Squire Patton Boggs’ Capital Markets team has advised Peel Hunt on the AIM IPO of Curtis Banks Group plc, a leading provider of Self-Invested Pension products, principally SIPPs (Self Invested Personal Pension schemes) and SSASs (Small Self Administered Pension Schemes). Curtis Bank, which employs approximately 200 people in the UK, has raised £7.5 million in capital through the issue of new equity and had a market capitalization on float of £85 million. The Squire Patton Boggs team was led by Corporate partner Giles Distin and included Nina Martyres and Emma Mason. Peel Hunt was acting as AIM nominated adviser and broker to Curtis Banks.

Squire Patton Boggs has a leading global equity capital markets advisory team, with an additional specialist focus on both the Alternative Investment Market and the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.  The IPO for Curtis Banks follows the team’s recent completion of a fundraising for AIM-listed Sphere Medical Holding plc (a medical device company), advising Sphere Medical’s joint brokers, Peel Hunt and finnCap, and also its advising, in March and April, of AIM-listed client Accumuli plc, an independent IT specialist, on a recommended takeover bid by Manchester-based IT security company NCC Group plc.    Squire Patton Boggs’s team advising on the Sphere Medical fundraising included Giles Distin, Rob Shakespeare and Emma Mason and the team advising on the Accumuli takeover included Giles Distin, Rob Shakespeare, Roya Soudbakhsh, Emma Mason, Patrick Ford and Victoria Carpenter.