Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

A key choice for a litany of UK-listed clients, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP advises issuers, banks, and sponsors on high-value and high-profile deals, including a number of Main Market IPOs on the London Stock Exchange. Recent engagements have seen the team include advising on the 3i Infrastructure placing, block sales for foreign issuers, SPAC IPOs, and emerging PIPE transactions. Practice co-heads Tom O’Neill and Michael Jacobs bring over 30 years of global experience, handling the full lifecycle of ECM transactions across private and public capital markets.

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Key clients

3i Infrastructure
Acacia Research Corporation
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Certares Opportunities
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Disruptive Capital Acquisition Company Limited
easyJet plc
Genus PLC
GIC
Goldman Sachs
Hammerson plc
HSBC
Jefferies
Jet2
JP Morgan
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Lazard
learnd
Marex Group plc
Moelis
Morgan Stanley
New Energy One Acquisition Corporation
Numis
OneWeb
PensionBee
Rothschild
RBC Capital Markets
Saga plc
SCA Investments Limited (t/a Gousto)
Severn Trent plc
Shaftesbury Capital
Synthomer plc
Tryg A/S
WH Smith PLC
UBS

Work highlights

Advised Marex on its $292 million US IPO.
Advised Jefferies and UBS as joint global co-ordinators and joint bookrunners on the English/US law aspects of the US $550 million IPO of shares and warrants of Admiral Acquisition Limited.
Advised Severn Trent as issuer on a £1 billion equity issue, the second largest equity issuance by a London listed company (and largest by a UK-incorporated issuer) in 2023.

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