Goldman Sachs was lead-manager for a €394m ($508m) sale of shares in Wienerberger, the Austrian building materials manufacturer, two months after the bank issued an exchangeable bond on the shares for Bank Austria Creditanstalt.

Bank Austria is now disposing of 9.6 million shares in Wienerberger, representing 14.6% of the company. Koramic Bricks Holding, the Belgium group, is jointly selling 6.5 million shares.