League tables feature prominently in presentations drafted by investment banks for their corporate clients, as well as in the financial press. They provide readers with an indication of their market shares and rankings relative to those of other houses, and for a given region, country, industry sector, product – or a combination of the above. read
Dealogic has just issued a set of interesting statistics following the completion of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Trust’s US$5.45 billion business trust IPO in Singapore. That deal, which was the fifth largest IPO in the transportation sector globally on record, as well as the biggest-ever Singapore IPO, has pushed the global IPO volume in 2011 to US$40 billion, up 42% as compared to the same period in 2010. This also represents the highest year-to-date (YTD) volume on record. read
