK$978.6m ($125m) from its spin off in Hong Kong, pricing the IPO at the bottom of guidance.

Jefferies has hired Christopher Dickinson from JP Morgan as a managing director in its UK corporate broking team as the US bank continues to expand its offering.

A full €2.3bn of bond offerings from seven borrowers hit screens on Monday in the European high yield bond market, following last week's more than €3bn of new bonds despite fund inflows turning negative.

The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €3bn of new bond offerings this week, including notes from Delaware’s Kronos International and California’s Equinix.

The European leveraged finance market is set to contend with loan deals approaching €4bn for the start of September. Over half of that is for the German pharmaceutical firm Stada — a deal that could help make funding more expensive for everyone else, writes Victor Jimenez.

Best, a logistics firm backed by Alibaba, started pre-marketing its $1bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, as a clutch of Chinese issuers also filed listing applications in the US.

India's sale of stock in energy company NTPC was meant to be the largest on record this week, worth as much as Rp138.5bn ($2.2bn). But the deal missed the mark after a muted response from retail investors.

Sisram Medical launched a HK$1.4bn ($174.2m) IPO in Hong Kong this week and hedge funds have already shown their support for the deal.

The Indian government is off to a strong start with its biggest sell down in power producer NTPC, with the institutional portion of the Rp138.5bn ($2.2bn) trade nearly covered just half a day into bookbuilding.

Chinese e-commerce luxury products retailer Secoo Holding is gearing up for a Nasdaq IPO that will be worth around $100m.