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Assisting clients to access capital and transact in the capital markets

Our capital markets team has extensive experience of assisting clients to raise funds through the issuance of equity and debt instruments, and advises on the full range of transactions on the capital markets.

We regularly advise companies seeking to IPO or make secondary offerings whether on an international or domestic stock exchange.

We work closely with our colleagues from areas such as real estate, tax, regulatory and finance and our detailed sector focus means we understand the company's business and the sphere in which it operates.

Our experience means we can provide invaluable assistance to companies as they prepare to go public, or raise further capital, ensuring transactions run as smoothly as possible and obtaining quick resolutions to issues if they arise.

Our Capital Markets Work

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  • Asia Pacific
  • Middle East
  • North America
  • UK & Europe

  • Advising a UAE based organisation with operations across the region on its AIM listing

    Advising Lamprell plc, a UAE based organisation with operations across the region, on its USD 750 million AIM listing.

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising a Northern Region Cement Company in connection with its SAR 900 million IPO

    Advising a Northern Region Cement Company in connection with its SAR 900 million IPO, including the preparation of public offer documents and an extensive due diligence process of business lines and commercial contracts

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising a Saudi investment bank as sole underwriter and floatation manager

    Advising a Saudi investment bank as sole underwriter and floatation manager in relation to the IPO of a cooperative insurance company in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising GCC company in connection with a proposed public offering and listing on the Nasdaq Dubai

    Advising GCC company in connection with a proposed USD 1 billion public offering and listing on the Nasdaq Dubai

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Lamprell plc on its acquisition of Maritime Industrial Services Company Ltd

    Advising Lamprell plc on its USD 366 million acquisition of Oslo stock exchange listed Maritime Industrial Services Company Ltd Inc - a public company funded in part by a rights issue

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Le BLANC International Pte Ltd on sale of share capital

    Advising Le BLANC International Pte Ltd on sale of 49% of the share capital of KSA based company to Al Babtain Power and Telecommunication Company (listed on Tadawul). Described by HSBC Saudi Arabia as a “landmark transaction involving the first instance of a publicly listed Saudi corporate issuing equity as consideration to a foreign vendor”

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Monarch Gold on its second listing on Nasdaq Dubai

    Advising Monarch Gold on its second listing of AUD 100 million on Nasdaq Dubai

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Saudi Hollandi Capital pn the rights to issue shares of Anaam International Holding Company

    Advising Saudi Hollandi Capital as sole underwriter in relation to the rights issue shares of Anaam International Holding Company

    Saudi Arabia

    Alternative Investment Market

    • African Minerals Limited - Placing on AIM
    • Westhouse Holdings Limited - Reverse takeover of SovGem Limited
    • Lamprell Plc - Placing and admission to AIM
    • Heritage Underwriting Plc - Public offer and admission to AIM
       
    United Kingdom

    Assisting a KSA investment bank to underwrite IPOs on the Tadawul

    Assisting a KSA investment bank to underwrite IPOs on the Tadawul. Our services included negotiating and drafting complicated underwriting agreements for the listing of a telecom company and an insurance company on the Tadawul for an investment bank acting as joint underwriter and floatation manager

    Saudi Arabia

  • RBL Bank IPO

    Partner John Chrisman acted for Kotak Mahindra, Axis Capital, Citigroup Global Markets India, Morgan Stanley India, HDFC Bank, SBI Capital Markets, ICICI Securities and IDFC Securities in the USD181.5 million initial public offering of RBL Bank Limited including a Rule 144A offering in the United States. (2016)

    India

    Dewan Housing Finance QIP

    Partner John Chrisman acted for Barclays Bank, Kotak Mahindra and Motilal Oswal in the USD130 million qualified institutional placement of Dewan Housing Finance including a private placement in the United States. (2015)

    India

    NTPC OFS

    Partner John Chrisman acted for Represented the Government of India in the USD750 million offer for sale in India by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) including a Rule 144 offering in the United States. (2016)

    India

    Thyrocare Technologies IPO

    Partner John Chrisman acted for JM Financial, Edelweiss Financial Services and ICICI Securities in the USD75 million initial public offering of Thyrocare Technologies including a Rule 144A offering in the United States. (2016)

    India

    IndusInd Bank QIP

    Partner John Chrisman acted for Morgan Stanley India, JM Financial, CLSA India, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse Securities, Goldman Sachs (India) and JP Morgan India in the USD675 million qualified institutional placement of IndusInd Bank Limited including a private placement in the United States. (2015)

    India

    Kazakhmys plc's secondary share placing

    Advising Kazakhmys plc on a secondary placing of their shares through an accelerated book build process raising in order to raise GBP 500 million

