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  • Global stock markets have succumbed to panic in a violent and historic sell-off that echoes the worst days of the 2008 financial crisis thanks to the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, and equity capital markets are shuttered in response. However, ECM bankers are focusing now on the "other side of the tunnel" and rights issues for cash-strapped clients.
  • NMC Health, the scandal-hit UAE-based hospitals operator, has $2.7bn in undisclosed debt, taking its total gross debt to around $5bn, and an investigation into its finances has found evidence of serious fraud.
  • The coronavirus will depress mergers and acquisitions activity, hurt advisory revenues and change the emphasis of deal-making in 2020, writes David Rothnie.
  • Costain Group, the UK construction and engineering firm, has unveiled a £100m capital increase to shore up its balance sheet following a disappointing set of 2019 results.
  • AMS, the Austrian sensor maker, has launched a Sfr1.75bn (€1.65bn) rights issue, despite volatile equity markets but bankers hope that the attractive entry price and the steady nature of the company itself will be enough to ensure a successful deal, despite difficult equity markets.
  • One of the internal candidates to become the next permanent head of European M&A at RBC Capital Markets has quit to join a boutique.
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