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Existing investors and sector specialists back logistics landlord’s push into sector as top 20 take roughly three-quarters of the allocations
Streamlining of IPO process just two months after consultation closed as the market prepares for post-summer IPO activity
Sale comes after the expiry last month of a pre-emptive acquisition rights agreement between the main family holding companies
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The US convertible bond market is showing little sign of slowing down, after another wave of new issues this week, including a jumbo $2.3bn bond from Southwest Airlines. The boom will continue, sources said, as companies attempt to bring in capital to offset a loss in revenue because of Covid-19. -
UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon has sold £141m of fresh equity to keep itself afloat until the UK government lifts the country’s lockdown, which led to the closure of all pubs.
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Equities have made a stirring recovery since the record coronavirus sell-off in March. Corporates, looking to raise cash by any means necessary to survive the crisis and lower their risk, have taken advantage of the uplift, selling non-core equity holdings. Now, more are being urged to get in on the trade while it lasts, as there are fears that stock markets will plummet again if lockdowns or infections worsen with the pandemic far from over, writes Sam Kerr.
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Deutsche Bank has regained its number one spot in its home market, but it was its traditional investment banking business that shone rather than investments made as part of the firm’s new Germany-focused strategy, writes David Rothnie.
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Hargreaves Lansdown fell in trading on Thursday after Stephen Lansdown, one of the co-founders of the UK retail investment platform, sold £160m of shares in the company via an accelerated bookbuild led by Barclays.
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Volkswagen is one of the world’s biggest car companies and, in many years, Europe’s biggest corporate bond issuer. But being an A3/BBB+ rated credit with a strong following in the market does not guarantee you can refinance a €200bn debt load when a pandemic shuts down nearly all the world’s developed economies.
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