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Equity Capital Markets
Our equity capital markets lawyers advise companies, advisers, and investors on transactions across UK public markets. We support clients through IPOs, secondary fundraisings, and complex corporate actions, combining technical expertise with clear, practical guidance to help businesses access capital, meet regulatory obligations, and operate confidently in public markets.
Overview
Equity capital markets transactions demand precision, market awareness, and timely decision making. We work with issuers, nominated advisers, brokers, financial advisers, and other market participants across the full lifecycle of ECM activity. Our experience includes guiding companies through admissions to trading, secondary fundraisings, and the regulatory obligations that follow.
Our expertise spans IPOs, reverse takeovers, placings, retail offers, open offers, pre-IPO reorganisations, de-listings, debt capital markets work, and transactions subject to the Takeover Code (including schemes of arrangement and contractual offers). We have a strong track record in supporting companies joining UK markets for the first time, including international businesses seeking access to UK investors.
Beyond transactional mandates, we advise listed and quoted companies on day-to-day corporate governance, capital reorganisations, shareholder approvals, court-sanctioned reductions of capital, share buy-backs, incentive schemes, and compliance with the UK Market Abuse Regulation and Prospectus Regime. Our dedicated governance unit ensures clients receive focused support on maintaining robust governance frameworks throughout their listed journey.
We work with companies across diverse sectors – including technology, natural resources, leisure, healthcare, financial services, and insurance – and understand the sensitivities that accompany public market activity. Our team also provides training and insights to market participants, delivering seminars and bespoke sessions on topics such as listing regime reform, prospectus regime changes, share capital management, cash shells, and regulatory compliance.
Every company’s path to listing or ongoing compliance is different. We help clients navigate the regulatory and commercial landscape with tailored, pragmatic solutions that minimise disruption and support long‑term growth in public markets.
Featured experience
AIM admission and fundraising
Advising European Green Transition plc (AIM: EGT) on its April 2024 AIM admission and associated £6.46 million fundraising and its subsequent acquisition and £7.5 million fundraising in March 2026
AIM admission
Advising Allenby Capital and Ocean Wall on All Things Considered Group plc's (now called ATC Music Group plc) (AIM: ATC) move to AIM and associated £8.6 million fundraising
Scheme of arrangement
Advising IQGeo Group plc (AIM:IQG) on is £333m sale to KKR by way of a court‑approved scheme of arrangement
Avacta fundraisings
Advising Zeus Capital on fundraisings totalling, in aggregate, £54m for Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT)
FAQs
We work across the full range of ECM transactions, including IPOs, reverse takeovers, secondary fundraisings, Takeover Code transactions, de-listings, pre-IPO restructurings, and debt capital markets work. Our experience covers all UK public markets, with a particular strength in AIM transactions.
Yes. We provide ongoing advice to listed and quoted companies on general meetings, annual general meetings, capital reorganisations, share buy-backs, court-sanctioned reductions of capital, governance, incentive schemes, UK MAR compliance, and day-to-day regulatory matters. Our dedicated governance unit supports clients throughout their listed lifecycle.
We have extensive experience bringing overseas companies to UK markets. Our ECM lawyers guide international issuers through market entry, regulatory requirements, corporate structuring, and investor expectations, helping them navigate the unique aspects of the UK listing environment.
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Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
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