Philippe Espinasse Libri

Urumqi, China, May 1989-one month before the events of Tiananmen Square. A young Uyghur boy is forced into exile across Central Asia, as growing unrest against communist rule spreads throughout Xinjiang Province. Adopted by a fixer and fundraiser for jihad, he grows up in fundamentalist circles, developing a deeply rooted hatred for both the West and China. Barely into adulthood, he joins the mujahideen fighting on the porous borders between Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, before being noticed by Osama bin Laden, who entrusts him with a deadly mission for which he will spend years preparing. To stop him, Erwan Tanguy, a special forces operative working for France's intelligence services, and Xie Wei, a beautiful but dangerous officer in China's Ministry of State Security, will form a pragmatic alliance that will take them from Southeast Asia to the Horn of Africa, Spain and India, before a final, explosive confrontation in Hong Kong. In his second novel, former investment banker and author of the thriller Hard Underwriting, Philippe Espinasse, creates a fast-paced and well-tailored plot with nonstop action and edge-of-your seat suspense.

Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, September 2017. Year of the Rooster. Twenty years after the handover of the British Crown colony to communist China. The process to designate the territory's leader has been suspended, leading to renewed calls for electoral reform. A high-flying investment banker is found at dawn on his doorstep, brutally murdered, his body almost cut in half. More financiers are soon killed in spectacular fashion, triggering a game of cat and mouse between the police and an elusive Japanese assassin, known within Tokyo's underworld as Shiryo, the spirit of death. The investigation takes Chief Inspector Ethan Blake and Inspector Suki Lam from the boardrooms of multinational banks to seedy industrial warehouses in Kwun Tong and Aberdeen, as they desperately try to find a motive for the grisly series of murders. In his debut crime novel, former investment banker Philippe Espinasse takes a ride on the dark side of Asia's fast-changing financial capital. Hong Kong becomes a playground, where wealthy expatriates rub shoulders with prostitutes and tycoons, while a younger generation aspires to democratic ideals.

Focusing on the intricacies of IPO processes, the book provides insights from former banker Philippe Espinasse on selecting lead banks and conducting interviews. It features global case studies and emphasizes negotiation techniques that help issuers streamline operations, reduce costs, and mitigate potential liabilities during the IPO execution.

Former banker Philippe Espinasse, offers advice for the interview, selection and appointment of lead banks, as well as for the execution of an IPO. The book includes case studies from around the world and explains negotiation techniques through which issuers can save considerable time, effort and costs, and also limit their potential liabilities.