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IFR US ECM Roundtable 2013

The US equity capital market is enjoying a long-awaited boost as investors thrust cash into equity funds with an enthusiasm not seen for decades. Faced with anaemic returns from fixed-income investments and racing to catch up with index gains, investors are embracing primary issuance with great verve.

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IFR US ECM Roundtable 2013: Participants

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Douglas Baird Citigroup Doug Baird is chairman of ECM where he is responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of equity and equity-linked financing transactions for the bank’s corporate clients. He has 25+ years’ experience across ECM including leadership roles at both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. Kristin DeClark Credit Suisse Kristin DeClark is a...

IFR US ECM Roundtable 2013: Part 1

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: Welcome to the IFR roundtable on the US equity capital markets. We have a lot to discuss. Leon Black of Apollo Group said in May that this is a fabulous environment to be selling into, and that the firm was selling everything that “wasn’t nailed down”. Would you agree with that assessment? Tom Morrison, Blackstone Group: As a private equity firm what we do is, we work with our...

IFR US ECM Roundtable 2013: Part 2

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: In a global marketplace is that valuation benefit as strong as it has been in the past? DeClark, Credit Suisse: Given the strength of the technology IPO market in the US, I would say that it’s as strong as ever. QIWI, which has all of their operations in Russia right now, is being valued similarly to a US-based company. IFR: A lot of foreign listings are also companies...

IFR US ECM Roundtable 2013: Part 3

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: So do you have a number in terms of those that have filed confidentially? One of the things that is difficult for us is that we used to know all of the companies that were in the IPO backlog. Now, with confidential filing, it has become a lot more difficult. Baird, Citigroup: It used to be a great thing about the market. You had 100% visibility on what was out there and what...