Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT   By Gordon Platt   The European Central Bank sent a shockwave through global fixed-income markets last month with its “strong vigilance” alert, signaling that it was about to raise interest rates to ensure that ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS   By Gordon Platt   Nashville, Tennessee–based hospital operator HCA Holdings sold more shares than planned in its initial public offering in March, and it sold them at the high end of the expected price ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS   By Gordon Platt   The energy and financial services sectors were expected to be fertile ground for mergers and acquisitions in 2011, and so far they are living up to those expectations.   ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT   By Matt Greco   The European sovereign and related bank debt crises should have only a minimal effect on the high-yield market in 2011.   The main reason: About 85% of the market still ...

ANALYSIS: INTEREST-RATE AND EQUITY DERIVATIVES   By Michael Shari   Investors and corporations are revamping their derivatives strategies as they prepare for a resurgence of inflation.   At the beginning of the year, investment bankers noticed that institutional investors, hedge ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRs   By Matt Greco   A hot start to the year is suggesting that equity markets worldwide may be setting the stage for a return to a 2007- like frenzy during which they entertain all ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS   By Denise Bedell   The early months of 2011 have seen a flurry of new M&A; transactions announced across a range of sectors and industries, but it is the announced transactions for stock ...

  CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT   By Denise Bedell   After a record year, and four months hovering at around $30 billon in monthly issuance volumes, US high-yield debt issuance declined in December to $21 billion, according to data ...

  CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS   By Denise Bedell   While much has been said about the hoards of cash that companies are holding on their balance sheets, companies are likely to use a blend of financing options, ...

  CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS   By Denise Bedell   It was a benchmark year for the global IPO markets, in more ways than one.   In the last quarter of 2010, IPOs broke records in terms of issuance ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS   By Gordon Platt   There will be a substantial increase in mergers and acquisitions in 2011, following a relatively flat year for M&A; in 2010, as companies have plenty of cash to spend ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT   By Gordon Platt   The high-yield corporate debt market was unscathed by the dramatic sell-off in the US treasuries market in early December that followed news of President Obama's deal with congressional Republicans to ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS: CORPORATE FINANCE FOCUS   By Gordon Platt   Coming off the bailout of Ireland, and with several other European countries denying they need outside help, the outlook for the financial markets in 2011 is ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: A NEW STATUS QUO   By Michael Shari   The landscape of leading derivatives providers is being reshaped largely by a preference for low commissions and a newfound fear of having American banks as counterparties.   It would ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITION   By Gordon Platt   Growing risk appetite triggered a sudden burst of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in October, as investors prepared for a second round of quantitative easing, or QE2, from the Federal ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT   By Gordon Platt   The bond market rally was given a new lease on life last month when the Federal Reserve announced it would buy $600 billion of US treasuries—and maybe more, if necessary—by ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/ DRS   By Gordon Platt   Companies based in China and India dominated global initial public offerings in the first three quarters of 2010, and now the US is getting ready to join the new-equity ...

READY FOR PRIME TIME   By Gordon Platt   Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order.   Future growth of the foreign exchange prime brokerage industry will come from asset managers that are ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS   By Gordon Platt   Worldwide mergers and acquisitions are increasing, and the proportion of takeover offers that are unsolicited is at the highest level in at least a decade. The value of ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT   By Gordon Platt   The third quarter set a record for global issuance of high-yield bonds and pushed the year-to-date total above any full-year total on record, according to Thomson Reuters. Analysts expect ...