On 10 August 2017, Haitong Bank acted as a Joint Bookrunner and Joint Lead Manager on a USD500m 4.850% 3 year MTN drawdown for Greenland Global Investment Limited under its USD3bn MTN Programme guaranteed by Greenland Holding Group Company Limited.

Initial price guidance was released at 5.300% area for a 3 year USD-benchmark size deal and following significant investor interest was revised down to 4.900%-5.000%.

Final issue size was set at USD500m and the deal ultimately launched and priced at the tight end of revised yield guidance of 4.900% (4.850% coupon). Final orderbook garnered USD1.25bn in demand.

The net proceeds from the issue of the Notes will be applied by the Issuer for refinancing of existing offshore indebtedness.

The Notes are to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

On 10 August 2017, Haitong Securities (UK) Limited successfully advised Tandem Money Ltd. on the acquisition of Harrods Bank Limited for an undisclosed consideration. The transaction is pending regulatory approval to complete the transaction.

Harrods Bank is the banking arm of luxury department store Harrods, owned by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). Tandem is a UK-based digital challenger bank with a customer-centric proposition focussed on deep customer engagement, active money management advice and an attractive consumer lending product offering.

The acquisition gives Tandem instant access to a range of financial products, a banking license and revenue along with a near-£400m loan book, over £430m of deposits.

As part of the transaction, QIA will become a shareholder of Tandem and will support the company in future fundraising activities.

€38mn credit facility agreement intended to provide the Gangtai Group with part of the funds required to acquire a 85% participation in the Italian jewelry maker Buccellati.

Haitong Bank acted as Global Coordinator to the Offeror in the mandatory tender offer launched by LUSOSUAN, SGPS, UNIPESSOAL, LDA. over the total share capital of CIPAN - Companhía Industrial Produtora de Antibióticos, S.A., at a price of €0.16 per share.

Pursuant to the public tender offer, LUSOSUAN acquired 1.63% of the shares of CIPAN, increasing its stake to 87.00% of the share capital.

Haitong acted as Sole Global Coordinator in a PLN 740m Initial Public Offering of GetBack S.A. on Warsaw Stock Exchange. GetBack is a leading debt collection company in Poland. The Offering consisted of PLN 370m of new equity issue and PLN 370m of secondary sale by the consortium of Private Equity funds led by Abris Capital Partners.

Haitong Bank acted as a Placing Agent on Shenyang Heping District State-Owned Assets Operations Co., Ltd.’s USD200m 5.75% private placement of senior notes due on 30 June 2018. The issuer is a wholly state-owned asset management entity, primarily engaged in state-owned assets management, capital operation, land consolidation, real estate development, municipal engineering construction, etc.

Ownership: State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Heping District, Shenyang City (100%).

Haitong Bank, S.A. Warsaw Branch organized a second bond issue for HB Reavis Finance PL 2 Sp. z o.o. – a SPV company of HB Reavis Group. HB Reavis Group is a leading commercial real estate company operating in CEE region and on UK (London) market. The issue amount of 4,5 year bonds was PLN 220 mn. The deal was concluded within a PLN 500 mn bond issue programme.

Haitong Bank acted as a Placing Agent on Qiannan Dongsheng Development Co., Ltd.’s USD150m 6.15% private placement of Reg S senior notes due on 29 June 2018.
The issuer is a state-owned holding enterprise, primarily engaged in the businesses of urban infrastructure construction, government public resources franchise, industrial investment, tourism development, cultural and sports industry, urban land development, housing leasing, etc. Ownership is as follows: the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Qiannan City (60.00%); Bureau of Finance of the Duyun Economic Development Zone (34.73%); China Agricultural Major Development Fund Co. Ltd. (5.27%).

Haitong Bank, S.A. Warsaw Branch organised a public bond issue programme for GetBack S.A.. – leader in debt collection in CEE Region. So far the issue amount of 3,0 and 3,5 year bonds was PLN 179 mn (within 3 series of bonds). The transactions were concluded within a PLN 300 mn bond issue programme.

On June 21st 2017, EDP announced and priced a successful senior unsecured bond issue in the amount of USD1,000 million, with a 7-year maturity and a 3.625% annual coupon. The transaction priced at T+170bp, i.e. at a reoffer yield of 3.693%.

Haitong Bank acted as Joint Bookrunner in this transaction

Chinese Hunan Dakang Pasture Farming has acquired 53.99% stake in the Brazilian family-owned grains firm Belagrícola Comércio e Representacões de Produtos Agrícolas S.A.

On the 31st of May 2017 Haitong Bank and Sonae Investimentos, SGPS, S.A.. signed a commercial paper programme in the amount of € 50,000,000.

Haitong Bank is the Sole Dealer Manager of the Programme.