Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Regis Healthcare Limited (Regis) on its successful A$485.8 million initial public offering (IPO) on the Australian Securities Exchange, with shares in Regis closing 10% higher than the offer price on the opening day of trading.
XXL ASA, a leading sports retailer with stores and e commerce in Norway, Sweden and Finland, was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange on 3 October 2014.
Ratos AB has listed Inwido AB, Europe’s largest supplier of innovative, environmentally adapted windows and doors, on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm on 26 September 2014.
Allen & Overy has advised the syndicate of underwriters (J.P Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, HSBC Bank Middle East, EFG Hermes, Emirates NBD and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi) on the initial public offering of Emaar Malls Group (EMG) and its listing on the Dubai Financial Market. This was the second largest IPO ever in the UAE and the Gulf’s largest since 2008.
Germany - Baker & McKenzie advised Montagu Private Equity ("Montagu") comprehensively on the sale of their stake in Euro Medic International ("Euro Medic") to Ares Life Sciences ("Ares"). Ares is a Waypoint Capital owned investment partnership and previous majority shareholder of Euro Medic. The transaction is expected to be completed in 2014, subject to relevant regulatory approvals.
White & Case LLP has advised SPIE on its €1.2 billion initial public offering on the regulated market of Euronext Paris. Initiated by its shareholders Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Ardian and la Caisse de Depot et de Placement du Quebec, trading in the company's shares is expected to begin on October 10, 2014. The prospectus received the visa from the French financial markets authority on September 26, 2014 and the maximum amount of the offer is approximately €1.2 billion, including a €525 million capital increase.
Cravath represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities, Piper Jaffray and Jefferies, in connection with the US$92 million initial public offering of Boot Barn Holdings, Inc., the largest and fastest growing specialty retailer of western and work wear in the United States. Boot Barn Holdings is a portfolio company of private equity sponsor Freeman Spogli & Co. The shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction closed on November 4, 2014.
New York, NY-- Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo Securities and Morgan Stanley as joint book-running managers for Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc.’s (NYSE: BXMT) public offering of class A common stock.
Hogan Lovells represented TESARO, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRO), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, in its closing of a US$201.25 million public offering of three percent convertible senior notes due in 2021, including full exercise of the underwriters’ option.
Mayer Brown has advised AIM listed Velocys plc, the company at the forefront of smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GLT), on its equity fundraising of £52 million by way of a placing.
Velocys will use the proceeds of the placing to further accelerate the adoption of the company’s technology following announcement of its first commercial project.