Stifel

Stifel Nicolaus & Co, the brokerage and investment banking firm, has hired a head of emerging markets sovereign research from Oppenheimer & Co, GlobalCapital understands.

Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund Ltd, the London-listed investment fund that specialises in private debt and infrastructure bonds, is preparing to raise £146m to take advantage of a growing pipeline of investment opportunities, despite the political volatility in the UK.

DWF has become the first UK law firm to list on the main market London Stock Exchange, after the company priced its £95m IPO at 122p a share on Monday.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) gave investors a year-end treat this week with 2018’s last billion-dollar IPO from an Asian issuer. It was paid back with a near 8% jump in its stock price on the first day of trading. But to succeed the firm had to cut its fundraising target and get realistic on pricing. Jonathan Breen reports.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) has nabbed $1.1bn from its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, guiding investors toward the bottom of the price range amid choppy markets.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group has begun bookbuilding for its long-awaited $1.23bn IPO in the US, around two months after first gauging investor appetite.

Shares in ASA International, the Amsterdam-based microfinance firm, have traded up nicely since they began trading on the London Stock Exchange, capping off a largely successful vintage of IPOs in Europe.

Energean, the Mediterranean oil and gas exploration company, could be worth as much as £812m when it lists on the London Stock Exchange later this month, according to the terms of the IPO.

Energean, the oil and gas exploration company focused on the Eastern Mediterranean, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange next month to finance the development of gas fields off the coast of Israel.

Hutchison China MediTech pocketed $300m this week after executing a follow-on offering of its Nasdaq-listed American Depository Shares, increasing the deal size as it went.

Hutchison China MediTech hit the market on Wednesday with a view to raising around $262m from a follow-on sale of American depository shares (ADS), according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Chinese micro-lender Qudian has bagged $900m from its US listing, after robust demand allowed it to price the stock above the initial range, according to a banker close to the deal.