Our Equity Capital Markets department is rated in the top tier by leading legal commentators.
We act across all industry sectors advising issuers, major investment banks, underwriters and sponsors in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the United States on domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions.
We have extensive experience in initial public offerings (on the main markets in Ireland, the UK and the United States and on AIM/ESM), rights issues, reorganisations and all types of securitisations and secondary placings of shares. We continually work with clients to find novel solutions to the issues which concern publicly listed companies. We have recently devised innovative and unique restructuring, redomiciliation and capital reduction solutions for publicly listed clients, facilitating access to the capital markets, elimination of historic deficits and the creation of positive reserve surpluses.
We advise many Irish and international public companies, as well as sponsors, ESM Advisers and Nomads of Irish plcs, on their ongoing compliance and regulatory obligations pursuant to the Listing Rules, ESM Rules and AIM Rules and the Transparency, Market Abuse and Prospectus regimes. We are also retained on a regular basis by the Irish Stock Exchange and The Irish Takeover Panel to provide regulatory advice. In addition, we provide securities law and financial regulation advices to investors in Irish financial institutions and other public companies.
We have substantial experience advising investors on all aspects of public takeovers including corporate and taxation structuring, stake-building and debt and equity placings. Our Equity Capital Markets team also advises investors on their ongoing regulatory obligations including public and private disclosure requirements under domestic and European law.
We advise companies and Boards on a wide range of corporate governance issues, including board evaluations, board composition and powers, and committee charters. Members of our team also regularly present at conferences and workshops on corporate governance issues facing public companies.
We also work closely with our Debt Capital Markets and Financial Regulation colleagues on large-scale cross border debt and capital restructuring and refinancings.
WILLIAM FRY