Public Equity: A Temporary Rush with Long-Term Prospects

Deutsche and JP Morgan Bring FSL to Market In Singapore

In choosing our first annual Asia public equity deal of the year, there was no question we were going back to 2007. Our public equity deal table shows a long list of planned and hoped for IPOs but not a single successful execution in Asia since the start of the year. That said, it helped that 2007 gave us a particularly good candidate – also the winner of our 2007 Eastern IPO of the Year award, in the Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan led First Ship Lease Trust (FSLT).

Before jumping straight into the deal, it is worth mentioning a couple other notable IPOs in Asia that happened over the course of 2007. FSLT followed in

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