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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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Vodafone has lived up to its reputation for daring in corporate finance by launching an €18.4bn takeover of Liberty Global’s German business Unitymedia that includes a second outing for the unique and controversial equity-neutral mandatorily convertible bond it first used in 2016, writes Jon Hay. -
Vodafone's agreed takeover of Liberty Global's Unitymedia business in Germany and assets in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania for an enterprise value of €18.2bn could set off a wave of other deals in Europe's telecoms market, especially in the UK.
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Hedge fund Caius Capital caused a stir this week with its assertion that a swathe of UniCredit’s capital is receiving the wrong regulatory treatment. The bank resoundingly denied it was in trouble, but the dispute has shone a light on the unclear complexity of the treatment of legacy instruments.
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The global pressure on emerging markets, triggered by a multitude of factors but most obviously a rapidly strengthening dollar, has been felt across the asset class. The most notable casualty in equities has been Turkey, which at the beginning of 2018 was expected to produce a bumper crop of IPOs this year.
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Investors in emerging market assets have been caught short in the past fortnight, with many wrongly positioned for the rising dollar. The sharp fall in EM asset prices has caught many by surprise, but if two weeks of pain has taught them anything, it is that passive investing is not a good idea.
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Avast, the Czech cybersecurity firm, closed a well-covered book for its IPO on Wednesday at what bookrunners said was an attractive price, but the stock traded down on its first day.
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