Coke gives caffeine high to sterling lenders
The Coca-Cola Company has made a £3.9bn swoop on UK coffee chain Costa, with loans bankers confident that plenty of liquidity exists in the sterling market for the trade. But it's a blow for UK equity capital markets participants, who had expected an IPO.
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