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Best Independent investment bank: Jefferies |
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Also shortlisted: Moelis & Co and Ondra Partners |
It was a small deal, at just $233 million, but last August’s initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange of shares in Manchester United was a marquee transaction, so well known is England’s most successful football club. The deal had also been a troubled one. The club’s owners and advisers had harboured ambitions to float a much bigger deal, perhaps $1 billion, in Hong Kong or Singapore, and extract a high valuation from retail investors across Asia, where the club has millions of supporters who avidly follow the English Premier League.
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