Morgan Stanley
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Hoist Finance, the Swedish firm specialised in buying and managing unsecured non-performing consumer loans, is today closing the book of its Stockholm IPO. -
Harmonicare Medical Holdings is looking to raise between $150m-$200m in a Hong Kong IPO, making it the third healthcare-related issuer to seek an IPO there in the past week.
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GF Securities is making a big splash in the ECM market, opening books for its Hong Kong IPO of up to HK$27.9bn ($3.6bn) on Monday, March 23 and offering a very generous discount to where the company’s A-shares are trading. The bargain buy has resonated well with the market, with cornerstone investors having signed up for more than half of the entire trade.
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Indian budget airline IndiGo is aiming for a listing in the second quarter of this year, via a deal expected to raise between $400m and $500m, say sources close to the situation.
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Vistra Group is looking to list in Hong Kong, hiring JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley as its lead bankers.
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Thursday’s accelerated bookbuild action comprised the first block trade in Com Hem, the Swedish cable company, since its IPO.
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Equity accelerated bookbuild activity was lively this week, reflecting generally buoyant stock markets and investors eager for paper as quantitative easing begins to bite.
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In a busy night of block trade activity on Monday, the standout deal — though not the biggest — was a 9.98% capital increase by Delta Lloyd, the Dutch insurance company.
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George Osborne, UK chancellor of the exchequer, handed equity capital markets bankers a windfall on Wednesday — at least in terms of volume and league table credit, if not generous fees.
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After losing talent to boutiques, the world’s top M&A firms have responded by promoting their brightest and best. About time too, writes David Rothnie
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Morgan Stanley is set to lose a well-known senior trader from its London operation, according to market sources.
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South Korea’s Cowell e Holdings opened bookbuilding for its Hong Kong IPO of HK$1.196bn ($154m) on March 17, with healthy indications coming from prospective investors ahead of the trade’s launch.
