Capital Markets Experience

• Advising A&D Pharma Holdings, the largest integrated pharmaceutical wholesale and retail business in Romania, on the listing of its Global Depositary Receipts on the Official List and their trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, a first for a Romanian company;
• Advising the Eaga Employee Benefit Trusts (‘EBTs’) on the £453 million flotation of Eaga plc on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange;
• Representing the US subsidiary of Itochu Corporation in connection with its USD 5 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme;
• Advising a UK Building Society on the renewal of its £3 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme;
• Advising the largest supermarket chain in Ukraine as borrower on a USD 75 million LPN transaction;
• Advising an international oil and gas producer on a USD 300 million and USD 120 million bond issue;
• Advising the Polish government on Eurobond offerings;
• Advising ING on its public offering of shares in ING Bank Śląski;
• Representing Tristan Oil in connection with Rule 144A and regulation S offering of over USD 500 million of its 10.5% Senior Secured Notes and related consent solicitation;
• Representing Anthousa Limited in connection with a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of its GDRs;
• Advising a HK GEM-listed company in successfully appealing against the decision of the Listing Division at the hearing of the GEM Listing Committee, which subsequently led to an amendment to the Listing Rules;
• Acting for a company incorporated in Mainland China with an initial market capitalisation of HKD 62 billion, on the listing of its H shares on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong;
• Advising a company incorporated in Bermuda with shares listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, on its financial restructuring involving negotiations of standstill arrangements with bank creditors and the granting of a secured facility of up to HK 80 million;
• Advising Black Sea Global Property Limited in connection with its recommended cash offer of EUR 50.8 million for the real estate investment fund Fabian Romania Limited, listed on AIM in London;
• Advising Société Générale on the first RON-denominated corporate bond issue to be listed on a foreign stock exchange by a Romanian company. The bond issue was launched on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange; and,
• Advising HeidelbergCement AG in connection with the mandatory delisting process required by Romanian capital markets law, in order to acquire the remaining shares of three Romanian entities.