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Clifford Chance LLP
Clifford Chance LLP is home to a multidisciplinary equity capital markets practice group with a deep bench of experts, covering IPOs, secondary offerings, rights issues and GDR issues. Vastly experienced acting for both banks and issuers, the team leverages a firm-wide international network to provide clients with corporate finance options available across various European and Middle East jurisdictions. A ‘senior statesman within the ECM sector’, Adrian Cartwright co-leads the team and specialises on the issuance of shares and global depositary receipts in the international market. Fellow co-head Simon Thomas has extensive experience in IPOs, rights issues, global depositary receipts and equity placings, including those in emerging markets. Christopher Roe is a key name to note for the full-range of UK equity capital markets transactions. The highly regarded equity capital markets lawyer John Connolly retired in 2023.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘A balanced practice acting for both issuers and banks. They have some standout associates and the partners are excellent.’
‘Adrian Cartwright is a senior statesman within the ECM sector and is able to leverage this experience to guide clients through tricky issues.'
- 'James Koessler is an exceptional associate. He has strong technical capabilities and is measured in the advice he gives.’
Key clients
- Pfizer Inc.
- Americana Restaurants International PLC
- Gotion High Tech Co., Ltd
- CLSA Limited ("CLSA")
- BNP Paribas
- Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited
- Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) Limited
- Haitong International Securities Company Limited
- Ningbo Shanshan Co., Ltd.
- UBS AG London Branch ("UBS"),
- HSBC Bank plc ("HSBC")
- China International Capital Corporation (UK) Limited ("CICC")
- Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
- Emirates NBD
- EFG Hermes
- EJF Investments Limited
- PensionBee Group PLC
- Citibank, N.A
- Swiss Re
- Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd
- Jiangsu Eastern Shenghong Co., Ltd
- HSBC Continental Europe
- BofA Securities
- Goldman Sachs
- J.P. Morgan
- Deutsche Bank
- Morgan Stanley
- Barclays
- Société Générale
- UniCredit
- Crédit Agricole CIB
- Citi
Work highlights
- Advised Pfizer Inc. on the demerger and listing of Haleon plc in London and New York, the largest listing in London for many years and one of the largest ever demergers in Europe.
- Advised Americana Restaurants International PLC on its initial public offering. This global offering is the first ever dual listing on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and the Saudi Stock Exchange, and consisted of three concurrent offer tranches: a UAE retail offer, a KSA retail offer, and a global institutional offer.
- Advised UBS, HSBC and CLSA (as joint global coordinators) and CICC and HTI (as joint bookrunners) on Ming Yang Smart Energy Group Limited's global depositary receipts offering and listing on the Shanghai-London Stock Connect segment of the London Stock Exchange.
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Practice head
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Adrian Cartwright, Simon Thomas