Matthews South advised a large cap industrial company on its first Enhanced Open Market Repurchase (“eOMR”). The eOMR is an open market program intended to maximize the discount to VWAP. The program does this by using an algorithm to determine the daily purchases. Our client had considered ... >>>Read More
October Convertible Market Review
Total Issuance: October was typically quiet, with the majority of issuers in blackout for the bulk of the month pending Q3 earnings releases. $820mm of convertible debt priced in 3 transactions, bringing the YTD total to $35.1 billion (vs. $37.0 billion for the same period in 2018). ... >>>Read More
Are You Getting the Best ASR Pricing?
Over the past five years, Matthews South has advised clients on over $30 billion of ASR transactions. As a result, we have collected a large amount of data on achieving the best pricing for ASRs. In this write-up, we “open source” our findings so that all ASR issuers may benefit from what we have ... >>>Read More
September Convertible Market Review
Total Issuance: September was the busiest month of the year, surpassing August. There was $7.3 billion of convertible bond issuance over 18 transactions, bringing the 2019 total to $34.2 billion (vs. $35.7 billion for the same period in 2018). There was also $4.75 of mandatory convertibles issued by ... >>>Read More
Cautionary Tale of Insulet’s $800mm Convertible Transaction
On September 3rd, Insulet issued $800mm (including greenshoe) of new 7-year convertible bonds, and bought back $225mm principal amount of its old convertibles due 2021. Matthews South was not involved in the transaction. JWood was the independent advisor to the company. The Insulet ... >>>Read More