Why choose our Equity Capital Markets lawyers?
Our team are experts in this field; we have significantly more individuals ranked in Chambers & Partners for Equity Capital Markets (AIM) and acted on more AIM transactions in 2019 than any other law firm
Accordingly, we know the market and won’t waste
your time arguing non-material points.
Our strong sector focus and expertise in technology, energy & natural resources, life sciences and financial services businesses means we know these industries and understand your business.
We are award-winning – supplementing our top tier rankings in the legal directories, we acted on the “AIM Transaction of the Year” as voted at the AIM Awards 2017 and currently act for the 2016 "AIM Company of the Year".
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Every firm has qualified lawyers, but Fieldfisher stands out for its responsiveness, its provision of advice that is actually usable, and its in-depth understanding of the client's business.
Leveraging a roster of nearly 40 AIM-quoted clients and connections with a huge number of brokers, Fieldfisher has been involved in dozens of equity deals even at a time when the market has been especially quiet.
Highly responsive and proactive on transactions.
Our Expertise
- Initial public
offerings on the Main Market, AIM, NEX Exchange, Euronext and Euronext
Growth.
- Pre-IPO private
placements, planning and restructuring.
- Secondary
fundraisings (including placings, rights issues, open offers and vendor
placings).
- Public takeovers
(including advising investment banks and bidders and targets on takeovers
of quoted companies in both recommended and hostile situations, by scheme
of arrangement and by offer).
- Tender offers,
share buy-backs and returns of capital.
- Acquisitions and reverse
takeovers.
- "Buy and
build" strategies.
- Corporate governance.
- De-listings.
Notable Deals
Energy and natural resources
- Diversified Gas & Oil plc: advised Mirabaud Securities and Stifel Nicolaus Europe on the secondary fundraising by Diversified Gas & Oil plc, which raised US$189 million. The amount raised was one of the largest AIM secondary fundraisings and doubled the company's market capitalisation.
- Atalya Mining plc: advised this European copper producer on a cross-border deal which involved an institutional fundraising of over £100 million for the restart and expansion of the Rio Tinto Copper mine in Spain.
- JSC
KazMunaiGas Exploration Production: advised JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration
Production in respect of US$1.95 billion tender offer launched by the company
in December 2017 for its GDRs and shares, valuing the company at US$5.6 billion, and
its delisting from the Official List of the London Stock Exchange and the
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.
Legal sector
- Rosenblatt Group plc: advised Cenkos
Securities in its role as nominated adviser on the listing of Rosenblatt
law firm on AIM and the associated fundraising of £43 million. Rosenblatt
was the fourth law firm in the UK to list following the introduction of
the LSA in 2007 which enabled law firms to be owned and run by
non-lawyers.
- We have acted on three of the first
four law firm IPOs.
Life sciences and healthcare
- Cenkos Securities: advised the nomad
and broker on Diaceutics plc's IPO on AIM, one of the few IPOs
in 2019. Diaceutics' help provide insights into the integration of testing
into treatment pathways.
- Panmure Gordon and Bank DeGroof
Petercam: advised the nomad and joint brokers on Animalcare Group plc's
(the veterinary medicine provider) reverse takeover of Ecuphar, secondary
fundraising and readmission to AIM (voted "AIM Transaction of the
Year" at the AIM Awards 2017).
Technology
- Blue Prism: advised Blue Prism, the
leading robotic process automation business, on its acquisition of
Thoughtonomy for c.£80 million satisfied in cash and AIM-listed shares.
- Restore plc: advised document
management group Restore on its £88 million acquisition of TNT UK’s
document management business. This was funded by a £51 million placing on
AIM and £160 million of debt from a newly-expanded syndicate.
- Safran Corporate Ventures: advised
this entity on the IPO of Kalray, the computer processer manufacturer, of
which Safran Corporate Ventures is a shareholder, on Euronext Growth to
raise EUR 43.5 million.