Jefferies LLC top stories

• People moves in brief

  Diamond hires ex-colleague at Atlas — Salorio leaves DCM head vacancy at Soc Gen — Forese to retire from Citi

  • 11 Apr 2019

• Frustration in Europe’s levfin market as Berry triumphs in RPC acquisition

  

  News that UK plastic packaging producer RPC’s board had approved the bid of US rival Berry Global Group has been met with disappointment in Europe’s leveraged finance market, which had been gearing up to finance a £3.32bn leveraged buyout of RPC by US private equity firm Apollo.

  • 11 Mar 2019

• Stada seeks €1.5bn of debt to finish LBO

  

  Private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven are financing their purchase of a further 28.3% stake in Stada Arzneimittel, the German pharmaceutical group, in the euro leveraged finance markets this week, and are having to contend with investors who are in a risk-averse mood.

  • 27 Nov 2018

• Jefferies adds two more to EM hiring spree

  

  Jefferies' drive to build its EMEA emerging markets business took another step forward this week, with the hiring of two research analysts, supporting a trading business that's been put together over the past two years. The US bank is rumoured to have its eyes on the primary markets next.

  • 02 Oct 2018

• Vannin Capital plots path to London Stock Exchange

  

  UK legal finance firm Vannin Capital plans to go public in the autumn, having filed an intention to float document in London on Monday.

  • 10 Sep 2018