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Follow-on market drives Greece’s strongest year of equity issuance since 2014, but IPO activity still limited
Company will use the proceeds to part-fund its £218m acquisition of 50% stake in Manchester Arndale shopping centre
UK follow-ons bring a secondary employee selldown and an increased primary capital raise
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Point of sale lender Affirm is returning to the securitization market after taking the stock market by storm in early January, when it raised $1.2bn though an initial public offering. Affirm says it will bring bigger deals to market as it grows in scale. -
The extraordinary price action in GameStop, AMC Entertainment and others' shares last week is surely leading nervous CFOs all over the world to get an at-the-money rights issue signed off, in case they win the attention of Reddit's WallStreetBets crowd and can raise equity at giddy multiples. But this is like hoping for a winning lottery ticket. For firms in the most Covid-addled sectors, a private approach will be their best shot at financing a turnaround.
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Global equity markets were propelled to new all-time highs at the end of last year when various drug companies announced that they were close to releasing vaccines to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. However, with the vaccine roll-out slow, new mutant variants of the virus raging and governments striking a sombre tone, investors need to prepare for the fact that they may have bought in haste.
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Stephen Taylor, previously head of equity capital markets at Macquarie, has joined Houlihan Lokey's ECM advisory team.
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Polish social and mobile gaming company Huuuge will price its Warsaw IPO at Z50, the top of the initial range, valuing the business at Z4.6bn ($1.2bn), according to sources close to the transaction.
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Danske Bank’s new large corporates and institutions business, headed by Berit Behring, took effect on Monday, with three global client-facing divisions. Loans — grouped with primary and secondary equities and the advisory business — is in a different division from bonds.
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