International law firm McDermott Will & Emery advised Aumann AG, one of the world's leading manufacturers of innovative specialized machinery and automated production lines with a focus on electro-mobility, in connection with a capital increase from authorized capital.  A total of 1,250,000 new shares were issued at a price of EUR 64.00 in a private placement by way of an accelerated bookbuilding process.  The subscription rights of the existing shareholders were excluded.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Goldman Sachs and Barclays, as underwriters, in the recent US$420 million offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETC) by Spirit Airlines, the Florida-based ultra-low-cost carrier.

The proceeds will be used by the airline to meet its financing needs for 12 Airbus aircraft scheduled to be delivered over the next 12 months.

High-profile IPO is expected to be one of the largest in Germany for many years.

Latham & Watkins is advising Siemens AG on the Initial Public Offering of its medical technology unit. The IPO is planned for the first half of 2018 on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and is expected to be one of the largest IPOs in Germany for many years.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Mirriad Advertising plc,  a global technology company and developer of native in-video advertising, on its successful AIM market IPO.  Following admission, Mirriad will have a market capitalisation of approximately £63.2 million.

As part of the IPO process, joint bookrunners Numis Securities Limited and Baden Hill (a trading name of Northland Capital Partners Limited) raised £26.2 million of which £25.4 million is for the benefit of the Company.

Sidley advised BBVA Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as joint bookrunners, on Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria’s offering of US$1 billion Non-Step-Up Non-Cumulative Contingent Convertible Perpetual Preferred Tier 1 Securities listed on the Irish Stock Exchange.

Macfarlanes has advised main market listed commercial property fund Regional REIT on a secondary fundraise of up to £100m. Regional REIT intends to use the proceeds of the offering to, among other things, acquire two contracted property portfolios.

The Macfarlanes team for this matter was led by corporate and M&A senior counsel Mark Slade, with assistance from tax partner Jeremy Moncrieff and corporate and M&A solicitor Alex Critchley.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Deloitte LLP, as sponsor and financial adviser, Liberum Capital, as joint bookrunner and sole underwriter, and Zeus Capital, as joint bookrunner and sole broker, in connection with the £70 million firm placing and placing and open offer of new shares by Xafinity plc in connection with its acquisition from Punter Southall Holdings Limited of its actuarial consulting, pensions administration and investment consulting businesses for consideration of up to £150.3 million.

Osborne Clarke has advised Canaccord Genuity Limited, finnCap Ltd and Cenkos Securities plc on the successful £35 million AIM market secondary fundraise for Seeing Machines Limited, an industry leader in computer vision technologies which enable machines to see, understand and assist people.

The secondary fundraise was by way of a placing with institutional investors using an accelerated bookbuild and by direct subscription. In addition, the Company will provide an opportunity for certain existing shareholders to subscribe for further shares.

Travers Smith LLP has acted for FTSE250 property company, Assura plc (Assura), on its oversubscribed £300 million firm placing, conditional placing and open offer and £10.7 million offer for subscription of new ordinary shares at an issue price of 57 pence per share, which completed on 6 December 2017.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Greencoat UK Wind PLC (Greencoat UKW), the leading listed renewable infrastructure fund, in connection with a £340 million equity offering which forms part of Greencoat UKW’s new share issuance programme and the acquisitions in 2017 of eight wind farms:

    five wind farms (80% stake in Deeping St Nicholas – 16.4MW, Red House – 12.3MW, Glass Moor – 16.4MW, Red Tile – 24.6MW and Bicker Fen – 26.7MW) from EDF Energy Renewables for a total consideration of £98 million;