Bohai Bank bags $1.78bn from Hong Kong IPO
China Bohai Bank has priced its Hong Kong listing just off the floor of the marketed range to raise HK$13.8bn ($1.78bn).
China Bohai Bank has priced its Hong Kong listing just off the floor of the marketed range to raise HK$13.8bn ($1.78bn).
Chinese issuers continued to bombard the dollar bond market on Thursday. Hangzhou Financial Investment Group Co, Yankuang Group Co and ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance were among those that sold deals.
Thai oil and gas company PTT Public Co sold the first 50 year bond from an Asian corporation on Thursday, raising $700m from a tightly-priced deal.
In this round-up, the latest cluster of Covid-19 in Beijing city comes to an end, the US imposes sanctions on four Chinese officials and Mainland-based social media apps are faced with more pressure.
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Beech charcoal and natural additives producer ProFagus, a portfolio company of Borromin Capital, has completed a refinancing with a debt package from H&A Global Investment Management.
Switzerland-based baby food producer Yamo has raised a €10.1m series-A round backed by new investors Five Seasons Ventures, Swiss Entrepreneurs Fund, Müller Ventures, Polytech Ventures, BackBone Ventures and Fundament.
ETF Partners has closed its third-generation Environmental Technologies Fund on £167m.
HIG Capital has launched HIG European Capital Partners III, dedicated to investment opportunities across Europe, Unquote has learned.
Finnish mobile games studio Traplight has raised €8m in a funding round led by EQT Ventures.
Investment banking specialist Equita has acquired a 70% stake in Italian corporate finance boutique K Finance.
This is the first fund raised since Blackstone acquired biomedical investment firm Clarus Ventures in November 2018
MLM Medical Labs, a German portfolio company of Green Point Partners, has acquired US-based CirQuest Labs as part of its international expansion strategy.
Spanish private equity firm Moira Capital Partners has backed Goi, a logistics operator which specialises in the transport, delivery, assembly and installation of household goods and furniture.
Pictet Alternative Advisors has closed its fifth-generation fund-of-funds, Monte Rosa V, on $1.164bn.
Venture capital house P101 has led a €3.5m seed round for Soplaya, an Italian startup that offers an online marketplace for food producers and restaurants.
Finnish database software firm MariaDB Corporation has raised $25m in an additional series-C round led by SmartFin Capital.
Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein believes the US is set for a long recession in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic - and that business must be ready for a very different economy when it opens
Mercia Asset Management has sold The Native Antigen Company, a medical research company, to LGC, a portfolio company of Astorg and Cinven, for £18m.
US and Asia-based early stage investor DCM Ventures has closed its biggest family of funds to date by hauling in $880m across a pair of new vehicles. The committed capital includes $780m for DCM IX, its
