PATERSONS Securities and Macquarie Capital Advisers have topped WA Business News' survey of Western Australian capital raisings, with each firm involved in transactions worth just over $1 billion.
THE dampening effect of post-crash market volatility on conventional merger and acquisition activity has left many playmakers looking to backdoor opportunities for corporate action.
IT is not often that a move by one person can shake up a marketplace but the defection earlier this year of Michael Ashforth to Macquarie Capital from Gresham has had a big impact.
