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  • Equity capital markets are slowly reopening for companies at a time when there is a dire need for funding. However, the Covid-19 sell-off in global stock markets in the past month has meant that funds and asset managers have had limited inflows, meaning they have less cash to use in new deals. This is leading to a higher degree of selectivity.
  • Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the London-listed investment fund focused on song royalties, has acquired the music catalogue of Richie Sambora, the lead guitarist of Bon Jovi and co-writer of the US band’s hits, for an undisclosed price. It is an example of the acquisitions the fund continues to make as it mulls a fresh equity capital raise.
  • More companies will raise equity capital without first offering existing shareholders pre-emption rights, given the "unprecedented" economic damage being caused by the spread of Covid-19.
  • GlobalCapital may not have been able to celebrate its Equity Capital Markets Awards in person with the winners this year but we are no less delighted to be able to reveal who they are and those winners are no less deserving for it. We fully intend that the dinner will return next year but for the meantime, here are some of the highlights from this year’s crop. Our congratulations to all.
  • US and European stocks rallied this week, recovering some of the losses suffered during the worst equity market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis, but investors are not ready to pile back into the market yet, fearful of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in the United States.
  • Singapore’s flag carrier is planning to raise S$8.8bn ($6.16bn) from a concurrent rights issue and sale of convertible bonds to help stem crippling losses driven by the Covid-19 coronavirus.