Equity Capital Markets

• Singer Capital Markets as nominated adviser and joint bookrunner to Eckoh plc on its £31 million acquisition of Syntec Holdings Limited and its oversubscribed £13 million placing;
• Raven Property Group Ltd on its share buy-back from Invesco Asset Management Ltd;
• Peel Hunt and Auctus Advisors, on the US$11.7 million cash-box placing for premium listed Pharos Energy plc. Peel Hunt and Auctus Advisors acted as joint bookrunners on the transaction;

 Public M&A

• Playtech plc on its acquisition of approximately 70.6 per cent of the issued share capital of Snaitech S.p.A, a leading operator in the Italian gaming and betting market which is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. The aggregate enterprise value of the transaction was €846m;
• Playtech plc on the sale of its financial trading division, Finalto, to Gopher Investments, a Cayman-based investment vehicle affiliated with investment and advisory firm TT Bond Partners, for US$250 million;
• Secure Income REIT plc on its recommended £3.9 billion merger with LXi REIT plc;
• Playtech plc on its recommended £2.1bn takeover offer from Aristocrat Leisure. The offer valued the issued and to be issued share capital of Playtech at £2.1 billion, giving Playtech an enterprise value of £2.7 billion;

Private M&A

• Bally’s Corporation on the sale of its interactive business in Asia and certain other international markets to a company formed by members of the management;
• Bally’s Corporation on its acquisition of Aspers (Newcastle) Limited, which owned the Aspers Casino in Newcastle, from Aspers Holdings Limited;
• The shareholders of ME+EM Limited on an ‎investment led by Highland Europe which valued ME+EM at more than £130 million.