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Official financial lifelines to keep UK companies alive through the coronavirus pandemic are already having a tangible effect. Shares in Redrow, the UK housebuilder, rose 7.5% on Thursday morning after it announced it had been approved to borrow up to £300m from the Bank of England’s commercial paper facility for investment grade companies. -
Centerview Partners has appointed ex-Lazard rainmaker Matthieu Pigasse as head of its new French operation, as the boutique advisory firm expands in continental Europe with a 15-strong team.
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Some fear a sorry fate for European private debt funds, as small and medium-sized businesses across the continent struggle to stay afloat amid the devastation caused by Covid-19. Symon Drake-Brockman, founder and managing partner of Pemberton Capital Advisers, one such private debt fund, spoke to GlobalCapital’s Silas Brown about the pandemic and the prospects for private credit in its wake.
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'We are all in this together' is not a view Europe’s investment banks will recognise when they compare themselves with their formidable US rivals, writes David Rothnie.
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UBS has promoted Barry Donlon to run its debt capital markets business for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, alongside several other job changes.
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Companies in sectors that lack government support packages are having to weigh moving quickly to secure costly private-sector rescue capital against waiting and hoping governments extend existing bailout or liquidity schemes to them. The cost of Carnival Corp’s $6.25bn package last week showed how expensive private sector cash can be, but many sectors’ prospects of receiving public money are better than the Panama-domiciled cruise company.
