The owners of Jimmy Choo, whose shoes were made famous by Sarah Jessica Parker in the television series Sex and the City, are expected to make a final decision at a board meeting this week. The retailer is being advised by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and HSBC.
Jimmy Choo is part of the Joh. A. Benckiser family office, which invests money on behalf of the German billionaire Reimann dynasty, best known as the founders of the FTSE 100 household and personal products giant Reckitt Benckiser. The owners are expected to sell about 25pc of the company on the public markets, valuing the retailer at around £800m.
Aldermore, one of a raft of so-called challenger banks looking to shake up high street lending, is scheduled to sit down with advisers from Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Lazard in the coming days to finalise months of preparations for a listing.
Aldermore specialises in lending to small and medium-sized businesses because of their dissatisfaction with big high street banks.
Founded five years ago by private equity firm AnaCap, it has managed to attract 155,000 British customers and gather £3.8bn of deposits. The company is tipped to be valued at about £900m on the stock market.
The RAC is planning to wait until its main rival, the AA, publishes its financial results on Tuesday before pressing the button. A £1.5bn listing will trigger a spectacular £200m windfall for senior management, who have hired Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Lazard, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to make preparations.
The rush of share offerings will provide a fee bonanza for the City’s investment bankers. Despite concerns about float fatigue among fund managers, London is on track to hit a pre-recession high for listings, with more than twice the £8bn raised last year anticipated. The boom is being repeated across Europe, with a further 50 to 60 predicted before the end of the year, following approximately 100 in the first half of 2014. Another 15 could come in the UK.

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