Ms Kate Ball-Dodd > Mayer Brown International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

With a reputation for being ‘tenacious, deal driven and understanding the client’s commercial imperatives’, Mayer Brown International LLP represents a host of issuers, investment banks, sponsors, placement agents and selling shareholders on the full-suite of ECM transactions. The group’s regular workload includes public offerings and private placements, stock exchange listings, capital reorganisations, share buy-backs, and demergers, to name a selection. Practice head Kate Ball-Dodd is an expert on corporate finance, M&A, equity fund raisings and joint ventures, among others.

Mayer Brown International LLP represents both issuers and underwriters on a wide array of ECM work, from public offerings and private placements, to stock exchange listings, rights offerings, and share buy-backs – among other matters. Practice leader Kate Ball-Dodd is noted for being ‘technically able, hands-on and (ensuring) that the team delivers a quality work product’. She has extensive experience in corporate finance work, M&A, equity fund raisings, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. Rob Flanigan is praised by clients for his experience in EMEA ECM, and Iberian ECM in particular.

Operating across various sectors, the ‘super-efficient, unflappable’ and ‘great’ lawyers at Mayer Brown International LLP have experience handling a range of M&A transactions including asset and share sales and purchases, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts. Heading up the practice is the ‘responsive, creative, solution focused and very commercial,’ Kate Ball-Dodd, who is regularly engaged by public companies and financial intermediaries for corporate governance, transactional, listing rules and Takeover Code expertise, and Perry Yam, who works with investors, management teams and investee companies. Corporate finance and transactional lawyer Richard Page and Rebecca Bothamley, who focuses on cross-border M&A and equity capital market transactions, are also recommended.