Southpaw: Telecoms on M&A trail as new bank breed queue up for $8bn Bharti debt

Bharti Airtel’s $10.7bn all-cash bid for the African mobile-phone operations of Kuwait’s Zain, has investment bankers dreaming of the good old days — the promise of big fees on a trophy M&A deal and the opportunity to prove they are lending again in high-growth markets. David Rothnie reports.