Equity capital markets – mid-large cap

Global Practice Area Leader for Capital Markets

Global Chair of Equities.  Advises clients on the life cycle of their equity capital markets activities, from early-stage private placements through to IPOs and secondary market capital raisings, including accelerated bookbuildings and rights issues, as well as cross-border M&A and debt capital market transactions. He advises across multiple sectors, including fintech, financial services and consumer sectors, and markets, including the UK, MENA and Benelux region. He is also a member of the firm’s cross-practice ESG team, with a particular focus on ESG disclosure and governance issues, and has been at the forefront of the development of the European SPAC market, advising sponsors and underwriters in connection with SPAC IPO and de-SPAC transactions on the Amsterdam and London stock exchanges.

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Global Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets. Advises clients on the life cycle of their equity capital markets activities, from early stage fundraising through to IPOs and secondary market capital raisings, including placings and rights issues, as well as on debt capital markets transactions. She has led the teams on many of the firm’s most complex cross-border capital markets transactions and has experience across many industry sectors.

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Stephen A. Thierbach is a US-qualified corporate partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. A senior U.S. securities lawyer, he advises issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on complex, innovative and multi-jurisdictional offerings of equity, equity-related and debt securities. He has a broad capital markets transactions practice, with a focus on initial public offerings and secondary offerings, and has represented corporates, investment banks, private equity firms and governments in transactions in the UK and other jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

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Mike is a US corporate and capital markets partner based in London. His practice focusses on equity and debt capital markets, public M&A and SEC advisory work. He is the co-head of the SEC compliance function at Linklaters, and established the firm’s SEC Transactions and Compliance Group. Mike is SEC counsel to some of the largest international companies listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ, and has significant experience advising on listings and IPOs on the major stock exchanges across the US, Europe and South Africa, event-driven rights issues and equity placings, private capital raising and debt capital markets transactions.

Partner; Rebecca is Head of our Equity Capital Markets practice and Co-Head of our Data Privacy practice. Rebecca’s corporate practice consists of advising clients on M&A transactions, both public and private, joint ventures, equity issues, initial public listings and long term commercial contracts. She also advises on day-to-day company law and corporate reporting and governance matters. Rebecca advises a number of clients on all aspects of Data Privacy, including on stand-alone compliance queries, in corporate transactions, e-commerce, commercial contracts and global investigations. Rebecca is a contributing author to Tolley’s Company Law Service, Privacy Laws and Business, and sits on the Consulting Editorial Board of Lexis PSL.

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Claire Keast-Butler is a partner in Cooley's London office. Her practice focuses on capital markets transactions. She represents issuers, investment banks and investors on initial public offerings and secondary offerings. She also regularly advises listed companies on corporate and securities law matters and corporate governance, and has considerable experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

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Partner - Head of Skadden’s European capital markets practice

James is a corporate partner based in London and is Global Co-Head of our Equities practice and advises companies, financial institutions and funds on a wide range of corporate, M&A and capital markets matters. He specialises in particular in equity capital markets transactions and  in recent years has advised Wise on its London direct listing, Alphawave IP, Allied Irish Banks, TSB Banking Group and Countryside Properties, among others, on their London IPOs, and the underwriters on the IPOs of Oxford Nanopore Technologies,  Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks, Royal Mail and ConvaTec. He also operates at the forefront of regulatory developments across the equity capital markets space and regularly advises banking industry groups in this area.

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