Equity Capital Markets advisory

If you're looking to trade on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, AIM, or the AQSE Exchange, we can support you in the role of sponsor, nominated adviser, or corporate adviser: providing corporate finance and regulatory guidance, and project-managing your IPO from the very beginning.

As an independent financial adviser working across the Main Market, AIM, and ASQE, we can help you with market selection and IPO readiness, and provide generalist corporate finance advice supported by our M&A and debt advisory teams.

We’re independent of investors and provide impartial advice to management and shareholders. 

We have well-established relationships with all the major stockbrokers and investment banks, and we can help you select the most appropriate partner for your company's needs.

We can support you on multiple aspects of your IPO, including transaction tax, equity reward, restructuring carve-out, and governance advice.

We work with management and shareholders to provide independent, objective views on the optimal strategy to achieve your exit or fundraising goals.

We manage 'dual track processes' which give a company and its shareholders optionality to simultaneously assess an IPO, a trade sale and/or
a private equity transaction.

A multi-track approach can help identify the best option in a volatile market, or when seeking to maximise valuation by creating tension on multiple
exit routes.

As an independent adviser able to support all funding routes, we’re agnostic on outcome and best-positioned to determine the right solution for your business.

Our IPO readiness services optimises a company’s value by having in place the expected public company characteristics, controls, and
governance that potential investors and regulators demand.

Advance planning for an IPO saves time and cost, maximises the probability of a successful process, and enables management teams to focus on continuing to grow the business.

We bring together our knowledge of equity capital markets with our industry-leading M&A transaction experience to provide clients with expert regulatory and financial advice.

We provide strategic advice to the boards of public companies to help them consider the best growth or exit strategy for their business.

We advise across the whole spectrum of public company M&A, being takeovers, public-to-private transactions, reverse takeovers, de-mergers, carve-outs, and acquisitions and disposals.

We can also act as corporate finance adviser to acquirers of public companies, offering buy-side M&A advisory, and Takeover Code advice on the acquisition of public companies.

We can support you on all aspects of public M&A, from deal evaluation, funding, bid tactics, and strategies, defence strategies, valuation and pricing, and implementation and process management.

We advise management on preparing defence strategies for public companies to proactively mitigate the risks of a hostile approach, or to respond to such approaches.

Whether you're a buyer of a public company, or a public company being bought, we can act as your Takeover Code financial adviser and help navigate you through the acquisition or sale process.

Public company takeovers require the application of a detailed understanding of the relevant market and takeover regulations to deliver successful outcomes.

We advise companies on the application of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers in situations such as Rule 9 waivers or concert party breakups, as well as acting as independent Rule 3 advisers.

For companies already on market, we're able to deliver independent, pragmatic advice, and solutions to your company.

We act on a retained basis to companies on the Main Market, AIM, and AQSE, working alongside your other advisers and brokers.