IPO And Privatisation Analysis
If we are to believe the newspaper headlines, EMEA is to become the new Eldorado of IPOs in 2010. After raising US$9.9bn in 2009 or the smallest amount since 2003, EMEA IPOs are expected...
2010-01-26Exillon Energy's November IPO, which was the first London IPO by an oil explorer in more than a year, has inspired a number of explorers to follow suit. After a disastrous 2009 when...
2010-01-26While Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are thinking about moving some operations out of London on the back of the 50% tax on bonuses, Russian companies have rekindled their love affair...
2010-01-12Until now, it looked like no one other than Russian state banks would be willing to become involved in the Hong Kong IPO of Russian aluminium producer Rusal. Well, the doomsayers...
2009-12-29The sale of a majority stake in the Warsaw stock exchange (WSE) is the flagship of Poland's privatisation programme. This means that if the deal goes sour, the Polish government will...
2009-11-20It is a testimony to the still battered state of the private equity (PE) industry that PE firms are looking at the spoils from a Kraft-Cadbury carve-out rather than making a bid for...
2009-11-11The promises of privatisation made by Russian Prime Minister Putin in October are already turning into real IPOs, as Exillon Energy now looks to be the first company to list on the...
2009-11-09Where would Europe be without its Emerging component? Europe is the laggard in the IPO revival with only US$900mn raised in the year so far, far less than the US$37.8bn raised in...
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