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Timing is key as UniCredit comes into frame as possible Commerzbank buyer

UniCredit will seek to ensure it hits its 2019 financial targets before going ahead with a bid for Germany’s Commerzbank, if the latter’s talks with Deutsche Bank collapse.

  • By David Rothnie, Jasper Cox
  • 04 Apr 2019
A report in the Financial Times on Thursday that UniCredit was waiting in the wings with a multi-billion bid came as no surprise. Speculation that the Italian bank would make a play for Commerzbank has been circulating for almost two years, but UniCredit’s chief executive Jean ...

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Bond Comments

All International Bonds

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 JPMorgan 135,414.03 562 8.27%
2 Citi 128,055.36 503 7.82%
3 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 106,567.48 424 6.50%
4 Barclays 102,724.49 401 6.27%
5 Deutsche Bank 83,239.76 333 5.08%

Bookrunners of All Syndicated Loans EMEA

Rank Lead Manager Amount $m No of issues Share %
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1 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 11,525.35 30 6.99%
2 UniCredit 8,872.38 48 5.38%
3 BNP Paribas 8,684.90 48 5.27%
4 Deutsche Bank 8,298.69 30 5.04%
5 Commerzbank Group 8,007.20 41 4.86%

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1 Morgan Stanley 4,430.39 19 11.07%
2 Goldman Sachs 4,006.06 15 10.01%
3 Citi 3,572.77 22 8.93%
4 JPMorgan 2,809.08 19 7.02%
5 UBS 2,281.21 12 5.70%