Macfarlanes has advised Alcuin Capital Partners LLP on the raising of its fourth fund, The Fourth Alcuin Fund Limited Partnership, which closed at its hard cap with commitments of £150m.
This new fund will continue the established strategy of Alcuin Capital’s predecessor funds by making growth capital investments and supporting management buy-outs in smaller-middle market companies based in the UK.
Ashurst advised WCM Beteiligungs- und Grundbesitz-AG ("WCM AG"), Frankfurt am Main, on its successful €156 million rights issue as well as on the acquisition of several real estate portfolios.
DLA Piper has advised Kainos Group plc (Kainos) and Market Tech Holdings (Market Tech), on two successful capital markets transactions in two days.
The firm has advised Kainos Group plc, a digital technology company and provider of IT services and software solutions, on its LSE Main Market IPO. The transaction gives Kainos a market capitalisation of approximately £164 million. Investec acted as sponsor in relation to the IPO.
Delphi has been legal advisor to Oniva Online Group Europe AB (publ) ("Online Group") when they conducted a directed share issue of approximately SEK 23 million.
Online Group is an international supplier of innovative services in online marketing and hosting. Online Group has approximately 200 employees in Sweden, the UK, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany and the United States. The parent company Oniva Online Group Europe AB is listed on NASDAQ OMX First North.
Penser Bank acted as financial advisor to Oniva Group.
Delphi has been legal advisor to Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB (publ) ("Enviro") when they conducted a rights issue of units which initially brought Enviro approximately SEK 51 million.
Scandinavian Enviro Systems has a patented technology to recover carbon black, oil, steel and gas from waste tires. Enviro has production of recovery in-plant and sale of constructions with associated site licenses to external parties. Scandinavian Enviro Systems is listed on NASDAQ OMX First North.
Penser Bank acted as financial advisor to Enviro.
Delphi has been legal advisor to Hövding Sverige AB (publ) when implementing a diversification of ownership through a public offering of new shares in connection with a listing on NASDAQ First North.
The offering, amounting to about 60 million SEK, was fully subscribed and, as a result of the great interest from the public, drawing of lots was applied in the allotment of shares. The number of shareholders after the issue amounts to over 1,850 and the first day of trading for the shares was yesterday, 16 June 2015.
Delphi has been legal advisor in connection with the listing of SpectraCure AB. First trading day was 1 July 2015. SpectraCure was formed in 2003 as a spin-off company from Lund University departments for medical laser applications and physics. The company is focused on cancer treatments with medical systems using laser light source and a photosensitizing drug, which are referred to as "Interstitial Photodynamic Therapy", PDT.
Delphi has assisted G&W Fondkommission that acted as financial advisor in the connection with the listing.
Care Property Invest, a B-REIT specialised in Belgian healthcare properties, and listed on Euronext Brussels, successfully completed on 22 June 2015 a capital increase with irrevocable allocation rights for an amount of EUR 38 million.
Care Property Invest is the first public B-REIT to realise a capital increase using the special capital market technique of the “irrevocable allocation right”.
The Eubelius team advising Care Property Invest on this transaction was led by Lars Van Bever and Jan Lambertyn.
With a team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at the commercial law firm's Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised German Startups Group Berlin GmbH & Co. KGaA on its IPO in the Entry Standard of Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Berlin-based investment company focuses on young, rapidly growing companies ("startups"). The proceeds of the IPO will serve to expand the investment portfolio.
Spontacts GmbH, the leading recreation and leisure community in Germany and Switzerland, has increased its share capital by close to a seven-figure euro amount from its existing shareholders. The shareholders include the Jochen Schweizer Group and Media Ventures GmbH, as well as the founders and members of the management of the company. King & Wood Mallesons advised Spontacts on this capital increase with respect to corporate and tax law issues.