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Booming metal prices could bring more equity deals
International tension has propelled valuations in the sector up, tempting issuers
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The surprising rise in global stock markets continued last week with a strong rally on Friday after US job figures were better than expected. The resilience of secondary equity markets, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, is a boost for those lining up equity block sales. -
Stobart, the UK infrastructure and aviation company which owns London Southend airport and was a part owner of UK airline FlyBe, won wide support from equity markets on Thursday evening, giving the company the funds to manage through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dechra Pharmacuticals, the pharmaceutical company focused on pets, raised £134m in an accelerated placing on Wednesday night to strengthen its balance sheet after an M&A wave and to give it headroom for further growth and to protect against the economic headwinds of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The coronavirus pandemic has made for a busy time for Europe’s equity capital markets with all manner of emergency capital raises and block sales being done alongside even the odd IPO. Market participants expect the pace of issuance to run on in the weeks ahead after May turned out to be one of the best months of the last few years.
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Samruk-Kazyna, the Kazakh sovereign wealth fund, raised $206.7m on Tuesday night through a share placing in Kazatomprom, the country’s state uranium company. Emerging markets investors, who have been lacking new paper during the coronavirus crisis, lapped up the shares.
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Adaptimmune Therapeutics, the New York-listed UK biopharmaceutical company focused on cancer treatments, has raised $225m to fund further clinical trials for its immunotherapy treatments.
