With team members based in the mainstream financial centres of Europe, the USA, Middle East and Asia, we are well-placed to advise on the complete range of domestic and international capital markets issues including debt and equity, structured finance and derivatives.
Characteristic of our approach is the way our capital markets lawyers combine with our broader finance, restructuring and corporate trust and agency expertise as well as our specialist sector teams to deliver practical, industry-focussed advice.
We count issuers, financial sponsors, arrangers, underwriters, institutional investors, export credit agencies, trustees, agents, brokers, dealers, counterparties and financial advisers among our clients.
In this article, we report on certain amendments to the Takeover Code, the draft minimum standard for audit committees consulted on by the Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) in November 2022 and the FRC guidance published in July 2022 on running effective AGMs.
In this article, we report on some recent decisions of the Financial Conduct Authority relating to market abuse and the key recommendations made by the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review to improve secondary fundraising processes for UK listed companies.
In this article, we report on the updated Pre-Emption Group guidance relating to disapplication of pre-emption rights published in November 2022 and the changes made to the admission rules for the Access and Apex listing segments of the AQSE Growth Market of the Aquis Stock Exchange which came into effect in October 2022.
