A key choice for a litany of UK-listed clients, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP advises issuers, banks, and sponsors on high-value and high-profile deals, including a number of Main Market IPOs on the London Stock Exchange. Recent engagements have seen the team include advising on the 3i Infrastructure placing, block sales for foreign issuers, SPAC IPOs, and emerging PIPE transactions. Practice co-heads Tom O’Neill and Michael Jacobs bring over 30 years of global experience, handling the full lifecycle of ECM transactions across private and public capital markets.
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Clients clés
- 3i Infrastructure
- Acacia Research Corporation
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Barclays
- BNP Paribas
- Certares Opportunities
- Citigroup
- Credit Suisse
- Deutsche Bank
- Disruptive Capital Acquisition Company Limited
Points forts
- Advised Marex on its $292 million US IPO.
- Advised Jefferies and UBS as joint global co-ordinators and joint bookrunners on the English/US law aspects of the US $550 million IPO of shares and warrants of Admiral Acquisition Limited.
- Advised Severn Trent as issuer on a £1 billion equity issue, the second largest equity issuance by a London listed company (and largest by a UK-incorporated issuer) in 2023.
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Responsable de la pratique
Tom O'Neill; Michael Jacobs
Autres avocats clés
Dinesh Banani; Sarah Ries-Coward; Thomas Vaughan