Our Capital Markets Team has an excellent reputation for providing City quality advice and service, at regional costs. Headed by Adrian Possener, the team has extensive experience and insight of a wide range of market, such as the Official List, AIM, IPSX and AQSE, and the day to day, and transaction led, requirements of them.
Our expertise includes:
- Public share issues (capital market flotations on various stock exchanges, including the Official List and AIM, whether for Initial Public Offerings, Introductions, Placings, Secondary Issues or other types of offerings).
- Continuing obligations (under relevant regulatory and statutory frameworks).
- Unlisted share offers (raising finance by share issue programmes, including for Enterprise Investment Schemes and unlisted share issues).
- Sector specialists (new emerging companies raising working capital through new share issues, particularly in the technology sector, including information technology, and the property development sector).
- Public company takeovers (acting for both bidders and targets on public company takeovers, including by way of schemes of arrangements).
- Bid defence (drafting handbook).
- Takeover Panel (regular interaction).
- Group structuring (including restructuring and shareholders relationships and corporate governance).
- Directors’ duties (including capital market regulatory aspects and in particular the considerations and roles for non-executive directors).
We value long-term relationships with our clients and are willing to invest time and resources at the outset of a transaction in order to properly understand a client’s business and objectives. We find this leads to strong and long-lasting relationships between us and our clients, and the achievement of those objectives.
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Birketts’ service levels and responsiveness are absolutely first-class.
Chambers [UK 2026]