Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The world economy may be down but IPOs are up.

IPO roadshows go virtual in bid to circumvent Covid.

The pharmaceutical sector is consolidating.

PNC's acquisition will make it the fifth-largest bank in the US.

A wave of passion for special purpose acquisition companies is washing from the US to other shores.

Covid-19 cruelly crushed some innovators, but the companies that have reinvented themselves are getting stronger.

Kazakhstan is embracing cutting-edge fintech.

The pandemic may have closed stores and movie theatres but not the IPO market.

The shake-up at the top of the company’s ranks comes at a pivotal time for the e-commerce business.

Data-warehousing cloud platform Snowflake jumped 112% in its spectacular first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Many companies reinvent themselves to survive.

Palantir and Asana go public in direct listings as the IPO market heats up.

Wirecard’s scandalous collapse exposes the weakness of a single EU financial market that leaves regulatory supervision to the member states.

Most companies around the world are being profoundly affected by Covid-19, and the impact on financial reporting and control is significant.

Commercial real estate is being reshaped by the health crisis, offering both risk and opportunity.

The risk that tenants will fall behind on rent payments or go out of business under the stresses of the global coronavirus pandemic is enormous.

The expected spike in bankruptcies and restructuring cases is global.

With lockdown easing in many places, small and midsize enterprises can get back to business; but they face huge hurdles.

Banks and governments are trying to provide enough financial support to avoid economic collapse, but some businesses won’t make it.

Use of data science skills to make corporate finance decisions is expanding to inform everything from IPO participation to foreign exchange to new product development.