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Capital Markets: Equity - UK

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins has a pre-eminent high-yield practice that regularly acts on market-leading transactions. The firm offers the largest team in Europe and is a first port of call for both sponsors and issuers. In addition, it has a standout equity offering that is able to draw upon international resources to advise on transactions throughout Europe, the USA and emerging markets.

Work Highlights

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  • Latham & Watkins advised ASDA (Bellis Finco) on the financing of its acquisition of EG Group's UK&I operations. This had an enterprise value of £2.27 billion.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Mark Austin
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Band 1
Mark Austin is widely recognised as a leading capital markets lawyer. He is equally at home advising issuers and underwriters, and regularly works on some of the largest transactions in the market.

He brings expertise, judgement and creativity to everything he does.

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Christopher Horton
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Christopher Horton brings a wealth of experience to his advice and representation on ECM matters. He regularly represents financial institutions and companies on IPOs and secondary listings.

Christopher is very hands-on in the details, always knows what the issues are and gets to the bottom of things very quickly.

He is a great and thoughtful lawyer.

Christopher has incredibly deep experience.

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James Inness
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Band 3
James Inness serves as co-leader of Latham's English law ECM practice. He is best known for his work advising underwriters on equity offerings.

He is easily able to distil issues and has a very pragmatic approach.

He is an exceptional lawyer.

James is extremely commercially minded.

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J David Stewart
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Band 4
David Stewart is noted for his emerging markets practice. He is experienced at advising sovereign issuance work, especially in the CIS region.

He is very commercially-minded and very client-friendly.

David is very aware of all historic and current developments and is very business-oriented.

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Manoj Tulsiani
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Band 4

Manoj Tulsiani capably advises underwriters, dealers and issuers on an array of debt transactions.

Manoj is very smart, technically brilliant and commercial.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Capital Markets: Debt

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J David Stewart
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Manoj Tulsiani
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Capital Markets: Equity

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Mark Austin
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Band 1
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Christopher Horton
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James Inness
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Band 3