Spanish clean-energy producer Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente SA has raised about €300 million in a share offering, with the funds to be deployed in expanding its data center and battery storage operations. The transaction combines an accelerated placement and the issuance of new shares, representing 10% of the total share capital, Solaria said in statement Wednesday. The offering was priced at €...
Spanish clean-energy producer Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente SA has raised about €300 million in a share offering, with the funds to be deployed in expanding its data center and battery storage operations. The transaction combines an accelerated placement and the issuance of new shares, representing 10% of the total share capital, Solaria said in statement Wednesday. The offering was priced at €24 per share, with a 4.9% discount to Tuesday’s closing price. The move is part of a pivot to re-brand as an operator of critical infrastructure and develop new business lines including power-intensive data centers and energy storage systems. The company is also increasingly looking to grow outside Spain in other European countries. As part of this strategic push, the company is also in talks to join a consortium which aims to develop a €4 billion data center hub in Spain, Bloomberg reported earlier this month. The book was covered 6.7 times, “attracting broad international participation, including long-only funds, infrastructure investors and specialist energy accounts,” the Madrid-based company said. Shares traded as much as 5.6% lower in Madrid Wednesday. Solaria will also use the funds to finance the growth of renewable energy, its core business.
Hedge-fund firm Millennium Management and Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management are among those that participated in battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. ’s $5 billion share sale, according to people familiar with the matter. Trading giant Jane Street Group and alternative-asset manager Hillhouse Investment were also among those getting allocations in A...
Hedge-fund firm Millennium Management and Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management are among those that participated in battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. ’s $5 billion share sale, according to people familiar with the matter. Trading giant Jane Street Group and alternative-asset manager Hillhouse Investment were also among those getting allocations in Asia’s largest share sale yet this year, the people said, asking not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Jane Street, whose equity capital markets business typically provides liquidity to share sales in the role of a market maker, declined to comment, as did Millennium. Hillhouse and CATL didn’t reply to requests for comment. NBIM didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. CATL, as the company is known, launched the deal barely a year after its $5.3 billion Hong Kong listing, taking advantage of a tight market window during a period of de-escalation in the Middle East. “The participation of foreign institutional investors in the share placement not only helps broaden CATL’s shareholder base but also signals that foreign capital remains eager to invest in Chinese companies despite prevailing geopolitical uncertainties,” said Bosco Wu , investment strategist at East Asia Securities. “A broader overseas shareholder base may help mitigate the political risks CATL may face in its overseas expansion.” Hedge funds bought the bulk of the shares on offer, with at least some of the demand driven by traders seeking to cover short positions on the battery maker’s Hong Kong-listed shares, people with knowledge of the matter have said. Read More: Hedge Fund Short Covering Fuels Demand in $5 Billion CATL Deal CATL shares have offered an unusual trade, as bets on the battery maker tied to soaring energy prices have driven the Hong Kong shares to a record premium over the Shenzhen listing in March — a rare constellation as the reverse is usually true...
Airbus SE’s adjusted earnings before interest and tax and revenue both fell short of analyst estimates in the first quarter, dragged down by a steep earnings drop at the main aircraft making subsidiary. The company said it’s confident it can achieve its full-year aircraft delivery and earnings targets. Bloomberg’s Benedikt Kammel reports.
Airbus SE’s adjusted earnings before interest and tax and revenue both fell short of analyst estimates in the first quarter, dragged down by a steep earnings drop at the main aircraft making subsidiary. The company said it’s confident it can achieve its full-year aircraft delivery and earnings targets. Bloomberg’s Benedikt Kammel reports.
The world will be watching to see how the ban for anyone born after 2009 works out. So far it’s been a win with smokers and non-smokers alike Last week saw the passage of the tobacco and vapes bill, which has a very ambitous aim: to create a “ smoke-free generation ” and eventually end smoking for ever in the UK. Quite simply, anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be legally able to bu...
The world will be watching to see how the ban for anyone born after 2009 works out. So far it’s been a win with smokers and non-smokers alike Last week saw the passage of the tobacco and vapes bill, which has a very ambitous aim: to create a “ smoke-free generation ” and eventually end smoking for ever in the UK. Quite simply, anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be legally able to buy tobacco products. From 2027, the minimum legal age for the sale of tobacco will increase by one year (from the current age of 18) every year. There will be a permanent generational line: everyone above it will still be allowed to buy cigarettes and vapes; everyone below it won’t. But over time the proportion of people allowed to smoke will become smaller and smaller as older citizens die – until one day no one in the UK will be able to legally buy cigarettes. It’s quite a clever piece of legislation: rather than an outright ban that will result in conflict over rights with smokers now, it gradually reduces the number of those able to purchase tobacco products legally year by year, hopefully leading to further declines in smoking that happens invisibly. Public health researchers will be studying the impact of this legislation (a policy experiment and one of the first of its kind), and whether it could be a model to introduce in other countries and areas. Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of How Not to Die (Too Soon) Continue reading...