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Snam, the Italian gas pipeline company, and Swedish ball bearing maker SKF kicked the week’s corporate bond new issuance off in Europe on Monday, with deals that offered razor-thin spreads from the start. -
Veolia Environment, the French utility, has launched an all-out attack in its attempt to buy domestic rival Suez, as the acquisitive company looks to bypass Suez’s board in an offer to shareholders that values the target company at €11.3bn. Suez is already claiming that the move has been denied by the courts.
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Brookfield Asset Management has pulled off India’s third ever real estate investment trust IPO, raising Rp38bn ($521.7m) as strong demand covered the deal multiple times over.
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Jinchuan Group Co, a state-owned enterprise from China's Gansu province, made its debut in the international market on Thursday with a $280m bond.
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Thai Beverage is preparing to spin off and list its brewery business, BeerCo, on the Singapore Exchange in a deal expected to raise as much as $2bn.
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Three eurozone sovereigns all extended their euro curves with huge order books for syndicated transactions this week in a sign of rampant investor appetite for long-dated debt.
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Chinese company Alibaba Group Holding made its long-awaited return to the debt market this week, even as the country’s regulators turned up the heat on the e-commerce giant.
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Indian Railway Finance Corp (IRFC) sold its first bond since its IPO this week, raising $750m.
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Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina raised $1.9bn from a two-tranche deal on Wednesday.
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Thailand’s PTT Oil and Retail Business scooped up Bt54bn ($1.79bn) this week from the country’s largest IPO in a year. The deal was a hit with both domestic and foreign investors — but in a somewhat unusual twist, the issuer cut the entire international public book during allocation. Jonathan Breen reports.
