Magic Circle firms Linklaters and Allen & Overy have been called in to advise on a bumper bond offering by The People’s Republic of China.

The country’s Ministry of Finance sold a trio of bonds totalling €4 billion ($4.4 billion) yesterday (November 5), the largest ever foreign currency sovereign bond offering by the Chinese government and the first euro-denominated sovereign bond offering in 15 years, according to Linklaters.