Simmons & Simmons is advising NM Rothschild & Sons Limited as sponsor and Investec Bank plc and Liberum Capital Limited as joint bookrunners on a £75.1m firm placing and placing and open offer by Costain Group plc (Costain), a leading tier one engineering solutions provider to the UK infrastructure, energy and water markets. The purpose of the capital raising is to enable Costain to take greater advantage of the opportunities in its chosen markets and thereby accelerate the group's medium and long term growth prospects.

The Simmons & Simmons team comprises Corporate partner Chris Horton, Corporate supervising associate Sarah Clarke, and Corporate trainee Susan Ledger, Tax partner Nick Cronkshaw, and Tax supervising associate Zoe Arnautov and Tax associate Laura Allwright.