International legal business DWF has acted for the sole global coordinator and nominated adviser to the £65m IPO of leading technology provider Tekmar Group plc.

Corporate partner Lisa Stavropoulos led the DWF team on the deal alongside solicitor Ciara Healy, advising Berenberg as the sole global coordinator and Grant Thornton as nominated adviser to Tekmar.

Tekmar, a market-leading technology provider of protection systems for subsea cable, umbilical and flexible pipe protection systems, began trading on AIM on Wednesday with a fundraising of £61.3m.

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie advised the Port of Tallinn on its initial public offering and admission to trading on the Baltic Main List of Nasdaq Tallinn. This is the first significant privatisation for the Government of Estonia and the first new listing on Nasdaq Tallinn in some time. The deal, with market capitalisation of €147.7 million, closed on Friday.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Arion Banki hf. (Arion Bank), a leading universal relationship bank in Iceland, and Kaupthing ehf. (Kaupthing) on the US$319 million (around ISK 33.9 billion) initial public offering of Arion Bank.

Skadden represented Japan-based Mercari Inc. in its 130.7 billion yen (US$1.2 billion) initial public offering and listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

King & Spalding’s London office represented the Anexo Group – a specialist integrated credit hire and legal services group – on its initial public offering (IPO) on AIM with a market capitalisation of £110 million.

The Group provides an integrated end to end service to the customer including the provision of a credit hire vehicle, upfront settlement of repair and recovery charges through to the management and recovery of costs and the processing of any associated personal injury claim. More information can be found here.

Davis Polk advised Puxin Limited on its SEC-registered initial public offering of 8,280,000 American Depositary Shares, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase 1,080,000 American Depositary Shares, for an aggregate price to the public of $140.76 million. Each ADS represents two ordinary shares of Puxin. The ADSs are listed on the NYSE under the symbol “NEW.”

Led by Frankfurt-based Partner Michael Schlitt and Counsel Susanne Lenz Hogan Lovells has advised GRENKE AG on its approx. € 200m capital increase.

THQ Nordic acquires, develops and publishes PC and console games for the global games market. The company is a major player within game and partner publishing with an extensive catalogue of over 100 owned franchises. THQ Nordic has a global publishing reach within marketing, sales and distribution, both online and offline. The company has a global presence, with its group head office located in Karlstad, Sweden and with operational offices in Vienna, Austria and Munich, Germany. The group has ten internal game development studios based in Germany, UK, USA and Sweden.

Jones Day advised GenScript Biotech Corporation (the “GenScript”, together with its subsidiaries, the “GenScript Group”), a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, on its US$255 million top-up placing of shares and Ms. Ye Wang, a director, president, and controlling shareholder of GenScript on her US$51 million placing of shares.

Cleary Gottlieb is acting as special product counsel to the initial purchasers, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, in Intelsat S.A.’s Rule 144A offering of $402.5 million of its 4.50 percent convertible senior notes due 2025.

The offering (including exercise in full of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase additional notes) closed on June 18, 2018.

Intelsat operates the world’s largest satellite services business, providing a critical layer in the global communications infrastructure.