AMERICAS

摘要

Bankers remain confident June will be a busy month for IPOs and secondaries but face several potential macro obstacles that could make correctly timing transactions a tortuous exercise. Mixed outcomes on last week's six IPOs, the busiest week for new issue pricings this year, add to the conundrum of issuers and banks. Some banks are planning to launch IPOs in this holiday-shortened week (after Monday's Memorial Day holiday), with sandwich distributor advancepierre foods among those seen as most likely to launch. The Oaktree Capital-backed company has some defensive qualities and may be able to leverage off the success of last week's US$lbn IPO of sponsor-backed food distributor us foods, which delivered an 8.3% day-one gain on Thursday.