Private equity
Advised AIMCo on its £300 million joint venture acquisition and development financing for the BBC Television White City site with Mitsui Fudosan and Stanhope.
Advised Ontex International on its £1 billion acquisition by TPG and Goldman Sachs.
Advised AMP Capital on its successful £200 million consortium bid with JV partner 3i Infrastructure for Danish emergency and rescue services provider Esvagt.
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Public and private M&A
Advised J.P. Morgan Cazenove as lead financial adviser and sole sponsor on Micro Focus International plc's $8.8 billion merger with the software business segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprises.
Acted for Vectura Group (bidder) on its recommended merger with peer company Skyepharma plc, valuing Skyepharma at £440 million.
Advised Xchanging on takeover offers for it by Capita, Ebix and its eventual £480 million takeover by Computer Sciences Corporation.
Advised Xchanging on its £64.1 million acquisition of the European operations of US-headquartered insurance software company Agencyport Software.
Advised Ontex International on its £1 billion acquisition by TPG and Goldman Sachs.
Advised Babcock International Group on its £350 million acquisition of Devonport Management from Kellogg Brown & Root Holdings, Balfour Beatty and The Weir Group.
Acted for Lloyds Banking Group on the sale to Goldman Sachs of a portfolio of finance assets and equity interests (book value of £1.2 billion).
Tax Systems plc
Advised independent UK private equity firm Bowmark Capital on its £114 million public-to-private takeover of AIM-listed Tax Systems plc.
Equity capital markets
Acted for life and pensions consolidator Chesnara plc on its £70 million placing and open offer in connection with its €160 million acquisition of L&G Nederland.
Advised Jefferies International as sponsor and joint bookrunner on Oxford Biomedica's £10 million firm placing, placing and open offer.
Advised selling shareholder Elliott Advisers in connection with GAME Digital's £110 million main market IPO and subsequent block trades.
Advised issuer Cambian Healthcare on its £190 million main market IPO.
Advised J.P. Morgan Cazenove, financial adviser to Invensys plc on its £625 million return of cash following the £1.7 billion disposal of its Rail Division to Siemens.
Advised issuer Bayfield Energy Holdings on its £55 million raise and listing on AIM.
Advised Central Asia Metal's £40 million raise and listing on AIM.
Macquarie Capital and Distribution Finance Capital Holdings plc
Advised nominated adviser and broker, Macquarie, on the £96 million AIM IPO of DFC.
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Corporate
Acted for Vectura Group on its recommended merger with peer company Skyepharma plc, valuing Skyepharma at £440 million.
Acted for life and pensions consolidator Chesnara plc on its £70 million placing and open offer in connection with its €160 million acquisition of L&G Nederland.
Advised Xchanging on takeover offers for it by Capita, Ebix and its eventual £480 million takeover by Computer Sciences Corporation.
Issuer's counsel to Cambian Healthcare on its £190 million main market IPO.
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