The underwriters paid plopped down $23.7m to take up options for 2.25 million shares at $10.53 apiece.

New York-listed Capital Product had already sold 15 million common units at the same price in a recent public offering.

The parade of banks involved in the deal is made up of UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Barclays, Jefferies, Raymond James, RBC, Stifel and Credit Agricole.

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