Equity Capital Markets

 Clients and work in this area include:

• Advised India-based company, DQ Entertainment on its flotation on AIM and related £26.8m fundraising, valuing the company at £50million.
• Advised Panmure Gordon & Co. plc, the UK stockbroker and investment bank, on its placing with QInvest LLC, Qatar’s largest investment bank, to raise £23m (before expenses).
• Acted for Raven Russia Limited, an AIM listed close-ended investment company that invests in the Russian property sector with an initial focus on the warehouse market in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions, in connection with its £76.2m placing of preference shares and warrants (both of which were admitted to trading on AIM).
  Advised Brewin Dolphin Securities Limited on the IPO on the Official List of eaga and related placing of shares to raise £190million. Market capitalisation of £453m.
• Advised Hong Kong-based company, AsianLogic Limited on its flotation on AIM and related £53.9m fundraising, valuing the company at £122.4 million.
• Advised Genus PLC on its move from the AIM market to the Official List. The market capitalisation on admission of its shares to the Official List was approximately £425million.
• Advised MirLand Development Corporation plc, a company offering real estate investment opportunities across Russia, on its successful flotation on AIM at a market capitalisation of £478million.
• Acted on the £80m Official List flotation of Cryptologic. The deal was the first use in a mainstream IPO of streamlined rules introduced by the UK Listing Authority to permit certain SEC reporting issuers to use their annual US registration statement as the basis for UK Listing Particulars.
• Advised Playtech Limited, a leading online gambling software provider, on its placing to raise £112m for the purposes of financing future acquisitions.
• Advised Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings plc, a run-off management service provider and acquirer of solvent insurance companies in run-off, on its successful admission to AIM. Randall & Quilter raised £31m and had a market capitalisation of £69.9million.
• Advised Dutch client Plaza Centers N.V., a developer of shopping and entertainment centres in Central and Eastern Europe, on its successful flotation on the Official List at a market capitalisation of £514m. As part of the IPO, Plaza Centers raised £154million.
• Advised Canaccord Adams, in its capacity as nominated adviser and broker to Polo Resources Limited, in connection with Polo’s readmission to AIM, its reverse acquisition of companies in Mongolia, and its investment in GCM Resources.
• Advised Raven Mount Group plc on the listing of the residual part of its business following a complex restructuring involving a section 110 demerger and two back to back schemes of arrangement.
• Advised Argo Group Limited a fund management company on its AIM flotation.  The market capitalisation on float £13m.
• Advised Cenkos Securities plc, as broker to Helphire Group plc, in connection with a placing and open offer by Helphire to raise £45m (before expenses) and also in connection with an equity fundraising of £28m (before expenses) and related  acquisition by AIM-quoted ToLuna Plc.
• Advised Argo Group Limited, an independent alternative investment manager offering a multi-strategy platform for investing in global emerging markets, on its AIM flotation.