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  • Equity capital markets are bracing for an influx of Russian IPOs in the autumn, following a slight easing of tensions between the US and Russia. However, not only is the threat of further sanctions still present, but Russian IPO candidates will also be heading into an increasingly crowded and difficult market, writes Aidan Gregory.
  • The possible flotation of a Russian hospitals group is being billed as a revival of the country’s IPO market, with more deals to follow. Bankers pointed to the recent US-Russian summit in Switzerland as cause for optimism but investors should remain as sceptical as they appear to be about the rest of the IPO market.
  • As EU sanctions on Belarus sovereign take effect this week, market players told GloblalCapital’s sister title GlobalMarkets that the measures may simply push the former Soviet state closer to Russia and further from the West.
  • The arrival of a new president of the EBRD has not pointed to any change in the bank’s frosty relationship with Russia, which economists believe faces a depressing outlook for economic growth.
  • Natasha Harrison, the heir apparent to fabled law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, told GlobalCapital that while she was not expecting a collapse in corporate credit coming out of the coronavirus, there will be big opportunities for sophisticated distressed debt investors.
  • Following release after his imprisonment for contempt of court, Rizwan Hussain has launched a new attack on legacy RMBS transactions managed by Bluestone Mortgages, purporting to have taken over as a director of the SPV and attempting to replace crucial transaction parties with his own entities. Whether he has authority to do so is not yet clear.