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International securities offerings and listings are complex and require innovative solutions in increasingly competitive markets for capital.

We provide the world's leading companies, institutional investors and strategic shareholders and investment banks with advice on transactions and policy, empowering them with confidence to manage capital and mitigate risk.

As our practice is balanced between issuer and underwriter mandates, our clients receive commercial, insightful advice from capital markets specialists with technical expertise and a complete understanding of both sides of transactions. We advise on the full range of debt, equity and equity-linked capital markets transactions across jurisdictions globally. Working together with experts in competition, disputes, employment, finance, real estate and tax, we identify and solve all challenges that may arise.

Transaction types include initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary fundraisings (including rights issues, placings and open offers), investment grade bonds, Euro medium-term note (EMTN) programmes, regulatory capital, liability management, exchangeable and convertible bonds, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-registered offerings, high-yield bonds, Sukuk, sovereign and quasi-sovereign issues and structured securitisations (see securitisation and structured finance).

Our full service offering encompasses a wide range of products and sectors including banks, energy, infrastructure and transport, mining, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, real estate and technology, media and communications.

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11th March 2022
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17th December 2021
The Treasury has published a summary of responses to its consultation on a proposed new...

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