Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Credit Suisse’s share price has been halved since the start of the year amid a series of high-profile scandals.

The difficult economic environment is deterring investors from pumping money into unprofitable, high-stakes tech ventures. 

Retreats are now regaining appeal after Covid-19 lockdowns forced teams to work purely from home.

America's largest grocery chain—Kroger—intends to buy America's second largest grocery chain—Albertsons.

The first twinges of a credit crunch are hitting companies at the lower end of the corporate food chain. Beef up before the squeeze intensifies.

The US bond market is usually quiet during the summer months but not this year.

Porsche boss Oliver Blume will now lead the Volkswagen Group.

Movie-goers have returned after the pandemic but it wasn't enough to save Cineworld from bankruptcy.

Venture capital is moving away from unicorns and towards mature companies.

Alibaba is one of more than a hundred Chinese companies currently on the provisional list of firms facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange over transparency and national security concerns.

Revlon has been struggling for years under a massive debt load and interest payments last year were double its operating income.

Mizuho Americas’ primary businesses are investment and corporate banking, lending, treasury services, and research and capital markets offerings.

Elon Musk aims to be the second buyer in history to get out of a merger due to material adverse effects, but it won’t be easy.

Intel will retain majority ownership of new chipmaking factories in Arizona but will split the revenue with Brookfield Asset Management.

The growing popularity of ESG investing has triggered a backlash in the other direction.

Gulf states are diversifying their economies and betting big on tech.

More than 300 companies went public via mergers with SPACs over the past two years, but many of these listings proved to be problematic.

Elon Musk’s plans to make Twitter an open forum for speech may be a double-edged sword. 

Like BP, Norway’s Equinor and France’s TotalEnergies, Shell’s leadership decided that the war with Ukraine made it impossible to maintain its business in Russia. 

Michel Combes, a graduate of the France’s elite Ecole Polytechnique, has three decades of experience in the telecom industry.