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Posted by lleaders in Deal Zone on 10 30th, 2009 | Comments Off

Keeping score: PGE, Stellar Megaunion and IPOs

Highlights from the Thomson Reuters Investment Banking Scorecard: BIGGEST EUROPEAN IPO SINCE MAY 2008 As part of a government privatisation program, Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (PGE), an electric utility, raised $2.1 billion in an IPO on the Warsaw stock exchange this week. The offering marks the...

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DealZone Daily

That big, candy-coated M&A bellwether, Kraft-Cadbury, remains at the forefront of many dealmakers’ thinking. Brad Dorfman examines how the clock will really start ticking on a deal to create the world’s biggest confectioner once Kraft (KFT.N) reports earnings next week. Meanwhile, a clutch...

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Nomura targets cross-border, Asia focused M&A

In these times of banking bailouts and gloomy results, it’s refreshing to read about a firm that is bucking the trend. Nomura Holdings Inc unveiled its biggest profit in nine quarters on Wednesday, suggesting that its push into overseas bond and equity markets is paying off. But as Sadeq Sayeed,...

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Prepare to dump bonds as M&A takes off, SG says

Societe Generale’s asset allocation team reckons cash-rich corporates are going to start ploughing money into deals as the economy recovers, and that spells a brighter future for stocks than bonds. The graph above is lifted from a note published earlier this week, in which the French bank shows...