Marchés de capitaux

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