Ashurst has advised J.P. Morgan Cazenove and J&E Davy as joint global co-ordinators in relation to the £606 million placing of ordinary shares by DCC plc.  DCC is a leading international sales, marketing and support services group headquartered in Ireland and listed on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange's main market, operating through four divisions: LPG, Retail & Oil, Healthcare and Technology.

DWF has advised Mercantile Ports & Logistics Limited on a conditional fundraising of up to £29.8m through a placing, subscription and open offer of new shares.

Mercantile Ports & Logistics Limited is currently developing a modern port and logistics facility in Mumbai, India spanning over 200 acres of land with a sea frontage of approximately 1,000 metres.

Led by its Frankfurt-based partner Michael Schlitt international law firm Hogan Lovells has advised Baader Bank Aktiengesellschaft as sole global coordinator and sole Bookrunner, in connection with a capital increase of DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate AG against cash contributions through the partial use of its authorised capital.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP represented JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS as joint global coordinators, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs as joint bookrunners, and BDO Capital and BPI Capital as local lead underwriters in connection with the Rule 144A/Regulation S follow-on offering of 400,940,590 common shares of San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc. The shares were sold in a secondary offering by parent company San Miguel Corporation at Php 85 per share for a total value of Php 34 billion or US$640 million.

Shearman & Sterling advised the Italian company Garofalo Health Care S.p.A. on its initial public offering of 20 million ordinary shares with no par value at a public offering price of €3.34 per share, resulting in gross proceeds to the company of approximately €66.8 million. The shares began trading on the Mercato Telematico Azionario of the Italian Stock Exchange under the ticker “GHC” on November 9, 2018.

Credit Suisse and Equita SIM acted as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners for the offering.

DWF’s Corporate team advising on the deal was led by partner Jeremy Swift alongside senior associate Jemil Visram.

DWF Newcastle has advised leading investment bank Nplus1 Singer Advisory LLP in their capacity as a joint broker to Maistro plc on a secondary fundraising of up to £1m via placing of new shares together with an open offer and additional fundraising to raise up to a total of £2.2m.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer ('Freshfields') has advised China Shanshui Cement Group Limited (‘Shanshui’) on the resumption of trading of its shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (‘HKSE’). Trading in Shanshui’s shares was suspended in April 2015. In May 2018, the HKSE’s Listing Committee set a deadline of 31 October 2018 for Shanshui to take remedial action in respect of the trading suspension of its shares.

Herbert Smith Freehills is pleased to be advising Coronado Global Resources Inc. (Coronado) and Coronado Group LLC (Seller) on Coronado’s initial public offering (IPO) and $3.87 billion listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

The IPO comprised an Institutional and Broker Firm offer of CHESS Depositary Interests (CDIs) over shares of common stock in the company, in part issued by the Coronado and in part sold by the Seller. An IPO prospectus was lodged with ASIC on 24 September 2018.