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GardaWorld, the Canadian security service company, has made a hostile £3bn offer for larger UK rival G4S, marking the second major bid for a UK company from a North American firm in less than a week. -
Goldman Sachs has appointed Christopher Droege and Chris Emmerson as co-heads of cross markets and sponsor M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Three Taiwanese companies are testing bank appetite for new loans, as slow deal flow this year gives them enough ‘bargaining power’ to raise funds at thin margins and fees.
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Hugh Hendry, the outspoken founder of former macro hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, told GlobalCapital he sees no evidence for the re-emergence of global macro as a broad and viable investment strategy. Were volatility to rise again, Hendry says he may well get back into the financial fray but the likelihood of that is vanishingly slim.
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BNP Paribas has provided term loans to Altice Europe, whose founder Patrick Drahi has offered to buy €2.5bn of the shares he doesn't already own to take the French telecoms group private.
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Virgin Media started the autumn session in European leveraged finance in style with a five part offering to raise the cash for its joint venture with Telefónica’s O2 unit. The deal underscores how far capital markets have come since the dark days of April, when the £30bn ($38.9bn) mega merger was backed by an investment grade loan to insulate the tie-up from the effects of a prolonged downturn in leveraged credit, reports Owen Sanderson.
