Macfarlanes has advised the management of share registrar firm Equiniti on its London stock market listing.

Equiniti is backed by private equity house Advent, which will hold 32 per cent of the company after listing.  Shares in Equiniti are to be sold at £1.65 each, giving it a market capitalisation of £495m.

The Macfarlanes team was led by corporate M&A partners Stephen Drewitt and Harry Coghill, with tax partners Rob Collard and James McCredie and tax senior counsel Ian Shaw.