Simmons & Simmons is advising Rothschild as sponsor, Deutsche Bank, Panmure Gordon as joint bookrunners, and HSBC as co-lead manager on a £200m rights issue in RPC Group Plc (the international rigid plastic packaging supplier to the food and non-food, consumer and industrial markets) as part of the funding for its proposed €386m euros (£307m) acquisition of Promens Group AS, a leading European manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging products and rigid plastic components, with a growing platform in emerging markets.

The Simmons & Simmons team is being led by corporate partner Chris Horton and is comprised of US securities partner Julian Perlmutter, corporate managing associate Rachel Lewis, corporate associate Edward Nisbet, corporate trainee Justin Gulston, tax partner Nick Cronkshaw and tax associate Laura Allwright.