Squire Patton Boggs has been advising City of London Group plc with respect to its £5 million equity fundraising, the transfer of trading of the company's shares from the main market of the London Stock Exchange plc to AIM and amendments to its investing policy. Admission to AIM occurred earlier today.

City of London Group plc is an investment company focused on providing finance to the SME sector, including professional services firms. It does this through investments in companies providing trade finance, lease finance and loan finance.

The Squire Patton Boggs team was led by corporate partners Matthew Doughty and Giles Distin and also included associate Dhruv Chhatralia and financial services partner Paul Anderson.