by Sebastian | Nov 18, 2020 | News
Multistrategy investment firm Coatue Management has collected more than $2.33 billion so far for a private-equity fund it began raising last year, regulatory filings indicate. In one filing on Friday, Coatue reported raising that amount for its Coatue Growth Fund IV...
by Sebastian | Nov 18, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News
The German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse said on Tuesday it would acquire an 80% stake in Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) for about $1.8 billion, the latest in a flurry of deals to sweep across the exchange industry. It makes good on a promise by...
by Sebastian | Nov 18, 2020 | News
Arrival Ltd., a maker of electric vans and buses backed by investors including BlackRock Inc., is in talks to combine with CIIG Merger Corp., a blank-check firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter. CIIG, a special purpose acquisition company, is in...
by Sebastian | Nov 18, 2020 | News
There is pent-up demand for travel, budget airline easyJet reported today, and coupled with pent-up demand for the IPO of a 12-year-old company, Airbnb is likely to get a warm welcome from investors when it comes to market next month. It deserves that. It requires...
by Sebastian | Nov 18, 2020 | News
Investment veteran William Ackman has the support of some of Wall Street’s top investors as he tries to pull off the biggest-ever deal carried out by a blank-check acquisition company, according to regulatory filings published in the last few days. Among the heavy...