Finance Updates – Page 9 – Finance Updates

Europe’s Investment Banks Gear Up for 2026: Strategic Hiring & AI to Drive Deal Recovery

Europe Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

European investment banks expect a 2026 dealm...

Firms like UBS, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, R...

Muted European fee growth versus stronger glo...

AI-driven cost savings and persistent macro, ...

Boaz Weinstein’s Push for UK Investment Trust Reform: NAV Discounts & Governance Shake-Up

Europe M&A Retail Trade

Boaz Weinstein’s Saba Capital has built large...

Shareholders at all seven trusts, including H...

Critics question the clarity and risks of Sab...

The clash could spur wider reforms, discount‑...

Germany’s €30B Deutschlandfonds: Fueling €130B Private Investment in Key Industries

Europe Policy Construction

Germany has launched the Deutschlandfonds wit...

The fund will de-risk investments in energy t...

Merz’s government sees the fund as a tool to ...

Success hinges on overcoming regulatory bottl...

Goldman Sachs Tops JPMorgan in UK M&A Fees for Q1 2025 Amid Weak IPO Activity

Europe M&A Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Goldman Sachs has overtaken JPMorgan as the t...

Goldman earned about $163 million in UK dealm...

While Goldman leads UK fees and global M&A by...

Goldman’s UK lead depends on continued robust...

KNDS Powers Ahead in 2024: Major Orders, Deeper EU Ties & Export Gains

Europe M&A Manufacturing

KNDS Group reported a record 2024 with orders...

The company is deepening European defence int...

Major contracts—including Leclerc tank upgrad...

Under incoming supervisory board chair Tom En...

From Quake Survivor to Winter Paralympian: Ralf Etienne’s Battle with Visa Bars and Sports Dreams

Europe Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Ralf Etienne, a 36-year-old Bank of America i...

He lost a leg in Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, reb...

Etienne juggles long banking workweeks with w...

His story highlights how immigration policy, ...

LVMH Wins Partial Defamation Suit: What It Means for Analyst Integrity & Disclosures

Europe FYI Retail Trade

LVMH sued Morgan Stanley in 2002, alleging it...

In 2004 a Paris Commercial Court found Morgan...

On appeal in 2006, the court upheld defamatio...

The parties settled in 2007, ending litigatio...

UK High Court Dismisses VTB’s £205m Claim over Sanctions Licence Amendments

Europe Policy Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

The UK Administrative Court upheld an OFSI li...

VTB’s bid under section 38 of the Sanctions a...

Administrators value VTB’s claim at roughly £...

The ruling confirms that properly made UK san...

Trilantic Europe’s €425M Bet: Gransolar’s Vertically Integrated Solar Ambitions

Europe M&A Utilities

Trilantic Europe is acquiring a 60% stake in ...

Gransolar operates globally across the solar ...

Uría Menéndez, Latham & Watkins and EY Abogad...

The investment supports Gransolar’s internati...

DMX Pharma’s €170M Exit: What Alto & Trilantic Learned at Italy’s CDMO Frontier

Europe M&A Health Care and Social Assistance

Alto Partners and Trilantic Europe sold 100% ...

DMX, created in 2024 via the merger of Miphar...

The management team, led by Executive Chairma...

The deal crowns a buy-and-build value-creatio...