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  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    The unravelling of Lex Greensill: a mix of bravado and financial alchemy

    The potential collapse of the financial group could put many small businesses and thousands of jobs at risk

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
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    Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance stops payments to stricken Greensill

    Metals magnate’s move comes as suppliers and politicians seek assurances over his companies

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
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    Greensill’s demise shines spotlight on government ties

    With links to a former prime minister, the Australian financier was close to the UK’s corridors of power

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
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    Greensill Capital unravels, Biden relents on stimulus cheques

    The FT’s Robert Smith explains how Greensill Capital came to be on the verge of insolvency

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
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    German regulator files criminal complaint against Greensill Bank

    Financial watchdog BaFin alleges balance sheet manipulation at troubled lender with €3.5bn of deposits

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
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    Greensill Capital prepares to file for insolvency

    Apollo Global Management is in talks to buy up parts of the business

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
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    German regulator steps in as Greensill warns of threat to 50,000 jobs

    Finance group cautions on risk to clients as it seeks insolvency protection in Australia and rescue with Apollo

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
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    Greensill and supply-chain finance: how a contentious funding tool works

    Technique has troubled regulators, rating agencies and accountants

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
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    Credit Suisse lent $160m to Greensill on top of fund exposure

    Swiss bank’s executives worried about fallout from relationship with ailing finance group

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    Brookfield walks away from Sanjeev Gupta loan talks

    Talks with $500bn asset manager collapse as pressure grows on industrialist’s main lender

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
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    Greensill left scrambling after Credit Suisse suspends $10bn in funds

    Apollo in talks to take on parts of ailing supply-chain finance business

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
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    H2O hires advisers as it races to dispose of illiquid debt

    London-based asset manager says it hired adviser at the request of the UK regulator

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
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    EG Group to raise extra $1.8bn debt to buy Asda petrol stations

    Fresh financing will add to the highly leveraged group’s existing $9bn debt pile

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
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    Soho House plans to list in New York with $3bn valuation

    Higher target price expected for hospitality group on anticipation of boom in travel stocks

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
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    Sanjeev Gupta turns to Brookfield for loan

    Talks with $500bn asset manager come as one of industrialist’s main lenders is under pressure

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
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    BaFin pushes Greensill Bank to reduce its exposure to Sanjeev Gupta

    German regulator concerned about SoftBank-backed lender’s level of risk linked to industrialist

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
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    Thyssenkrupp ends talks with Gupta’s Liberty over steel unit

    German industrial group says sides ‘far apart’ and it will now develop division itself

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
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    Billionaire Asda buyers raise £2.75bn in record sterling junk bond sale

    ‘Blowout deal’ garners strong demand as debt investors hunt for returns

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
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    Silver Lake outmanoeuvres rivals to win big with cinema bet

    Private equity group pocketed $113m after selling shares in the beleaguered AMC chain

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    EG Group
    Billionaire Asda buyers to stump up less than £800m to clinch £6.8bn takeover

    Deal fronted by Mohsin and Zuber Issa will be largely funded by asset disposals and debt deals

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
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    Asda’s buyers to sell off assets to fund £6.8bn deal

    New owners plan to sell supermarket’s petrol stations to themselves and raise £3.5bn in debt

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    Cineworld Group PLC
    Cineworld backs down in dispute with lenders over interest bill

    Cinema group risked default in holding out over contested additional costs

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Cairn Capital Ltd
    Mediobanca’s Cairn Capital to take over distressed debt firm Bybrook

    Move marks part of push by Italian lender into alternative investments

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
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    Day-trader bets on AMC hand big gains to lenders Silver Lake and Mudrick

    Cinema operator’s skyrocketing stock price makes debt-to-equity conversion ‘trade of a lifetime’

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank incentive plan leaves executives with potential $1.2bn collective gain

    Rajeev Misra and Marcelo Claure were loaned $250m each by SoftBank to buy shares that have since rallied

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