Our Public Companies team has extensive knowledge and experience
of providing expert, timely and cost effective advice on:
- pre-IPO fundraisings
- flotations (including Offical List, AIM and Plus Markets)
- secondary issues (including rights issues and placings)
- takeover Code governed bids (both recommended and
contested)
- shareholder circulars
- corporate governance and regulatory issues
We are currently corporate advisers to 15 listed companies, of
which three are included in the FTSE AIM 100 index and a
further two in the FTSE 250.
Our recent experience includes:
advising recruitment company Imprint plc
on:
- its admission to AIM at an initial market capitalisation of £14
million (now £105 million)
- two subsequent acquisitions of specialist financial
services recruitment businesses, with a total value of £38 million,
part-funded by further institutional share placings on AIM to raise
£28 million
advising marine engineering business Hamworthy
plc on:
- its admission to AIM at an initial market capitalisation of £40
million (now £175 million)
- a share placing on AIM to raise £18 million for general working
capital purposes
advising department store operator Beale plc on
£7 million of store acquisitions from Fenwick plc
and the obtaining by it of shareholder consent for the deal
advising local ferry operator The Portsmouth Harbour
Ferry Company plc on the £11 million hostile takeover bid
made for it by Falkland Islands Holdings plc
advising facilities management company Sira Business
Services plc on its £6 million takeover by
Securiplan plc
advising bus operator Southern Vectis plc on
its £16 million takeover by Go-Ahead Group plc
advising regional brewer and pubs operator George Gale
& Co on its £92 million takeover by Fuller,
Smith & Turner plc
