Download PDF Introduction After two years of limited activity due to uncertainty surrounding interest rate policies, large valuation gaps, and geopolitical tensions, the leveraged finance market saw a major recovery in 2024, marking its busiest year since 2021. The combined issuance volume of leveraged loans and high-yield bonds in the Read more…
Download PDF Introduction An easy and cheap way to access capital for value-creation, or maybe the first step towards imploding a business that worked for over 50 years? Popularised in the 1980s as an alternative form of financing for corporations amid high interest rates, asset sale-leasebacks have since found applications Read more…
Download PDF Introduction Private credit denotes any debt or extended to privately held companies. It comes in many different forms, but often involves non-bank firms making loans to private companies or purchasing their debt on the secondary market in a variety of ways. To be more specific, Private credit, also Read more…
Download PDF Introduction This article explores the short-term commercial financing landscape and the most important financial instruments therein. We elaborate on how the coronavirus affected short-term financing of SMEs and how institutions intervened to avoid large scale insolvencies. Subsequently, we detail the most important practices within trade finance and in Read more…
Intro There has been a growing interest among private equity firms in the past 5 to 6 years towards sports. During these past recent years, the sports industry has become a major economic sector, exceeding €600bn in value and growing at around 7% annually. The sports’ market is divided into Read more…
Introduction 2018 was a somehow controversial year in IPO terms, with Q1, Q2 and Q3 building a strong momentum for companies to go public, and Q4 eroding the optimism recorded in the preceding timeframe. Unfortunately, 2019 has opened with the same negative outlook, with scheduled IPOs all throughout the world Read more…
SoftBank Group CO [9984:TSE] – Market Cap as of 26/11/2018 JPY 9.614T Introduction SoftBank group (SBG) is a true believer in WeWork’s idea, with a total combination of debt and equity funding in the loss-making U.S. shared office space provider of $8.4 bn. This month, WeWork received an additional $3bn Read more…
Whitbread plc (LON:WTB) – market cap as of 04/05/2018: £7.84bn Introduction Conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers represent an old phenomenon and an inherent element of capitalistic governance systems. It stems from the fact that managers tend to profit from simply because their companies are getting bigger (through higher Read more…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) – market cap as of 20/04/2018: $462.0bn Tencent Holdings Ltd. (HKG:0700) – market cap as of 20/04/2018: HK$3,780bn Introduction The first two weeks of April 2018 have seen a string of aggressive acquisitions and the announcement of financing rounds by companies backed by the Chinese Read more…
CIGNA Corporation (NYSE:CI) – market cap as of 09/03/2018: $42.7bn Express Scripts Holding Co (NASDAQ:ESRX) – market cap as of 09/03/2018: $45.7bn Introduction On March 8, 2018, Cigna Corporation announced the acquisition of Express Scripts Holding for a cash and stock consideration of $67bn. The combination of Cigna – a Read more…