CEE equities: Back in business

A trio of successful listings out of emerging Europe has boosted bankers’ hopes of an equity primary markets renaissance in 2013, with prospects for further supply from Russia, Turkey and beyond.

If debt bankers were the belles of the emerging markets ball in 2012, their equity counterparts were the wallflowers – and nowhere was this more so than in central and eastern Europe. For the first eight months of the year, as yield-hungry investors drove bond spreads across the region ever tighter, equity primary markets remained all but closed, with only a handful of high-quality secondary offerings making it to completion.

In September, however, the first signs of life returned to the market in the form of a bumper $5.2

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