    Kazakhstan

    Private placement of a gold mining company

    Acting for a company with gold mining interest in Kyrgyzstan in relation to several rounds of private placement

    Kyrgyzstan

  • Advising a Northern Region Cement Company in connection with its SAR 900 million IPO

    Advising a Northern Region Cement Company in connection with its SAR 900 million IPO, including the preparation of public offer documents and an extensive due diligence process of business lines and commercial contracts

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Saudi Hollandi Capital pn the rights to issue shares of Anaam International Holding Company

    Advising Saudi Hollandi Capital as sole underwriter in relation to the rights issue shares of Anaam International Holding Company

    Saudi Arabia

    Preparing a Co-operative insurance company to list on the Tadawul

    Preparing a Co-operative insurance company to list on the Tadawul. Our services included structuring advice, an extensive due diligence of the business lines and commercial contracts, drafting offer documents and advice on the enhanced corporate governance standards for a listed entity

    Saudi Arabia

    Assisting a KSA investment bank to underwrite IPOs on the Tadawul

    Assisting a KSA investment bank to underwrite IPOs on the Tadawul. Our services included negotiating and drafting complicated underwriting agreements for the listing of a telecom company and an insurance company on the Tadawul for an investment bank acting as joint underwriter and floatation manager

    Saudi Arabia

    USD 1 billion private placement to establish an insurance and reinsurance company

    Assisting a US investment bank access more capital by advising on how it could make private placements to wholesale KSA clients with a minimum of cost and regulation

    Saudi Arabia

    Dual listing to address regulatory issues and increase access to investors

    Advising an international bank on a proposed USD 1 billion dual listing where the primary listing was on a GCC market and the secondary listing was on a European market. This strategy of dual listing was used to address the problem of relative illiquidity of some GCC markets

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising a Saudi investment bank as sole underwriter and floatation manager

    Advising a Saudi investment bank as sole underwriter and floatation manager in relation to the IPO of a cooperative insurance company in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Le BLANC International Pte Ltd on sale of share capital

    Advising Le BLANC International Pte Ltd on sale of 49% of the share capital of KSA based company to Al Babtain Power and Telecommunication Company (listed on Tadawul). Described by HSBC Saudi Arabia as a “landmark transaction involving the first instance of a publicly listed Saudi corporate issuing equity as consideration to a foreign vendor”

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising a UAE based organisation with operations across the region on its AIM listing

    Advising Lamprell plc, a UAE based organisation with operations across the region, on its USD 750 million AIM listing.

    Saudi Arabia

    Advising Lamprell plc on its acquisition of Maritime Industrial Services Company Ltd

    Advising Lamprell plc on its USD 366 million acquisition of Oslo stock exchange listed Maritime Industrial Services Company Ltd Inc - a public company funded in part by a rights issue

    Saudi Arabia

  • Hard commodities pre-IPO private placement

    Advising a Canadian iron-ore company in relation to pre-IPO private placement

    Canada

  • Technology company's AIM admission and acquisition

    Advising a technology company on its entry to AIM with a market capitalisation of GBP 31 million and its subsequent acquisitions across the world.

    Greece

    Alternative Investment Market

    • African Minerals Limited - Placing on AIM
    • Westhouse Holdings Limited - Reverse takeover of SovGem Limited
    • Lamprell Plc - Placing and admission to AIM
    • Heritage Underwriting Plc - Public offer and admission to AIM
       
    United Kingdom

    Convertible bond issues

    • Advising Sea Trucks, one of the largest oil and gas marine contractors in West Africa, on its redemption of a US$ 200 million secured convertible bond, in the context of fundraising for the completion of its new-build program for additional vessels

     

    • Acting for a Channel Islands company on four convertible bond issues, raising a total of US$ 700 million

     

    • Acting for a Channel Islands company on three convertible bond issues...
    United Kingdom

    Westhouse Group reverse takeover and AIM admission

    Advising Westhouse Group Limited in relation to a reverse takeover, placing and admission to AIM

    United Kingdom

Our Capital Markets team

Franco Acchiardo
Franco Acchiardo

Partner

Mohammed Almarzouki
Mohammed Almarzouki

Partner

Mohamed Barakat
Mohamed Barakat

Managing Partner – Cairo

Carrie Chen
Carrie Chen

Local Partner, Westlink Partnership

Jo-Anne Demers
Jo-Anne Demers

Partner

Mostafa Elsakka
Mostafa Elsakka

Partner

Rachel Fox
Rachel Fox

Partner

Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe

Partner

Arturo Majlis
Arturo Majlis

Partner

Shahd Makhafah
Shahd Makhafah

Partner

Elias Matni
Elias Matni

Partner

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