The Americas
North America
We have a team of US qualified lawyers based in London and Hong Kong. Increasingly, European corporate finance transactions of any significance — including securities offerings and mergers and
acquisition transactions — involve a US component. Success in the US markets is often vital to the success of these deals
and that means understanding US requirements and integrating the management of these smoothly into the overall management
of the deal.
Our team of US lawyers provides national and US corporate finance advice on a wide range of US securities matters including:
- SEC-registered public offerings in the United States.
- Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings.
- Traditional “private placements” into the United States.
- The establishment of American Depository Receipt and Global Depository Receipt programmes.
- Ongoing SEC reporting requirements.
The US corporate finance group also advises on the US law aspects of a variety of other cross-border corporate finance transactions, including:
- Tender offers and exchange offers.
- Mergers, acquisitions and trade sales.
- Joint ventures.
- Private equity and venture capital transactions.
The team ranks especially highly for Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings, having advised on a number of high profile transactions such as advising OPAP S.A. (the Greek national lottery and sports betting company) and the Hellenic Republic, in connection with OPAP’s €1.3 billion international offering and listing on the Athens Exchange and Kazakhmys PLC, Kazakhstan's largest producer of copper, on the company's £2.5 billion initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange.
The team also advises on the US law aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions including tender offers, US registration rights and other public and private M&A matters and also on US venture capital and private equity funds and transactions.
Equally, we provide US companies and institutions with legal and regulatory advice in connection with their activities and transactions in the jurisdictions where we operate.
Latin America
We provide international legal services to Latin American clients engaged in international financings and other transactions,
as well as to a wide range of clients engaged in transactions in Latin America. The combination of the breadth and depth of
our expertise in the region, knowledge of relevant industry sectors, our Spanish and Portuguese speaking lawyers and our close
relationship with a network of correspondent lawyers in the region enables us to advise on Latin American transactions easily
and cost-efficiently.
Our experience in the region includes project and other financings, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, general corporate, collective investment schemes and dispute resolution.