Last year, UK companies raised just £1.3bn in new equity, net of buy backs and acquisitions. Over the past month, Nat Rothschild and Tony Hayward raised the same amount by selling shares in Vallares, their new investment vehicle. What makes this all the more remarkable is that the company, as the prospectus coyly acknowledges, is a newly formed entity with no operating history, no revenues and no basis on which to evaluate its ability to achieve its objectives.
不計回購和收購,去年全年英國企業僅募得13億英鎊新股本。可就在過去一個月,納特•羅斯柴爾德(Nat Rothschild)與唐熙華(Tony Hayward)就通過發售二人新投資公司Vallares的股票,募得同樣多的資金。令這一成就顯得更加不同尋常的是,這家公司是新組建的,沒有任何運營經歷,沒有收入,也沒有任何可依賴的指標供投資者評估它是否有能力實現運營目標——它的招股說明書含糊其辭地承認了這一切。