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If you are a business looking to raise funds or list on a capital market, or you are an adviser to a business in this area, we can help.

How we can advise you

Our equity capital markets team has extensive knowledge and experience of advising on IPOs, secondary fund raisings and other equity capital market transactions domestically in the UK but also with a reputation for being emerging markets specialists. Our equity capital market advice includes:

  • pre-IPO structuring and advice
  • IPOs on the AIM, Main and Aquis markets
  • introductions to AIM
  • fast track admissions to AIM
  • placings and open offers
  • rights issues
  • delistings
  • class transactions and reverse takeovers
  • takeover code transactions
  • schemes of arrangement
  • corporate governance
  • How our team will work with you

    Working to minimise the demands on your time and reduce any disruption to your businesses, our approach is to work alongside our clients and their other advisers, operating efficiently and cost effectively.

  • Our clients

    We work closely with:

    • companies
    • nominated advisers
    • financial advisers
    • brokers
    • sponsors
    • corporate advisers
    • investors
  • Our experience

    • Advised Australian listed European Metals Holdings Limited on its admission to AIM utilising the ‘fast track’ process
    • Acted for main market listed Seneca Growth Capital VCT plc on a £20 million public offer
    • Advised Stobart Group on the £280 million partial sale of its transport and distribution business
    • Advising UP Global Sourcing Holdings plc (trading as Ultimate Products) on a £105.2 million IPO and £52.6 million placing
    • Advising AIM-listed Johnson Service Group plc, a leading UK textile services provider, on its £85 million placing through an accelerated book-building process
    • Advised Cenkos Securities plc on a £68.4 million placing for Reneuron Group plc
    • Advising AIM-listed Agronomics Limited [on £10 million] equity fundraising
    • Advising Zeus Capital in respect of its cash confirmation relating to the £62.8 million recommended cash offer for Murgitroyd Group plc by Sovereign Capital Partners LLP
    • Advising SalvaRx on the disposal of its subsidiary to Portage Biotech Inc., a for US$67.5 million
    • Advising AIM-listed Arc Minerals Ltd on the disposal of (i) Casa Mining Limited to Golden Square Equity Partners Limited for up to US$ 50 million and (ii) Ortac Resources (UK) Limited to ASX-listed MetalsTech Limited for up to US$ 8 million
    • Advising MMX, on its US$40 million acquisition of ICM Registry LLC
    • Advising AIM-listed Reabold Resources, the upstream oil & gas investment company, on a £24m institutional placing and equity investment in Rathlin Energy (UK) Limited, which holds a majority working interest in the West Newton discovery located near Hull
    • Advised Investec Bank plc and Cenkos Securities plc on a £23 million placing and open offer for Flowgroup plc
    • Advised on the AIM IPO of Nanoco Group plc
    • Advised WH Ireland Limited on the AIM IPO of Italian company SEC S.p.A
    • Advising finnCap and WG Partners as joint brokers on a £18 million US and UK institutional placing for AIM-listed healthcare company Angle plc
    • Advising AIM-listed Bluejay Mining, which is developing projects in Greenland and Finland, on a £17m placing
    • Advising microfinance company Zaim Credit Systems Plc on its IPO on the standard segment of the Main Market and associated fundraising. This involved publishing one of the first equity IPO prospectuses under the new Prospectus Rules
    • Advising AIM-listed Block Energy Plc on a £12 million placing from institutional investors
    • Advising UK engineering and manufacturing group, Vulcan Industries plc, on its admission to the AQSE Growth Market and placing
    • Advising The British Honey Company plc, a premium honey and infused spirits brand, on its admission to the AQSE Growth Market and an institutional placing
    • Advised on the takeover of Pochins plc
    • Advising Emmerson on its reverse takeover of Moroccan Salts Ltd and its readmission to the Standard segment of the Main Market
    • Advising AIM-listed FastForward Innovations on its investment of £2 million in EMMAC Life Sciences, Europe’s leading fully integrated medical cannabis company
    • Advising Styles & Wood plc on its move from the Main Market to AIM
    • Advising Sativa Group on takeover by Stillcanna Inc, the first public takeover of a UK company operating in the medical cannabis and CBD wellness sector

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