European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Jesús is an Insight Provider (Event-driven) on the Smartkarma network, where he looks across sectors at opportunities arising from securities mispricing (both credit and equity), share classes, bid announcements, prospective bids, and special situations. He has served as Economic and Business Advisor at the Spanish Congress in Madrid. Prior to that, he has worked in the City of London: as a Credit Analyst at Bloomberg; Event-driven associate at former boutique European Research; and doubled as Special Situations and Equity-linked VP (convertible bonds) at Merrill Lynch. Jesús has an MBA from the London Business School, a BA (Hons.) degree in Economics from the Complutense University in Madrid, and a BA (Hons.) in Law from U.N.E.D., also in Madrid.

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: June '26 Report

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: July '26 Report

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: August '26 Report

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: April '26 Report

Poste–TIM: A Done Deal in Pricing, Not Yet in Votes

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: March '26 Report

Event-Driven

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<li>May saw selective convergence reassert itself across Europe’s dual-class universe, with broad tightening in several structurally wide and liquidity-driven spreads offsetting renewed widening in Carlsberg and Grifols.</li>
<li>Both median and mean tightened, confirming no systemic repricing of voting rights. Dispersion remains driven by liquidity, concentrated ownership, implementation constraints and episodic positioning reversals across Europe’s dual-class universe.</li>
<li>Handelsbanken, Media-for-Europe and Telecom Italia delivered the strongest tightening moves in May, while Carlsberg and Grifols reversed sharply, re-widening after April’s convergence phase.</li>
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May saw selective convergence reassert itself across Europe’s dual-class universe, with broad tightening in several structurally wide and liquidity-driven spreads offsetting renewed widening in Carlsberg and Grifols.
Both median and mean tightened, confirming no systemic repricing of voting rights. Dispersion remains driven by liquidity, concentrated ownership, implementation constraints and episodic positioning reversals across Europe’s dual-class universe.
Handelsbanken, Media-for-Europe and Telecom Italia delivered the strongest tightening moves in May, while Carlsberg and Grifols reversed sharply, re-widening after April’s convergence phase.


Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsso (ERICB SS)

Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) (Pref) (BMW3 GR)

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsso (ERICA SS)

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: May '26 Report

Svenska Handelsbanken

Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: May '26 Report