Equity Capital Markets
The equity capital markets saw a steady pace of new deals this week with a total of $2.5 billion raised from 18 issues. UBS continues to lead the field in the league table ranking on $4.9 billion, followed by J.P. Morgan with $3.0 billion and China International Capital Corp (CICC) with $2.96 billion.
China Yurun Food Group's $511 million bought deal was the largest issue of the week and led by Morgan Stanley and UBS. Morgan Stanley remains in eighth place in the league table.
CICC moved up a notch into the top three on the back of Xi'an Shaangu Power's $248 million A-share IPO. Ping An Securities also climbed up a rung to ninth place following a $131 million A-share IPO for Ningbo GQY Video & Telecom Joint-Stock that the domestic house ran on a sole basis.
Issues scheduled to price next week include Samsung Life Insurance's $4.0 billion IPO led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Korea Investment & Securities, Morgan Stanley and Shinhan Investment Corp; and a $2.4 billion IPO for Essar Energy via bookrunners Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan.