© 2026 GlobalCapital, Derivia Intelligence Limited, company number 15235970, 161 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3AL. All rights reserved.

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement | Event Participant Terms & Conditions | Cookies

Equity

More articles

More articles

More articles

  • Equity capital market bankers, still giddy from a huge first quarter, are hoping for similarly large volume in the next few months. But several events, not least among them the UK general election, could yet jam the pipeline.
  • After a quiet start to European block trade activity in the week after Easter, deals began in earnest this week, with five substantial selldowns of companies floated in the past two years, and then a €198m trade in Abertis on Thursday evening.
  • UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan are tonight selling a 1.34% stake in Abertis Infraestructuras, the Spanish construction and concessions company, to hedge a derivative transaction with Obrascon Huarte Lain.
  • Solairedirect, the French solar power developer and asset manager, began the bookbuild on Thursday for its Paris IPO, which it hopes will value the company at €375m to €444m, as it seeks to quicken its installation of solar parks.
  • Pennon Group, the UK water, sewerage and waste management company, raised £100.3m on Thursday with a 3% equity capital increase to finance the acquisition of Bournemouth Water.
  • The Hong Kong ECM market is on fire, with block deals notching up impressive volumes of $2.1bn in just the first half of April. Opportunistic sell-downs have been made in droves with banks desperately scouring the market for more transactions, as they face sellers taking different approaches to the stock rally, writes Rashmi Kumar.
shared comment list