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  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    The FT ViewCompanies
    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

    A Casino hypermarket in France
  • 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

    An employee views a FTSE share index board in the atrium of the London Stock Exchange
  • 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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