SYDNEY, Australia — Airport Authority Hong Kong has raised $7 billion this week by issuing bonds in three currencies — the largest-ever public offering of bonds by a Hong Kong company.
Most of that was done in a three-tranche dollar bond deal which garnered $4.15 billion, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters on Thursday.
It raised $1.3 billion in a 3.5-year bond, $1.85 billion in a 5.5-year deal and $1 billion in a 10-year tranche.
The firm also raised the equivalent of $2.8 billion in Hong Kong dollar and Chinese yuan bonds this week, term sheets for those deals showed. The Hong Kong dollar deal of HK$18.5 billion ($2.4 billion) was also the largest ever from a company in that currency.
The dollar tranche was the biggest for a Hong Kong company since 2003, book runners said.
Investors lodged $3.4 billion worth of bids for the shortest dated dollar bond, $5.8 billion for the 5.5-year deal and $8.5 billion for the 10-year bond, they said.
Airport Authority Hong Kong did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment from Reuters.
More than $10 billion has been raised in dollars in Asia this week, according to LSEG data and term sheets seen by Reuters.
Dealmakers expect about a 20-percent rise in dollar issuance across the region in 2025, as lower US interest rates since late last year make dollar bonds more attractive to issuers.
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