Posts tagged: Jefferies

"Chinese walls"...

Friday, 26 April 2019, 6:24 pm

Mark Kleinman's piece about the private equity firms that looked and then ditched a counterbid for London-listed Inmarsat caught Betaville's eye today.

Loyal readers might be wondering why given the central premise of the story is that, er, nothing is happening.

Well, for a start pieces about old deals that never got off the ground can show future intentions, so for M&A watchers these stories can provide vital clues for the mosaic theory...

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Bodycote in the market for new corporate brokers

Wednesday, 6 July 2016, 12:00 am

This isn't exactly earth shattering news but I did pick up over a sumptuous lunch yesterday that FTSE 250-listed Bodycote is looking to appoint new advisers.

Word is the 'thermal processing specialist' is carrying out a beauty parade for new corporate brokers, one of the few remnants of "gentlemany capitalism" from a bygone era of the City of London...

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