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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
125 WOOD STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7AW
England
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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 works with a series of investors and brokers, including Cavendish Capital Markets, as well as AIM-listed Plcs in the real estate, life sciences, and tech sectors to handle IPOs and financings. The team also specialises in advising Oxfordshire-based regional clients on their acquisitions by listed companies, with Seb Orton serving as a key contact for public M&A and takeover matters. Orton co-heads the team with Adam Carling, who handles corporate financing and M&A transactions for clients in the energy and TMT sectors.