Nabarro has advised longstanding client, Urban&Civic, on its listing on the Official List through a reverse takeover of AIM-traded Terrace Hill Group.

Urban&Civic was founded in 2009 by a successful team led by Nigel Hugill and Robin Butler, who previously ran Chelsfield and Lend Lease. It has gone on to acquire strategic land assets at Alconbury, Cambridge and Rugby, Warwickshire with backing from GI Partners.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised JP Morgan Cazenove and J&E Davy as joint bookrunners on the €399.8 million placing and open offer of shares of Irish property investment company, Green REIT plc (Green REIT).

Green REIT is listed on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange and the Irish Stock Exchange. The offer was made by way of institutional placing in, amongst other places, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and in the US.

Mark Lloyd Williams, corporate partner comments:

DLA Piper advised the underwriters for Scynexis, Inc., a drug discovery and development company, in its US$63 million initial public offering. RBC Capital Markets and Canaccord Genuity are acting as joint book-running managers. JMP Securities is participating as lead manager in the offering.

Hogan Lovells advised American Homes 4 Rent, the nation’s largest publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) focusing on single-family rental homes, in its underwritten public offering of 5.50% Series C Participating Preferred Shares. The offering, and a concurrent private placement, raised total gross proceeds of approximately US$190 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses.

Ashurst has advised Cambian Group Plc ("Cambian" or the "Company"), a newly incorporated holding company for a group of specialist behavioural health services providers, on its successful £190 million initial public offering ("IPO") on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. The IPO comprises a new issue of approximately 8.8 million ordinary shares at an issue price of 225 pence per ordinary share and the sale of approximately 86 million shares by its substantial shareholder, private equity house GI Partners.

Herbert Smith Freehills is advising Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, Sydney Branch and UBS AG, Australia Branch in relation to their role as joint lead managers of Spotless Group Holdings Limited’s (Spotless) initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Shearman & Sterling represented City Office REIT, Inc. in its $72.5 million initial public offering of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange. City Office REIT Inc., a newly organized corporation formed to acquire, own and operate high-quality office properties located within the United States, was sponsored by Canadian private equity firm Second City Capital Partners, a multi-fund private equity firm that invests in real estate and conventional private equity. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Wunderlich Securities, Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.

Clifford Chance has advised IMMOFINANZ AG and BUWOG AG in connection with the spin-off of BUWOG AG from IMMOFINANZ AG and the listing of the shares of BUWOG AG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the Vienna Stock Exchange and the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

The Investment Funds Team at Lawrence Graham LLP, the London-based business law firm, has advised Africa Opportunity Fund Limited (AOF) on its move from AIM to the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange and US$29.2 million fundraising by way of a placing of C Shares.  AOF invests in value, arbitrage and special situations opportunities derived from the continent of Africa.

The Lawrence Graham team advising AOF included corporate partners Nick Heather and John Reed, corporate senior associate Kris Rogers and corporate associate Sam Lester.

Cravath represented GasLog Ltd. in connection with its US$116 million registered offering of common shares. GasLog Ltd. is an international owner, operator and manager of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers providing support to international energy companies as part of their LNG logistics chain. The shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction closed on April 16, 2014.