Equity capital markets
The equity capital markets remain a critical avenue for growth, enabling companies to access funding, drive expansion, and secure their competitive edge. Navigating this dynamic landscape, marked by regulatory complexity and evolving market conditions, demands precise legal guidance and strategic insight. Penningtons Manches Cooper supports businesses and their advisers through every stage of equity capital market transactions, ensuring successful outcomes aligned with their commercial objectives.
Specialist counsel for equity transactions
Our corporate team brings deep expertise to mid-market equity capital market transactions, adeptly advising companies, financial advisers, and brokers on initial public offerings, secondary issues, takeover offers and schemes of arrangement. By focusing primarily on mid-market growth businesses, we are uniquely positioned to understand their specific needs and challenges, helping them achieve robust market positions.
With extensive experience across key sectors, including life sciences, technology, fintech, real estate, and retail, our lawyers deliver tailored, sector-specific advice. This specialist knowledge allows us to provide strategic insights that directly address the regulatory and market dynamics impacting these industries.
Our team is highly experienced in navigating the complexities of listing requirements, and the prospectus and disclosure regime, across each of the UK’s equity markets. We offer clear guidance to ensure compliance and reduce risk, allowing our clients to focus confidently on their growth ambitions. Additionally, we support listed companies in meeting their ongoing obligations, including corporate governance standards and the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the Takeover Code).
The team is unique for its practical and commercial approach… We appreciate the team’s deep expertise and ability to deliver clear, actionable advice.
Navigating the regulatory complexities inherent in equity capital market transactions requires a nuanced understanding of financial services legislation. We work closely with our financial services regulatory team, who offer comprehensive guidance on UK and EU financial services laws. Our integrated approach ensures that clients receive seamless support across both transactional and regulatory aspects of the UK’s equity capital markets.
Our practice area team has successfully managed numerous types of equity capital markets transactions, demonstrating our capability to effectively steer clients through complex processes. From IPOs and secondary issues to takeovers and intricate governance and compliance matters, our lawyers consistently provide insightful and commercially-focused solutions.
How we help our clients
Initial public offerings
Placings, rights issues and other secondary issues
Takeover offers and schemes of arrangement
Private placements
Listing, prospectus, disclosure and transparency rules
Corporate governance
Useful resources
What our clients are saying
From partner level downwards, Penningtons are able to draw quickly on previous experience to act with great speed when it mattered.
The Penningtons team is vastly experienced in the small-mid cap space and provide a high quality service at a reasonable rate.
Penningtons Manches Cooper were an absolute pleasure to work with throughout the entire IPO process – we found them smart, to the point, and efficient.
Recent work highlights
Capital raisings
Share buyback programme
Multiple equity fundraisings
Corporate takeover
Take-private offer
Main market IPO
Equity fundraisings
Share buyback programme
Equity fundraisings
Share buyback programme
External recognition
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