Equity capital markets – small-mid cap

Kate Ball-Dodd

Kate Ball-Dodd has a wide-ranging corporate practice that encompasses corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (including public takeovers), equity fund raisings, joint ventures, and corporate governance. She advises a number of quoted companies and financial intermediaries on the UKLA Listing Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Prospectus Rules, the AIM Rules, the Takeover Code and general company law. Kate speaks regularly at external conferences on corporate governance and takeovers.

Charles Bond

Partner

Nick Davis

Nick Davis is a Senior Partner of Memery Crystal and a Partner in our Corporate department. Nick specialises in corporate finance with expertise in flotations, equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions. Nick advises on public company listings on both the Main Market and AIM and has extensive experience acting for other issuers, NOMAD/brokers and sponsors. Nick heads the firms’ natural resources team and has worked on many of the largest AIM fundraisings in the sector. He is the only lawyer who sits on the AIM advisory group and regularly speaks at seminars and conferences around the world in relation to the London capital markets. Nick also recently led the Memery Crystal team on the NEX listing of medicinal cannabis investment vehicle, Ananda Developments which was the second ever public listing of a cannabis vehicle. He has a personal interest in medicinal cannabis as a Trustee of the charity ‘Olivia’s Vision’, the UK’s leading Uveitis charity raising awareness of the condition from which his daughter, Olivia, suffers. Uveitis like many autoimmune diseases is being targeted for medicinal cannabis research. He has been widely quoted in both TV and print media in respect of the emergence of cannabis as an asset class.

Giles Distin

Giles is a partner in the Equity Capital Markets and Public M&A group in London. He is a specialist in advising on securities regulation and on listed company transactions, including takeovers and other stock market regulated M&A transactions (cross-border and domestic), initial public offerings, reverse takeovers, public equity fundraisings and other equity capital markets transactions involving companies listed on the Main Market or AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Giles was seconded for two years to the UK Takeover Panel and is one of a select number of lawyers in the UK with cutting edge experience of takeovers gained both in private practice and at the competent authority for regulating takeovers and mergers in the UK. Whilst in private practice, Giles has advised on over 50 public takeover bids. Example takeover transactions include the recommended takeover offers for Latchways plc, Plethora Solutions Holdings plc, Creston plc and Electric Word plc. He advises listed issuers as well as financial advisers and brokers such as finnCap, Nplus1 Singer, Peel Hunt, Shore Capital & Corporate, Smith Square Partners, Stockdale Securities and VSA Capital.

Lesley Gregory

Lesley Gregory is Chair and a Partner in our Corporate team at Memery Crystal As one of the few female chair at a UK law firm, Lesley Gregory has led Memery Crystal through several strong financial years, worked to expand the firm’s international offering and encourage an internal culture focused on diversity and core values – all while maintaining her top-rated corporate practice. She specialises in capital markets work including flotations and secondary capital raisings. She is a non-exec director of Aquis Exchange PLC (the growth market stock exchange). She acts for companies, nominated advisers and brokers and has acted for both UK and international companies from the US, Canada, South Africa and Australia including Petra Diamonds Limited and Gaming Realms Plc. Lesley also advises growth companies on alternative forms of raising finance, including retail corporate bonds for companies and clubs from Hotel Chocolat to the Jockey Club. In addition, she advises on acquisitions and disposals of public and private companies as well as on cross-border transactions. Lesley enjoys the challenges of working with entrepreneurs and growth companies and has previously acted as a non-executive director or special advisor to both public and private companies. Lesley has been a champion of the firm���s core values programme initiated in 2007, supporting policies and procedures to reinforce the firm’s emphasis on client care, professional development and a supportive workplace. Through her initiative, Memery Crystal became the first law firm to launch a Payroll Giving Scheme with Giveall, a HMRC approved platform enabling employees to donate to any UK charity through their salary on a monthly basis, commission free.

Clive Hopewell

Partner, CorporateAs a partner in our International Corporate Group based in London, I head up the International Capital Markets Practice across the firm.I coordinate the capital markets practice worldwide and facilitate teams in the various offices where we have capital markets lawyers, to work closely together, share know how and look out for opportunities for each other and clients.My own securities practice involves acting for institutions and issuers in respect of listings in London and elsewhere. I have extensive experience advising clients in a variety of sectors, with a particular emphasis on energy and utilities and technology and communications.

Jonathan King

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Jan Mellmann

Jan specialises in corporate finance and M&A work, with an emphasis on businesses operating in the Mining and Commodities, Oil and Gas, energy and transport sectors, including cross-border and domestic acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, equity and debt issues for public and private companies, private equity transactions, corporate restructurings and commercial agreements. Jan is recognised as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 UK noting Jan as “thoughtful, painstaking and committed to being a trusted adviser.”

Tom Nicholls

Tom is head of the firm's corporate department. With a particular expertise in equity capital markets and M&A, Tom has acted on over 60 IPOs on the London Stock Exchange. He is well known in the mid-cap sector where clients value his in-depth knowledge of the London market and highly commercial and pragmatic approach. His practice includes advising on IPOs and secondary issues (Main Market and AIM) both in London and internationally, public company takeovers, investment funds, domestic and cross border private M&A and advising quoted companies on their obligations to the FCA and the London Stock Exchange. Tom acts both for listed issuers as well as for investment banks and financial advisers in their capacity as sponsors, nomads and brokers. Reflecting the varied constituents of the London markets, he has advised clients across a number of sectors but has a particular focus on both the technology and natural resources (oil and gas, mining and minerals and energy) sectors. With regards to M&A, Tom regularly advises on acquisitions and disposals involving both private and listed companies. He also advises clients on general company law issues including corporate governance for public and private companies as well as private fundraisings, joint ventures, investment agreements and a range of commercial contracts. Tom is consultant editor of "A Practitioner's Guide to the AIM Rules" published by Sweet & Maxwell and is ranked as a key individual for Capital Markets (mid-cap) by both The Legal 500 and Chambers UK directories.

Ed Nisbet

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Karin Kirschner

David Dowding

Specialising in corporate acquisitions and disposals and corporate finance, David has broad experience advising both corporate clients and investment banks on equity capital markets transactions (Official List and AIM). David has particular experience in the healthcare and energy and resources sectors. Clients value his responsiveness and his measured approach to complex issues. David advises on a broad range of corporate finance and M&A (public and private) matters. As well as regularly advising private companies, he is a trusted adviser to both listed corporates and investment banks. David has a wealth of experience on flotations and secondary offerings, both issuer and bank-side. David has spent time on secondments in Paris and with the RBS Hoare Govett M&A/Equity Originations teams.

Clementine Hogarth

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Paul Arathoon

Paul specialises in corporate finance, predominantly for public companies. He has a particular focus on the natural resource, financial services and technology sectors. Paul acts on capital market transactions for issuers and brokers on the Main Market and AIM, including debt and other non-equity capital issues. He also advises on public company takeovers both for bidders and targets and has a particular expertise in advising overseas companies on bids for UK companies subject to the Takeover Code. He also regularly provides governance and regulatory advice to listed companies, including in relation to the Market Abuse Regulation and on shareholder and boardroom disputes.Paul is noted as a “next generation lawyer” in the Legal 500 2017 and 2018 editions for small and mid-cap flotations. He has also written for City AM and been quoted in the Financial Times.He also acts for private companies on a range of matters including section 110 reorganisations, and shareholder/ board disputes. He is a member of the Quoted Companies Alliance Legal Experts Committee.

Fiona Millington

Neil Nicholson

Head of UK Corporate department

Martin Penn