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Xtrion, the majority shareholder of Belgian semi-conductor company Melexis, sold 1.4m shares in Melexis on Tuesday night. The sale was part of an overall 1.7m package sold to investors in order to increase the Belgian firm's freefloat in the hope that it will join the country's benchmark stock indices. -
Fastned, the Dutch operator of charging stations for electric cars, has raised €150m to finance an expansion of its network across Europe, at the end of a wild week for tech and green energy stocks.
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SK Holdings pocketed W1.12tr ($1bn) from a block trade of SK Biopharmaceuticals, but the deal hit the South Korean drug company’s share price hard, sending it tumbling more than 17%.
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An undisclosed pre-IPO shareholder sold €935m of shares in Adyen on Monday, after the Dutch payment company’s share price reached an all-time high last week following its 2020 results announcement. But a run on tech stocks saw the shares’ price quickly drop.
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UK pub and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers has fixed the terms for its £350m recapitalisation, which is intended to repair its shattered balance sheet after the third UK lockdown forced further closure of its venues.
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If companies rushing to raise equity capital defined last year’s spring, what about this year’s March and April? Well, they could prove to be just as busy — for different, and more positive reasons. This year, companies are looking to raise capital from buoyant investors as they take advantage of the effect of Covid-19 vaccines and the reopening of economies. Aidan Gregory and Sam Kerr report.
