Morgan Stanley
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The Arab Republic of Egypt is providing the first big test of the resilience of emerging market debt since last week's volatility with a triple tranche dollar bond. Bankers eyeing the trade say the book size, and amount of price revision, will be a real indicator of investor appetite for riskier EM debt now the shine has come off the market. -
Morgan Stanley has appointed Simon Herrmann as head of Asia Pacific financial institutions group and Mohamed Atmani to head the region’s financial sponsors group, according to internal memos seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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US chip maker Broadcom has received commitments from 12 lenders for a staggering $100bn funding package to finance its acquisition of technology company Qualcomm.
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Petrol station forecourt company EG Group’s credit worthiness has come under pressure after the UK firm announced $2.15bn of debt-financed acquisition plans last week.
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The Frankfurt IPO of German real estate developer Instone finished on a strong note on Wednesday, despite the company having to bookbuild during an extraordinarily volatile week for equity markets.
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Indian micro-finance lender Spandana Sphoorty Financial is in the process of mandating banks for a potential $150m IPO, according to a banker at a firm pitching for the deal.
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Eva Zhong, who ran Credit Suisse’s equity-linked business in Asia, is rejoining Morgan Stanley to take up a senior equity capital markets role, sources close to the move said.
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A-Living Services raised HK$4.1bn ($524.4m) from its IPO this week. It priced the deal below the midpoint of guidance, but it was well-received across all tranches.
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A buoyant January in equities markets has been followed by a difficult start to February, with the first IPOs out of a full pipeline seeing some issues in marketing just as stock markets tumble across the globe.
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The €478m IPO of Instone Real Estate, the German home builder, is covered at its full size, less than four working days into the bookbuild.
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A group of five banks has agreed to underwrite UK garages company EG Group’s $2.15bn purchase of US firm Kroger’s convenience store business, after the equity market wobbles this week failed to put a dent in the year’s M&A extravaganza.
