Seb Orton > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
125 WOOD STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7AW
England
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Seb Orton
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner in the corporate team in London with extensive experience advising both private and public companies and financial institutions. His work covers a range of corporate issues with a particular focus on IPOs, secondary fund-raisings, M&A, including public company takeovers, and assisting listed companies on corporate governance and their continuing obligations.
Has wide cross-sector experience and has recently acted on a full range of issuer-side transactions from a FTSE250 Main Market IPO for a financial institution to a variety of smaller Main Market and AIM transactions in the retail and health and care sectors.
Career
Seconded to Investec’s Corporate Finance Group in 2004 and Citigroup’s ECM legal team in 2011 and has strong links with a variety of investment banks across the UK. Joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2019 from the City office of a leading international firm. Prior to that, he was a partner in the London office of a US law firm.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP represents nominated advisers, brokers and AIM-listed issuers on a broad range of equity transactions, including fundraisings, IPOs and reverse takeovers. Praised for his ‘excellent, pragmatic advice and expertise‘, Seb Orton leads the team which also includes Adam Carling, an energy and technology-focused partner who arrived from Bird & Bird LLP in October 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Social housing: tenant
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commodities disputes
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Court of protection
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Employment > Immigration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Transport > Travel
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Employment > Senior executives
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Trade finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)