Access to capital may be the single most important factor in the evolution of a business, particularly in today’s post-COVID-19 uncertain economic and regulatory environment.
Knowing when to access the markets and how to structure additional capital issuances in such a climate can present significant challenges.
Our International Capital Markets team, including over 80 lawyers, can advise you on successful equity and/or debt capital markets transactions by working alongside you and your other advisers and operating in an efficient and cost effective manner to meet your objectives, whether they be to provide additional firepower for opportunistic acquisitions or as part of a wider recapitalization or refinancing package.
We also have experienced colleagues in our other practice areas, such as tax, derivatives and regulation, who work closely with our capital markets team to ensure that all legal, regulatory, and tax implications of your transaction are considered and seamlessly integrated.
We recognize that capital markets transactions are strategically important for you and present a host of additional difficulties and extra duties, obligations and responsibilities. Using a thorough project management approach, we do everything we can to ensure that transactions proceed as smoothly as possible, working to minimize the demands on your time and seeking to ensure that you can devote the necessary attention to the operational aspects of your business in a challenging environment.
On cross-border transactions, our extensive international network offers further opportunities to streamline your legal coverage In addition, if you are based in the United States, or thinking about tapping investors in the United States, our experienced US securities law colleagues are available to help you navigate the complexities of debt capital raising in the United States.
We act for: international and domestic issuers of equities and debt securities, including corporates and investment funds; investment banks, underwriters, sponsors and brokers; selling shareholders, including executives and other insiders; financial advisory firms; private equity houses; debt funds; corporate trustees; service providers; debt investors; and originators of securitized assets.
Our international Equity Capital Markets team has extensive experience of advising on IPOs, follow-on fundraisings and other equity capital markets transactions across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East. Our experience includes advising:
- a BDC in connection with its $500 million initial continuous public offering
- a market-leading BDC in multiple follow-on equity offerings totaling over $1.8bn
- the arranger and dealers of a Qatari-based telecommunication providers’ Dublin-listed US$5bn GMTN program and a R144A/Reg S US$1bn issue of notes thereunder
- a FTSE 100 corporate as issuer and guarantor on a series of London-listed sterling bond offerings totaling £1bn
- a UK REIT on two issues totaling nearly £500m of London-listed guaranteed first mortgage bonds secured over property portfolios
Our capital markets legal services
Our global lawyers have significant experience with:
- Equity Capital Markets
- initial public offerings
- secondary equity fundraisings, including rights issues, open offers, cashbox and other placings (including accelerated bookbuild offerings)
- block trades
- ongoing compliance advice, including in relation to the disclosure of inside information, manager transactions and other Market Abuse Regulation compliance and equivalent advice, annual and other general meetings and Listing Rules and AIM Rules transactions (including class transactions, related party transactions and reverse takeovers)
- corporate governance advice, including compliance with the UK Corporate Governance and QCA Codes
- advice in relation to all aspects of public M&A and transactions governed by the Takeover Code, including recommended and hostile bids, mandatory cash offers, partial offers, whitewash transactions and concert party analysis, bid defense and cash confirmation
- advice in relation to shareholder activism and requisitioned general meetings
- Debt Capital Markets
- domestic and cross-border bond offerings, including high yield, retail and other types of bond offering
- USPP and other private placements of debt securities
- convertible and hybrid capital structures
- securitizations and warehouse funding structures
- liability management (consent solicitations, tender offers, exchange offers)
- bond restructurings
- project bonds
- green bonds
- receivables re-financings
- loan portfolio sales
- structured note programs
"The team is interested in being a good partner with our company and building the relationship over time. They have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate in a non-technical manner"
2020
"One of the most professional firms in town with good commercial connections and thus good business sense."
2021
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