Momentum is growing for the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to have a strong green thrust, as the UK’s mini-Budget and comments by European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde made clear this week. Capital
Weihai City Commercial Bank has bagged HK$2.9bn ($374.2m) after pricing its IPO at the bottom of the marketed range, according to a source close to the deal.
Chinese companies Simcere Pharmaceutical Group and First Service Holdings have started testing investor appetite for their Hong Kong IPOs.
Growers Edge Financial has raked in $40m for its Series B round to help it to grow into new markets in the US.
Senso, an AI platform helping financial institutions improve client retention, has reportedly bagged $3m in its pre-Series A round.
Arlington Capital Partners has acquired J&J Worldwide Services. This buy is Arlington’s fourth investment for its fifth fund which closed in June 2019 with $1.7 billion of capital. Austin-based J&J Worldwide Services is an outsourced
Sonoma Brands has acquired Chef’s Cut Real Jerky. This buy follows Sonoma’s May acquisition of jerky maker KRAVE Pure Foods from Amplify Snack Brands, a business unit of The Hershey Company. Chef’s Cut’s product line
KKR has partnered with William “Dan” Daniel to seek and acquire industrial business headquartered in the United States. Mr. Daniel was the executive vice president of Danaher from 2008 through March 2020. Danaher designs, manufactures
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has announced a management succession plan that names Matthew Frankel and Michael Weinberg as managing partners. LLCP was founded in 1984 and its co-founders – Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman
Japanese duo Mizuho and Nomura both hit the market with new issues on Monday as the primary market re-opened on a positive note following the July 4 holiday weekend.
Credit Suisse has made a handful of senior changes to its financing group in Asia Pacific.
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Philip Hertlein, the former head of SSA origination and syndication at LBBW, has joined BNP Paribas’s public sector debt capital markets desk.
A European Union recovery fund proposal is expected to be presented to a summit of European leaders on July 17-18. Its size is to remain unchanged from a proposed €500bn of grants and €250bn of
Following the sale of its third syndication of the year this week — a €3bn inflation-linked bond — France does not expect to bring any more public benchmarks in 2020.
Bohai Bank wrapped up a billion-dollar-plus Hong Kong IPO this week. The issuer, one of China’s last remaining joint-stock commercial banks to go public, rode the tail end of a hot period for the city’s
Bitė, a mobile, broadband and pay-TV firm in the Baltic region, and a portfolio company of Providence Private Equity, priced a dividend recap and refinancing of its whole capital structure this week, funded by a
