Gordon Haskett was yesterday piggybacking of little old Betaville's hard work.
Don Bilson at the "research advisor" set off a round of speculation about Goldman Sachs taking an interest in Affirm Holdings Inc, the US-listed lender, after publishing a note pointing out that David Vinlar is stepping down from the Block board "due to increasing potential for competitive overlap with other boards"...
Splashed across the front page of the main book of the Evening Standard yesterday was the headline: "DELIVEROO FLOAT FAILS TO DELIVER".
Did, though, the float really fail deliver?
Well, for the investors that bought in at the IPO it probably appears that way on day one as the stock plunged by 30pc in intra-day trading...
There is an interesting juxtaposition of two big market tales that involve Goldman Sachs this weekend.
The powerful investment bank and broker is selling a lot of stock in some of the world's biggest technology media companies for, it would appear, Bill Hwang's Archegos Capital as part of some forced develeraging. Hacks at Bloomberg have the latest on that tale. Below is the link:..
This morning a consortium of investors led by BlackRock have announced they plan to buy Calisen, the London-listed smart meter company, for £1.4 billion or 261p a share. Below is the link:
Scribblers at Goldman Sachs managed to generate some decent publicity for themselves yesterday by talking up (or is it puffing up) British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group.
As a result, the shares flew (no pun intended) and some market reporters, such as Tom Howard of The Times, led their reports with the broker's bullish predictions about IAG's prospects...
Mark, the "Kleinmanator", Kleinman of Sky News has gone for a Saturday afternoon wind up with a story about BT Group hiring Goldman Sachs and, maybe, Robey Warshaw to work on a defence ahead of a £15 billion takeover approach. Below is the link:
https://news.sky.com/story/bt-group-board-on-alert-for-15bn-takeover-approaches-12054366..
Is Morgan Stanley advising/financing GKSD and Gruppo San Donato on their potential bid for NMC Health?
The reason I posit this question is that there have been a series of disclosures suggesting that's the case without it being explicitly laid out. See below:..
They have been feted as Britain's top rainmakers. Yes, that's Sir Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw. Ever since they left their respective megabanks (Morgan Stanley and UBS) in 2013 and set up Robey Warshaw much smoke has been blown up their respective bottoms about how brilliant they are at advising some of Britain's biggest companies on mergers & acquisitions...
It struck me as odd whilst re-reading this morning's press release from Hong Kong Exchange that Moelis & Company, a mid-sized American M&A advisory firm, is the sole advisor to the Asian bourse on its takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange...
Goldman Sachs is not the Goldman Sachs Betaville first encountered when I was a cub mergers & acquistions reporter in the mid noughties.
Back then, the firm was proud to be the the top investment bank Wall Street (and to some extent the City of London) advising on the biggest multi-billion mergers and punting around the market with its billions of dollars of capital with an unashamed arrogance...