Combining technical excellence and commercial acumen, our global, cross border team regularly advises on complex equity market transactions.
We have long-standing experience in handling the full range of equity financing structures, including initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary placings, equity line financings, rights issues/open offers, takeovers, reverse takeovers, private placements, acquisitions, demergers, spin offs, convertible issues, as well as associated continuing obligations and corporate governance matters. Many of our transactions are within our core sectors of Energy and Transport where our deep sector knowledge adds further value to our clients.
Those we advise include companies admitted or proposing to list on various markets and exchanges, sponsors, nominated advisers, brokers, investment banks and other financial advisers and investors.
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.
