Global Capital Markets Update with Kroll
Private equity investments
Many biopharmaceutical companies are facing challenges raising cash through traditional equity markets. While venture investment activity saw a slight increase in the first half of 2024 as compared to the equivalent period in...more
Last week, SIFMA released its annual Capital Markets Fact Book, which reports comprehensive data on capital markets activity generally. The U.S. equity markets represent 42.6% of the $115 trillion global equity markets, with...more
On 11 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Statement PS24/6 (Policy Statement), in which it sets out its final UK listing rules and summarises feedback to its earlier consultation and stakeholder...more
In the second of our publications on the FCA’s Consultation Paper (CP23/31) setting out its detailed proposals for listing rules reforms, we take a closer look at what the proposals mean for the sponsor regime. The FCA...more
The FCA has published further detailed proposals for a significantly reformed UK listing regime, including the first tranche of its proposed new Listing Rules. The proposals mark another important milestone in the...more
In July 2023, the Investment Research Review (the Review) commissioned by the UK government published its findings into investment research in UK capital markets. The Review made the following seven recommendations, seeking...more
US borrowers have turned to convertible bonds in recent months as mainstream debt and equity markets have stumbled in the face of inflationary and interest rate headwinds. Combined leveraged loan and high yield bond deal...more
As part of the wider review of the UK’s capital markets regulatory landscape, the FCA published Consultation Paper CP23/10, which sets out reforms for companies with listed shares on the Main Market of the London Stock...more
This digest outlines some of the significant legal work undertaken by Conyers on behalf of our clients around the world since the beginning of 2022. The year was challenging for many of our clients, with global uncertainty...more
El pasado 19 de abril, fue presentado ante la Comisión de Hacienda y Crédito Público del Senado de la República, para su revisión y discusión el proyecto de iniciativa de reforma a la Ley del Mercado de Valores (LMV)....more
The International Bar Association (ABA) Annual Conference was held October 30 to November 4, 2022, in Miami, Florida. Marc Kushner and Carlos Méndez-Peñate, two members of the Dorsey New York office’s vibrant international...more
As lawmakers look to reform aspects of wholesale markets regulation, the UK may be poised to drift closer to the US. In his Mansion House speech on July 1, 2021, Rishi Sunak, the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced...more
On 4 November 2022, the Pre-Emption Group (“PEG”) published an updated Statement of Principles: Disapplying pre-emption rights reflecting certain recommendations of the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review (the “SCRR”) which...more
The latest proposals for reforming the UK equity capital markets, in response to Lord Hill’s UK Listing Review of March 2021 (the Listing Review), have been announced following the publication of the UK Secondary...more
Bob Bartell, President and Global Head of Kroll Corporate Finance, and David Blowers, Chief Operating Officer of Kroll Corporate Finance, presented a “capital markets trip around the world” during which they provided insights...more
The Commission’s rule writing calendar may be about to have a meltdown. The agency is considering a number of significant rule writing-proposals covering important areas. A number of those proposals are controversial,...more
FCA publishes discussion paper on replacing current premium and standard listing segments with new single listing segment and sponsor regime reforms- On 26 May 2022, the FCA published a discussion paper (DP22/2) seeking...more
IPOs of Latin America-based companies enjoyed a robust year in 2021, especially when it came to listings in Brazil in sectors like fintech - In line with global trends, Latin American issuers recorded surging IPO volumes...more
Join World Law Group and Kroll for a “capital markets trip around the world” during which our speakers will provide insights into the debt and equity markets, valuation multiples, and the M&A market, including a forecast of...more
Strong pandemic-era performance and a look around the corner "IPO activity in Latin America has hit record levels in 2021, with the region’s largest economy taking the lion’s share of the bounty." During the first eight...more
A year ago, many stakeholders were apprehensive about the economic consequences of the COVID-19 health crisis, and no one knew whether it would affect private equity permanently. Despite the long-term crisis, activity in...more
With Hertz emerging from a bankruptcy with a positive result for shareholders, we are reminded of the interplay between the equity markets and the bankruptcy alternative....more
SPACs, or so-called “blank check companies”, are an alternative and expedient route to going public, but the financial reporting, tax, and governance aspects of the SPAC’s future investments must be considered. Previously...more
The European debt and equity markets shrugged off the impact of a nearly total shutdown due to COVID-19 at the end of the first quarter of 2020 to rebound with strong performances in the second half of the year. As activity...more
The sudden arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020 shocked an M&A market that was riding high coming into the year, and in many ways, the impact of the novel coronavirus on M&A deals is still just coming...more