The equity capital markets saw $2.2 billion raised via 20 issues this week and is fast closing in on the $100 billion mark with volume for the year-to-date standing at $99.7 billion. ECM volume has already surpassed the record $94.1 billion achieved for the full year of 2005.
Goldman Sachs increased its lead over UBS in the league table rankings, leading two deals to stand at $9.7 billion from 30 issues, almost $1 billion ahead of UBS in second place. The US house ran the books for Powerchip Semiconductor CorpÆs $330 million accelerated bookbuild together with Nomura and also Sinomem TechnologyÆs $51 million convertible on a sole basis.
Citigroup jumped two places...
