Financing Strategies

Shares in US food company Sara Lee are currently trading at a significant premium to the wider US food sector, with a run-up in the firm's shares tied to its plan to split in two. Investors... 2011-06-28

French oil giant Total has completed the acquisition of a 60% stake in US solar panel designer and manufacturer SunPower in a US$1.3bn deal. CFW notes that Total's decision... 2011-06-17

South Korea's national oil company KNOC is considering a farm-out at its sole offshore US oil-producing asset.

BMI View: The news that two large healthcare public private partnerships (PPPs) have recently reached the preferred bidder stage and financial close respectively highlights Canada's... 2011-06-15

US-based internet radio service provider Pandora Media increased the number of shares it hopes to sell in its forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) and also used the swelling demand... 2011-06-13

The comparatively low price paid by Exxon for the unfashionable Marcellus acreage could indicate that the region is set for a new wave of investment.

CFW believes that US container line Horizon Lines may once again have pulled itself back from the brink of bankruptcy. Last week the beleaguered carrier was warned that it could face... 2011-06-06

US container line Horizon Lines has warned that it may be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) because its market capitalisation and stockholder equity have fallen below... 2011-06-01

There has been a lot of attention on the tech sector of late, especially in equity markets and in the M&A arena. But now it is the turn of the debt markets to take centre stage... 2011-05-18

Century bonds are far from commonplace in the world of corporate finance but right now the window has been left wide open for them. Indeed, with corporate borrowing costs back at historic... 2011-05-17