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Capital Markets

Our capital markets practice provides comprehensive equity and debt capital markets capabilities. We operate a full-service practice used to handling transactions regardless of size and complexity.

We act for issuers, sponsors, shareholders, management, underwriters, managers and trustees and therefore understand capital market transactions from every angle.

We advise clients in relation to:

initial public offerings (IPOs) on both the main market and AIM (including the listing of investment funds);
secondary fundraisings, including placings, rights issues, open offers and other structures;
dual track processes;
their ongoing corporate governance obligations;
bond issues generally, including MTNs, high yield bonds, convertibles and exchangeables;
project bonds; and
securitisation and other structured financings.

Recent work

Supermarket Income REIT PLC

Advising Supermarket Income REIT PLC, a UK-based closed-ended investment company, on its IPO on the specialist fund segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, with an initial market capitalisation of £100m.

Canaccord Genuity Limited

Advising Canaccord Genuity Limited (acting as Sponsor and Joint Bookrunner) and Liberum Capital Limited (acting as Joint Bookrunner) in connection with the IPO of Volution Group plc, a leading supplier of ventilation products, on the premium segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, with an initial market capitalisation of £300m.

Tarsus Group plc

Advising Tarsus Group plc, an international business-to-business media group, on its cashbox placing, raising £24m of gross proceeds.

The management of Xafinity plc

Advising the management of Xafinity plc, a corporate pensions consultancy, on its IPO on the premium segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, with an initial market capitalisation of approximately £190m.

GAME Digital plc

Advising GAME Digital plc, the leading omni-channel specialist retailer of video games in the UK and Spain, on its IPO on the premium segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, with an initial market capitalisation of £340m.

ThinkSmart

Advising ThinkSmart, a financial technology company operating in the retail point-of-sale lease finance space, on its IPO on AIM.

Venn Partners LLP, PRS Operations Limited and PRS Finance plc

Advising Venn Partners LLP, PRS Operations Limited and PRS Finance plc on a £265m, 1.75 per cent bond issuance, pursuant to the appointment by the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government to operate the £3.5bn “Private Rented Sector Housing Guarantee Scheme” and the establishment of the related bond programme.

An industrial technologies company

Advising an industrial technologies company on a $1.5bn European Commercial Paper Programme, with two large international financial institutions acting as arranger and dealer, and issuing and paying agent respectively.