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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Africa

Global Finance

The group structured the debt financing for Scatecs Mogobe battery energy storage system project. The second green bond issued by parent company FirstRand was part of the banks October 2023 issuance. The power these projects generate will be sold to the diverse companies within Anglo American. This raised 3.4

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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Asia-Pacific

Global Finance

DBS Best Bank for Sustainable Finance Best Bank for ESG-Related Loans Best Bank for Transition/Sustainability-Linked Loans DBS portfolio of sustainable finance products is vast, ranging from green loans and sustainability-linked loans to social loans and green trade finance.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Introduction

Global Finance

Market participants entered the year hoping for a robust revival in M&A, IPO, and debt financing activities. After a dip in 2023, M&A activity showed signs of recovery in 2024. Debt financing remained a critical tool for corporations in 2024, but the landscape was experiencing a strategic shift.

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Weekly Roundup: April 14-20, 2023

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, April 21, 2023 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of April 14-20, 2023. Cunningham, Jerry R. Marlatt and Felix R. Liekefett, Derek Zaba, and Eric S.

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Law and Courts in an Age of Debt

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School) and Elisabeth De Fontenay (Duke University) , on Thursday, April 20, 2023 Editor's Note: Jared Ellias is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Elisabeth de Fontenay is a Professor of Law at Duke University. Highly leveraged firms are now commonplace in many U.S. industries.

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Financing Year in Review: Evolving Markets and New Trends

Harvard Corporate Governance

Widely held concerns about inflation, rising interest rates, and a possible recession combined to slow debt financing and deal activity in the first half of 2023. Borrowers deferred new debt deals, delayed planned refinancings, and paused major corporate transactions while waiting for interest rates to top out.

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Weekly Roundup: January 26-February 1, 2024

Harvard Corporate Governance

Cunningham and Carlos Juarez, Mayer Brown LLP, on Friday, January 26, 2024 Tags: Director , Executive Compensation , Retainers , Vesting Non-GAAP Adjustments: Impact of Merger and Acquisition Activity on Performance Targets and Results Posted by Mike Kesner and Steve Pakela, Pay Governance, on Saturday, January 27, 2024 Tags: Acquisition , GAAP , Generally (..)