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Existing investors and sector specialists back logistics landlord’s push into tech
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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'We are all in this together' is not a view Europe’s investment banks will recognise when they compare themselves with their formidable US rivals, writes David Rothnie. -
Companies in sectors that lack government support packages are having to weigh moving quickly to secure costly private-sector rescue capital against waiting and hoping governments extend existing bailout or liquidity schemes to them. The cost of Carnival Corp’s $6.25bn package last week showed how expensive private sector cash can be, but many sectors’ prospects of receiving public money are better than the Panama-domiciled cruise company.
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Investors stepped up on Monday night to support UK retailer WH Smith in its struggle with Covid-19 disruption in a £165.9m equity raise. Assura, the UK REIT focused on GP surgeries and NHS properties, also raised £185m of investment capital on Monday night.
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A trade in Belgian-listed brewer AB InBev has reopened the secondary blocks market with a sale of a €375.35m block by South African Breweries on behalf of participants in the Zenzele Black Economic Empowerment Scheme.
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Equity bankers have suggested that some shareholders might be tempted to come to market to sell secondary shares in accelerated trades, reopening a market largely shut because of pandemic-related volatility.
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Shares in UK newsagent chain WH Smith rose more than 4% on Monday morning after it confirmed it was preparing a capital increase to repair its balance sheet after the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus led to a large drop in the number of shoppers at its lucrative airport stores.
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