RE: New Broker Rating15 May 2020 09:56
What's intriguing for me is that H + P initiates coverage at a market cap of +£300m. That's an initiation note as well so one would expect that at some point Hannam will up their estimates if the story gets that far
Hannam are both buy side and sell side advisers. So, which category do Hannam fall into assuming they are acting in an advisory capacity (either informal or formal) for GGP?
'When you refer to the sell side, it refers to firms who sell products like bonds, stocks, or the sale of an entire company (as in investment banking). Your job if you are on the sell side is to make investors buy these products, hence the term “sell” side.
On the other hand, if you are on the buy side, what you do is use capital to purchase these securities or companies that are for sale. You raise this capital from investors and from there, you will have to make your decisions as to where you want to invest them and what you will buy.
In terms of M&A, the buy side means working with the buyers and finding opportunities for them to acquire other businesses.
Sell side M&A, on the other hand, means working with the sellers who are trying to find a counterparty for the sale of a client’s business.'