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    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
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      Employee share ownership is a perk worth expanding

      Wider access to equity plans can be good for companies, and their workers

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    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA
      Casino shares tumble on debt-to-equity conversion plan

      French food retailer warns that shareholders will be ‘massively’ diluted

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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      LexTUI AG
      Tui: shareholders to benefit from highly discounted capital increase Premium content

      Largest shareholder is sanctioned Russian oligarch whose stake will be heavily diluted, transferring value to others

      A Boeing 787 of the travel company Tui taxis close to the northern runway at Gatwick airport
    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Credit Suisse Group AG
      Qatar Investment Authority doubles stake in Credit Suisse

      Move comes as two big US investors sell down their shares in the Swiss lender

      Credit Suisse headquarters in Zurich
    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      A close Suisse shave

      Credit Suisse’s rollercoaster rights issue shows risks even for a Justice League of underwriters

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
      Monte dei Paschi cash call 93% covered but shareholders shy away

      Retail investors took up just 10% of ailing bank’s €2.5bn capital raising

      he main offices of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
      Monte dei Paschi di Siena set for €2.5bn rights issue

      Banks including Mediobanca, Credit Suisse, Citigroup and BofA to underwrite fundraising

      Piazza Salimbeni in Siena, home to Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
      Porsche AG
      Volkswagen targets €70bn-€75bn valuation for Porsche in IPO

      Partial listing of sports carmaker is set to be one of the largest European offerings

      Polishing the rear of a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S at the caramker’s factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen
    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      European companies
      Saipem gets the wrong end of the stick

      A failed rights issue in Italy highlights some big uncertainties

    • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
      LexSSP Group PLC
      SSP: sandwiched between creditors and recovery Premium content

      A well-flagged rights issue should put this former UK stock market darling back on its feet

    • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
      TP ICAP
      TP ICAP seeks rights issue to pay for $575m Liquidnet purchase

      Interdealer broker intends to boost its revenue growth and margins with acquisition

    • Friday, 27 November, 2020
      ANA Holdings Inc
      Japanese airline ANA to raise $3.2bn as it faces its largest ever loss

      Most of the money will be used to buy new aircraft

    • Friday, 20 November, 2020
      Covid rule allowing UK companies to fast-track share issues scrapped

      Rights of retail investors to participate in large fundraisings will be reinstated next month

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    • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
      LexRolls-Royce Holdings PLC
      Rolls-Royce: Whittled down Premium content

      Aero-engine group is raising a lot because it is losing a lot due to pandemic body blow

      The flying hours of airlines, who pay as they go for engines, has collapsed, and Rolls-Royce haemorrhaged almost £3bn of net cash in the first half of the year
    • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
      Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
      Rolls-Royce looks to raise £5bn to shore up balance sheet

      UK jet maker announces £2bn rights issue and £3bn government-backed debt package

      A man looks at Rolls-Royce’s Trent engine displayed at this year’s Singapore Airshow. The global collapse in air travel has grounded many of the large aircraft flying the company’s big engines
    • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
      International Airlines Group
      BA owner IAG launches steeply discounted €2.75bn rights issue

      Airline warns it expects to carry fewer passengers as it attempts to shore up finances after coronavirus disruption

      BA Airbus A380 jets parked at Chateauroux-Deols airport in France in May
    • Friday, 26 June, 2020
      Executive Pay
      Boohoo plans £150m executive bonus scheme

      Move comes without shareholder vote despite rebellion over remuneration report

      Co-founders of online fashion retailer Boohoo Carol Kane and  Mahmud Kamani
    • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
      Mitie Group PLC
      Mitie joins with Interserve to strengthen hand in Covid-19 crisis

      Outsourcer buys rival’s facilities management division for £271m

    • Wednesday, 10 June, 2020
      LombardKate Burgess
      The many stages of grief over balance sheet repairs

      Investors and market face more denial, depression and anger in coronavirus recovery

    • Sunday, 7 June, 2020
      Fund management
      Fidelity chief warns of global corporate solvency crisis

      Anne Richards says asset managers unable to provide enough cash to keep businesses afloat

      Anne Richards: ‘If you don’t want that drag from the overhang to depress the recovery, you have to think about the plan to recapitalise’
    • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
      LexWhitbread PLC
      Whitbread: purple strain Premium content

      In the wake of Covid-19, resilience has supplanted earnings growth as the main investment premise

      Premier Inn is one of Whitbread’s brands. A plan to reopen UK hotels between July and September looks reasonable given budget airlines may start flying again next month
    • Saturday, 9 May, 2020
      Foxtons and Restaurant Group criticised over equity raisings

      Advisory groups urge shareholders to vote against companies’ actions at AGMs

    • Friday, 24 April, 2020
      Merryn Somerset Webb
      Bypass retail investors at your peril

      Technology means small shareholders need not — and should not — be excluded from emergency equity fundraisings

    • Monday, 20 April, 2020
      Retail shareholders overlooked in fundraisings, UK investment chiefs warn

      Heads of Fidelity, Hargreaves and AJ Bell among those calling for more involvement of small investors

      Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity International
    • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
      Informa PLC
      Informa looks to raise up to £1bn in share placement

      Emergency fundraising comes as coronavirus pandemic grinds events business to a halt 

      The ExCel centre in London, which would normally play host to the kind of trade fairs organised by Informa, has been transformed into an emergency hospital
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