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On 3 May 2024, Roche Finance Europe B.V. issued EUR 1.5 billion Bonds guaranteed by Roche Holding Ltd. Banco Santander S.A., BNP Paribas and UniCredit Bank GmbH acted as joint lead managers. The bonds will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and have been admitted to trading on the Open Market (Freiverkehr) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The transaction consists of a EUR 650 million tranche due May 2030 and a EUR 850 million tranche due May 2044.

On 18 April 2024, Dufry One B.V. issued EUR 500 m Bonds guaranteed by Avolta AG and certain of its subsidiaries. BNP Paribas, BofA Securities Europe S.A., HSBC Continental Europe S.A., ING Bank N.V., Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. and UniCredit Bank GmbH acted as joint global coordinators.

SIX-listed CPH Chemie + Papier Holding AG (CPH) has carried out a separation of its paper manufacturing business and related real estate in Perlen from its chemistry and packaging activities by way of spin-off and admission of the newly formed Perlen Industrieholding AG for trading on the off-exchange platforms OTC-X and LPZ-X. The purpose of the spin-off is to create two focused companies each being able to successfully pursue their own specific strategy: the SIX Swiss Exchange-listed, globally active and growth-oriented CPH (newly called CPH Group AG) with its chemistry (Zeochem) and packaging (Perlen Packaging) divisions; and off-exchange Perlen Industrieholding…