Corporate Finance
Over the last few years our corporate finance team has experienced considerable growth. We have advised on transactions with a combined value of well over US$1.5 billion. However, the greater part of our work involves transactions in the £1 to £50m range.
We are regularly instructed on:
- Acquisitions & disposals
- MBOs/MBIs
- Joint Ventures
- Refinancing (debt and equity issues – public and private markets)
- IPOs (AIM listings in particular)
- Establishment of investment funds
- Public company compliance (Listing, Prospectus and Disclosure and Transparency Rules)
Recent work includes:
- Placing of shares and admissions to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (Oil & Gas sector)
- Secondary offering by an AIM company (Oil & Gas sector)
- Private placing of shares for a leading alternative energy company (and a follow on funding round)
- Acquisition and financing of a series of solar (photovoltaic) farms
- Acquisition of a significant financial services business, from the administrators of MF Global (in Special Administration)
- Acquisition of a high spec double hulled chemical tanker
- Delivery and financing of a series of newbuildings for an international shipping group
- Private placing of funds and follow up investment round for a meditech company spinout from Nottingham University
