Our Capital Markets team is led by London-based partner Ian Binnie who has extensive experience acting for issuers, nominated advisers and brokers in all aspects of London capital markets-related transactions. Several of the corporate partners also benefit from experience working as general counsel to listed and AIM companies. We have advised a number of our clients since incorporation through to an IPO and ultimate exit. The team offer advice, support and experience on both equity issues on the premium and standard segments of the Main Market, AIM and AQSE as well as listings of debt instruments on the LSE’s Order Book for Retail Bonds (ORB).
We offer plc boards with advice and assistance on a range of corporate governance, market abuse and general corporate law and regulation and other corporate action-related issues.
The Michelmores Public M&A team has experience providing potential bidders as well as target companies with detailed advice on the Takeover Code as well as UK and EU competition law considerations. We also regularly advise UK public companies on the impact of the Takeover Code on their acquisition strategies.
Many of the Michelmores corporate partners have previous experience gained as partners at ‘top 20’ international law firms.
Our Capital Markets team have been ranked for Flotations: small and mid-cap in Legal 500 2021. Ian Binnie is a ranked lawyer for Chambers and Partners UK-wide Capital Markets: AIM.
Advising TechMet on its USD 55 million investments from the United States International Development Finance Corporation
Acting for Orchard Funding Group plc on its AIM IPO
Acting for Pay4Later (a consumer finance platform that connects merchants and their customers to banks and finance companies), in securing Series A funding from MissionOG
Acting on the £42m sale of Aero Stanrew
Acting for the Shareholders of MagicSeaweed on the sale to Surfstitch (listed in Australia)
Acting on the sale of Fianium to NKT Photonics (listed in Denmark)
Acting for Mobeus on its investment in Tushingham Sails (Red Paddle Co)
Acting for (UK listed) Haynes Publishing Group plc on its acquisition of Teon Media