Equity Capital Markets

• Wheaton Precious Metals, on its admission to the standard listing segment of the Official List and the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange;
• Industrials REIT on its transfer from the specialist fund segment to the premium list of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and migration to a secondary listing on the Main Board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange;
• Stifel Nicolaus Europe as nominated adviser, broker and sole bookrunner for AEX Gold Inc. in relation to AEX’s £42.5 million placing and admission to AIM;
• Kape Technologies plc on its US$115 million cash-box placing and separate retail offer for subscription through online platform PrimaryBid;
• 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;
• The founders of a FinTech and E-commerce focused SPAC on its proposed IPO on Euronext Amsterdam;
• Greatland Gold plc in its upsized US$35 million Placing;
• Amiad Water Systems, on an investment of £17.6 million through a subscription of shares by FIMI, a leading Israeli private equity firm;
• Singer Capital Markets as sponsor and settlement agent to The Investment Company plc in relation to the change of investment manager, board changes, buyback and issue of new shares;
• Peel Hunt and Tamesis Partners on the US$17.5 million cash-box placing for AIM listed Serabi Gold plc. Peel Hunt and Tamesis acted as the joint bookrunners on the transaction;
• Peel Hunt, finnCap and FirstEnergy Capital on the approximately £16.6 million placing for Independent Oil and Gas plc;
• 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

• Industrials REIT on its £500 million take private by Blackstone;
• Secure Income REIT plc on its recommended merger with LXi REIT plc;
• London-listed Playtech plc on its agreed takeover by Australian company Aristocrat Leisure. The offer values the issued and to be issued share capital of Playtech at £2.1 billion and gives Playtech an enterprise value of £2.7 billion;
• Daejan Holdings PLC, a FTSE 250 company, in connection with the recommended public offer by the controlling Freshwater concert party, valuing the target at just over £1.3 billion;
• Redde on its £680 million all-share merger with Northgate;
• 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 Italia n gaming and betting market. The aggregate enterprise value of the transaction was €846 million.

Private M&A

• Land Securities Group plc on its disposal of One New Street Square to Chinachem Group for a total consideration of £349.5 million;
• Land Securities Group plc on its disposal of 21 Moorfields to an investment vehicle managed by global real estate and investments group, Lendlease;
• Land Securities Group plc on its disposal of 1 and 2 New Ludgate to Sun Venture for a cash consideration of £552 million;
• Aedifica NV/SA on the £450 million acquisition of a portfolio of 93 care homes portfolio from Lone Star. The deal was notable as being one of the largest UK healthcare transactions of 2018;
• On the sale of privately owned Express Vending Group, a commercial vending machines supplier within London & the UK, to KKR backed Selecta AG, a European vending services operator;
• Keppel DC REIT on its acquisition of a Dutch company owning a data centre in the Schiphol area of Amsterdam for approximately €30 million;
• Aedifica UK Limited, the UK-subsidiary of Aedifica NV/SA, on its £61 million acquisition of Sapphire Properties 2016 Limited, a special purpose vehicle holding a portfolio of 5 fully operational purpose-built care homes in the UK;
• Aedifica NV/SA on the internalization of its local property manager, Layland Walker Limited;
• On the sales of Star Payroll, the payroll software solution provider, and Star Professional Software Solutions, a leading global provider of practice management software for professional firms.