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  • Arthur van der Goes is joining William Blair’s investment banking franchise from Rabobank.
  • Anne Stevenson-Yang is a director and co-founder of J Capital Research, a New York firm and short seller that specialises in Chinese companies, as well as international companies looking to grow their business in China. GlobalCapital spoke to Stevenson-Yang about the dangers of trusting financial reporting from China, and steps stock exchanges could take to stifle the likelihood of fraud.
  • The huge swathe of dividend cuts UK companies have made because of lockdown has created an opportunity, to issue equity capital, for those that have not stopped returning money to their owners.
  • Equity capital markets are preparing for a wave of rights issues this autumn as companies raise capital to withstand a prolonged Covid-19 pandemic. One of the most talked about is a rights issue for IAG, the airline holding company that owns British Airways, with market participants praying that sentiment holds up throughout August enough to allow the deal to succeed in September.
  • Institutional investors holding Hammerson’s £689m ($900.27m) of private placements (PPs) are to be offered a pre-payment option first after the UK property company’s intended rights issue, according to a prospectus on the upcoming trade. Unlike the UK property company’s bondholders and bank lenders, during their coronavirus amendment process, PP investors negotiated an offer of pre-payment at par of 30% of any proceeds of capital raises or disposals.
  • The convertible bond market has played a vital role during the Covid-19 global pandemic in funding corporates that were in urgent need of liquidity as the crisis took hold. Deals have performed for investors too, although they should be concerned about the potential for rising defaults.
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