Taylor Wessing has advised Grand City Properties S.A. on its successful issue of EUR 150 million senior, secured five year convertible bonds convertible into new and/or existing ordinary shares in Grand City Properties. Following an accelerated book building process, the nominal coupon for the convertible bonds was fixed at 1.50 % p.a.  J.P. Morgan was acting as Sole Global Coordinator, with Berenberg and Deutsche Bank as Joint Bookrunners, and Anoa Capital S.A.

Global law firm Eversheds has advised Flybe Group plc (“Flybe”), a company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, on raising £150 million by way of a Firm Placing and Placing and Open Offer.

Flybe is Europe’s largest independent regional airline and the proceeds of the fundraising will be used to build resilience within the business and to drive profitable growth.

Slaughter and May is advising ISS, one of the world's leading facility services companies, on the refinancing facilities which have been put in place in connection with its proposed IPO of ordinary shares. If it goes ahead the IPO will reportedly be one of the biggest Nordic flotations since the financial crisis.

Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised three separate companies – The Parkmead Group plc (Parkmead), KSK Power Ventur plc (KSK) and Frontera Resources Corporation (Frontera), on their recent secondary fundraisings, raising over £60 million in aggregate. Stephenson Harwood provided legal guidance to the companies throughout the entire process, from the decision to place the shares, to the finalisation of the fundraisings.

Herbert Smith Freehills is advising SG Fleet Group Limited (SG Fleet) in relation to its initial public offering and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The offer consists of an institutional offer, broker firm offer and priority offer (Offer) and values SG Fleet at A$454.2 million at the offer price of A$1.85 per share.

International law firm, Osborne Clarke has advised Actual Experience plc, the analytics as a service company, on its admission to the AIM market (AIM:ACT).

Osborne Clarke has been advising Actual Experience since 2009, the year of its incorporation.

The Osborne Clarke team was led by Partner Patrick Graves who was assisted by Associate James Davies.

Linklaters has advised HgCapital and Manx Telecom on Hg's strategic exit from its investment which was achieved by way of an IPO of Manx Telecom's shares and listing on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange. Manx Telecom is a leading UK telecommunications operator based on the Isle of Man.

As part of the transaction Manx Telecom's existing debt package was refinanced with Linklaters also acting on the refinancing.

Linklaters previously advised HgCapital on the acquisition of Manx Telecom from Telefonica in 2010.

Burges Salmon has advised the energy storage and clean fuel company, ITM Power plc, an AIM quoted company, on its initiative to raise approximately £10 million by way of a placing of 33,333,333 new ordinary shares at 30 pence per share.

The placing was arranged by Zeus Capital Limited and is on a non pre-emptive basis to existing and new institutional investors. Admission is proposed to occur on 24 February 2014, conditional on shareholder approval at a general meeting to be held on 21 February 2014.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has represented underwriters Citigroup, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, and BTG Pactual S.A. in the $829 million secondary offering by Banco de Chile (NYSE: BCH), one of Chile’s largest banks.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the underwriters on the global offering and listing of HK Electric Investments on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which commenced trading today.

The firm also advised lenders on the provision of two syndicated loans (worth a cumulative total of approximately US$4.8bn) in connection with the listing.

The gross proceeds from the IPO were US$3.1bn, making it the largest business trust listing to date in Hong Kong.