Hints and tips:
...Atos has sold 13.1 per cent of Worldline and the Von Finks have exited SGS ... Mike Ashley’s picked up a bit of handbag maker Mulberry. ... Google numbers disappoint. ......
...SG Warburg, the bank the German financier had founded in London, had the nous to structure a landmark $15m bond for the developer, Autostrada. It was to be the first offering of its kind....
...SG (sighs): I know. I’ve been thinking about that. Phil: Well, let’s get to work. What about Paris? That would get George Osborne where it hurts. SG: I could do with a bit of that....
...The long-time SG Warburg and UBS dealmaker played an important role in negotiating the departure of Stephen Hester as RBS chief executive last year and has been particularly influential in advising politicians...
...14 years with SG Warburg / UBS, with a particular focus on emerging markets....
...Goldman has something called a Multi-Strategy Investing (MSI) group, which sits inside the bank’s Special Situations Group (SGS)....
...Previously Chairman Levitt served on the boards of TIAA-CREF, Neuberger Berman, LLC, and Risk Metrics Group....
...But with the platform from SG, it can simply change the mix by buying and selling SG’s Lyxor ETFs....
...At 57, he was surely set fair to complete his entire career at UBS and the now wholly subsumed SG Warburg (where he started more than 30 years ago)....
...The bonds, being sold by Goldman Sachs, SG CIB and UBS, will have a change of control clause allowing investors to sell them back to Adecco if its ratings are cut below investment grade due to a takeover...
...With the price of crude fluctuating on Wednesday, Shell weakened 2.3 per cent to £18.65. Rival BP, which SG said was undervalued, lost 1.2 per cent to 634p....
...France Telecom is making a private placement of a €300m floating rate note. The deal is being managed by SG CIB, which would not give any further details....
...CSFB, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and SG CIB were the lead-managers....
...Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and SG CIB are managing the sale, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week....
...“The deal values Camaieu at close to €790m and the take-out multiple represents a 72 per cent premium to other transactions in the French sector,” said Marie-Line Fort of SG Securities who advised investors...
...Mr Hajjar joined SG CIB, one of the market leaders in the European derivatives market, where he had been for 13 years....
...Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and SG CIB are managing the sale, due next week....
...Credit Suisse First Boston, Barclays Capital and SG CIB managed the sale....
...Caroline Slama, an analyst at SG Cowen, calculates that, in order for Germany to abide by both commitments, it would have to close a third of its industry....
...The tap brought the total size of the issue to €2.9bn. BNP Paribas, Natexis and SG CIB managed the sale....
..."To get that kind of volume on a debut issue for an unrated borrower is a tremendous achievement," said Melanie Czarra, at Citigroup, which managed the sale with Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and SG CIB....
...Strong demand for the bonds led Finmeccanica to increase the size of the issue from a minimum of €300m. Banca IMI, Morgan Stanley and SG CIB are managing the sale....
...Another big placing was carried out by SG, which sold a block of 90m shares, or 2.65 per cent, in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Spain’s second-biggest bank, with a further 16m shares, or 0.47 per cent...
...Barclays Capital, Citigroup and SG CIB will manage the sale. Korea First Bank made its debut in the European residential mortgage-backed securities market with a €550m issue....
...“Ford and General Motors caused a lot of uncertainty in the credit market,” said Damian Saunders at Commerzbank, which lead-managed the sale with Calyon, Morgan Stanley and SG CIB....
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