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Both tranches price at the investor-friendly end as cloud company raises to fund expansion
Never mind that your desk had a great year, writes Craig. When it comes to getting paid, the future makes a stronger argument than the past
Top 25 shareholders and new investors participate in previously delayed offering, but some shares left over after subscriptions closed
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The advisory arm of Hermes Investment Management fired both barrels at Deutsche Börse chairman Joachim Faber on Tuesday, partially blaming him for the implosion of the proposed merger with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2016 -
Swiss speciality chemicals firm Sika turned to the equity-linked market this week to raise Sfr1.65bn. The trade was just what investors in the asset class have been crying out for in Europe, but it also served as a nifty corporate financing solution — funding the settlement of a four year long hostile takeover battle with French rival Saint-Gobain.
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Analysts have reacted with surprise but not frustration after Vodafone’s chief executive officer Vittorio Colao announced he was stepping down on Tuesday. New boss Nick Read looks likely to have a tricky task ahead of him to retain the company’s credit rating amid its €18.4bn debt-financed acquisition.
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The resilience of Italy’s benchmark FTSE MIB index to the growing political risk in the country suggests investor sentiment towards Italy is still favourable. But Italian equity capital markets bankers are understandably nervous that the expected coalition government of the Five Star Movement and Northern League could change investors’ minds.
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HSBC has appointed Borja Azpilicueta as global head of its sponsors, sovereign wealth fund and institutional private clients, replacing Alexis Maskell, who left for Citi earlier this year.
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Swiss biopharmaceutical company Polyphor has bucked the trend of recent European IPOs by pricing its IPO at Sfr38, in the top half of the initial Sfr30 to Sfr40 range, and increasing the size of the deal.
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