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Travers Smith LLP has acted for Liberum Capital Limited in its capacity as placing agent and sole bookrunner on the £50 million placing programme issue of ordinary shares by Honeycomb Investment Trust plc (the "Honeycomb Placing") and the placing of £8.1 million ordinary shares by Aurora Investment Trust plc (the "Aurora Placing").
Travers Smith LLP has further demonstrated its commitment to gender equality in business and sport by partnering with the leading UK charity the Women’s Sport Trust.
Following the London Stock Exchange's consultation on the AIM Rules to reflect the introduction of the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") (see your briefing), AIM Regulation has, as expected, published some guidance in its newsletter "Inside AIM".
Travers Smith LLP is delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 Travers Smith Art Programme developed in association with the University of Westminster.
We are delighted to announce that Travers Smith has been named “Pension Lawyers of the Year” at the UK Pensions Awards.
Travers Smith corporate finance partner Adrian West and corporate finance associate Lucy Stephenson have advised Liberum Capital Limited in its capacity as nominated adviser and broker to Hotel Chocolat Group Plc ("Hotel Chocolat") in connection with its £167 million IPO and £55.5 million placing of new and existing shares.
Travers Smith LLP has advised all selling shareholders, including private equity firm Livingbridge and the founders of Frank Recruitment Group (‘FRG’), on the sale of FRG to TPG Growth.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Muzinich & Co. Limited (“Muzinich”) in relation to the provision of a debt package totalling £18million to Phaidon International (“Phaidon”), a specialist recruiter operating in the US, Europe and Asia.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Alteri Investors, a leading specialist investor in and lender to the retail industry, on the acquisition of the outstanding shareholder loan notes and the entire share capital of Gajan Holdings, the ultimate holding company of clothing retailers Austin Reed, CC and Viyella.
Travers Smith LLP has advised the Pensions Infrastructure Platform on the successful first closing of PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure LP (the "Fund") with commitments from a number of UK pension funds.
Travers Smith LLP has advised the Pensions Infrastructure Platform on the successful first closing of PiP Multi-Strategy Infrastructure LP (the "Fund") with commitments from a number of UK pension funds.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Luxembourg-based H&F Wings Lux 1 S.à r.l ("H&F") on the disposal of the remainder of its stake in Hostelworld Group plc, the world's leading hostel-focused online booking platform.
Travers Smith LLP has advised existing client Zoopla Property Group Plc, the digital media and lead generation platform that owns and operates some of the UK's leading online consumer brands including Zoopla, uSwitch and PrimeLocation, on the acquisition of Property Software Group (PSG) from LDC and certain management sellers for up to £75m.
Travers Smith LLP represents Kaupthing ehf. and Jóhannes Rúnar Jóhannsson (a member of Kaupthing’s former Winding-up Committee) in a claim brought in the Commercial Court in November 2014 by Vincent Tchenguiz and related parties against Kaupthing, Mr Jóhannsson, Grant Thornton UK LLP and two partners of Grant Thornton UK LLP, Stephen Akers and Hossein Hamedani.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Phoenix Equity Partners ("Phoenix") on their investment in The Travel Chapter Group (the "Travel Chapter") alongside the Morris family, the Travel Chapter's founder owners.
The text of the much anticipated new EU General Data Protection Regulation has finally been voted through just a few hours ago by the European Parliament. All that remains is for its publication in the Official Journal, likely to be mid-May, and the two year implementation period will run from this date.
A Travers Smith team led by corporate partner Andrew Gillen advised on Maxcyte Inc's IPO on AIM, with Panmure Gordon Limited acting as NOMAD to the company.
Travers Smith has advised international software and application management solutions group Micro Focus on its proposed acquisition of Serena Software, a leading provider of enterprise software focused on providing Application Lifecycle Management products for both mainframe and distributed systems.
A Travers Smith team led by private equity partner, Will Yates, has advised long standing client Darwin Private Equity on the sale of Bromford Industries to Liberty Hall Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defence industry.
Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding and senior counsel Dan McNamee have advised Investec, as sole bookrunner, underwriter and financial adviser, on the placing by Dechra Pharmaceuticals plc that was made to part fund the conditional acquisition of the entire share capital of Putney, Inc, a leading developer of generic companion animal pharmaceuticals in the US.