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Deals keep on coming despite no let-up in volatility
Monday evening sale is latest block trade
Sfr4.9bn trade is largest European ECM deal since National Grid’s £7bn rights issue in 2024
Offer came as markets recovered and volatility fell
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  • An undisclosed seller has offloaded a Sfr90.7m stake in Galenica, the Swiss retail pharmacies company, through an accelerated bookbuild on Tuesday evening.
  • The Restaurant Group, the owner of multiple UK dining brands including Wagamama and Frankie & Benny’s, has completed a £175m capital raising, with a high take up from shareholders.
  • Last year GlobalCapital was forced to abandon our 2019 Equity Capital Markets Awards dinner because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Little did we know that what seemed like a brief crisis would transform all our lives in the way it has. But despite the huge pressure of the virus and its dramatic impact on stockmarkets, the equity capital markets rose to the challenge in 2020, enabling many companies to raise vital capital to mend broken balance sheets and even to complete IPOs, all without executives having to leaving their home countries — or even their homes. After an extraordinary year, GlobalCapital is pleased to recognise the truly outstanding achievements in ECM.
  • Two large European IPOs reached successful conclusions on Thursday, albeit without the large aftermarket surges on deals earlier this year.
  • GlobalCapital is pleased to reveal the winners and nominees of its 2020 Equity Capital Markets Awards.
  • Shares in London’s listed airlines pulled back on Monday morning after UK transport minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday it was “too early to tell” whether holidays abroad would be allowed once lockdown restrictions end, raising fears of another false dawn for the industry and a fresh round of emergency capital raising.