Simmons & Simmons has advised J.P. Morgan Securities plc (“J.P. Morgan Cazenove”) and Goldman Sachs International as joint bookrunners and J.P. Morgan Limited as sponsor on a Placing and Open Offer to raise £448m by JUST EAT plc (“JUST EAT”).

JUST EAT, the world's leading online and mobile marketplace for takeaway food, announced on 21 May 2015 a Placing and Open Offer to raise approximately £450m through the issue of 105,397,759 new ordinary shares.

Simmons & Simmons has advised J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Numis as Joint Financial Advisers, Joint Sponsors, Joint Bookrunners and Joint Brokers in connection with the £340 million rights issue and Class 1 acquisition by Kier Group plc (“Kier”).

Setterwalls are legal advisers to Collector in connection with the listing of Collector on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Adairs Limited (Adairs) on its successful A$220 million initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the ASX on 17 June 2015 with a market capitalisation of A$400 million at the offer price.

Adairs is a leading specialty retailer of homewares and home furnishings in Australia, which operates 131 stores Australia wide across a multi-format physical store network.

Noerr has advised Home24 AG on its first round of financing in the new legal form of an “Aktiengesellschaft” (public limited company), in which Home 24 AG has gathered a total of € 120 million. By this transaction, Europe’s largest online furniture shop, which in this financing round as well as in the preceding change in legal form from a “GmbH” (limited liability company) to an “Aktiengesellschaft”, was able to rely on its own legal department led by its General Counsel, Dr.

Trowers & Hamlins is delighted to have advised Valleys to Coast Housing, known as V2C, on a £25 million private placement with a single UK investor.

V2C provides affordable homes to rent and buy across the County Borough of Bridgend.  In 2003, the not-for-profit housing association was the first ever to undertake a large-scale voluntary transfer of local authority homes in Wales.

Squire Patton Boggs’ specialist Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team has been advising Numis Securities the Nominated Adviser and Broker to Hunters Group, which today announces its intention to seek admission of its shares to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. The expected admission date is 2 July 2015. 

Vinge is advising Swedbank AB (publ), financial advisor in connection with the offering of preference shares in A Group Of Retail Assets Sweden AB (publ) to the public in Sweden and to Swedish and international institutional investors. The preference shares are expected to be listed on Nasdaq First North on 7 July 2015.

Vinge’s team consists of Jesper Schönbeck, Sabina Börjesson and Marcus Brosché.

Vinge advises Pandox Aktiebolag (publ) in relation to its listing on Nasdaq Stockholm. A prospectus was published on 8 June 2015 and the first day of trading on Nasdaq Stockholm was 18 June 2015. The price in the offering was set at SEK 106 per share, corresponding to a market value of all shares issued by Pandox of SEK 15,900 million. The total value of the offering amounts to SEK 6,360 million, assuming that the over-allotment option is exercised in full.

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised new client Adgorithms on its US$125m initial public offering (IPO) on AIM which completed today.

Adgorithms, whose operations are based in Israel, has developed artificial intelligence based algorithmic technology which it is deploying in the high growth online advertising market.

The transaction is being led by Corporate Finance Partners Murdoch Currie and Alex Latner, assisted by Matt Oliver and Tom White.