Capital Markets and Public M&A
Efficient, professional, clear and attentive service.
Chambers and Partners 2020Michelmores are strong and very well organised.
Chambers and Partners 2020Highly reactive, providing sound corporate advice.
Legal 500 2020As good as the most expensive London law firms, yet much better value for money.
Legal 500 2020Very commercial and super detailed. A good balance of both. They understand the broking side and what is likely to be acceptable to investors and what is not.
Legal 500 2020Head of capital markets at Michelmores, Ian Binnie has a broad practice spanning fund-raisings, takeovers and AIM IPOs among other matters. He knows the market, he has a lot of attention to detail and nothing will get left out at all with him.
Chambers and Partners 2020Ian Binnie knows the market, he has a lot of attention to detail and nothing will get left out at all with him.
Chambers and Partners 2021They very much understand what we are doing and how our team works. We can always get a sensible and practical answer from them.
Chambers and Partners 2021They have some highly respected lawyers who are big hitters.
Chambers and Partners 2021They are really responsive and available. They are really good and I'm completely satisfied.
Chambers and Partners 2021Excellent service and insightful advice makes this firm better than others.
Legal 500 2021In-depth understanding of matters and seamless working with lawyers in cross-border jurisdictions.
Legal 500 2021Our 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.
Recent experience
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
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KEY CONTACTS
Ian Binnie
PartnerTEAM
Richard Cobb
Senior Partner
Edwin Richards
Partner
Harry Trick
Partner
Hollie Suddards
Solicitor
Tom Pedel
Solicitor