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Jefferies grabs a piece of AirTrunk’s $20b auction
More details have emerged about the advisory lineup of the five-headed monster lurking in AirTrunk’s data room.
Street Talk understands Jefferies bankers, led by local boss Michael Stock, have been tending to Abu Dhabi’s $US100 billion AI investment firm MGX as well as Californian tech investor Silver Lake. With the duo’s decision to join the IFM-DigitalBridge-GIP bidder consortium as revealed by this column over the past week, Jefferies has joined Barrenjoey, JPMorgan and UBS in the advisory line-up.
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones. Email Sarah at sarah.thompson@afr.com
Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column. Email Kanika at kanika.sood@afr.com.au
Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review. Connect with Emma on Twitter. Email Emma at emma.rapaport@afr.com
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