Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Giles Elliott is co-head of the capital markets practice at the Firm, in charge of the European side of the practice. Giles has experience in corporate finance, public and private fund-raisings, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions. He advises private and public companies, banks, and other financial institutions on corporate and commercial issues that includes: acting for issuers and sponsors/underwriters on IPOs and secondary fund-raisings; acting for companies on acquisitions and disposals, specifically cross-border deals; advising companies on hostile and recommended public takeover bids; and providing general advice on company and commercial issues to corporate clients.

His recent transactions involve advising:

• Credit Suisse First Boston and Nomura International on the initial public offering on the Official List of Ark Therapeutics Group plc and related global offering

• Connaught plc's introduction to the Official List

• Inion Oy, a Finnish medical device company, on its initial public offering on the Official List (he also advises Inion Oy with ongoing compliance and general corporate matters)

• Morgan Stanley Domestic Real Estate Funds on its acquisition of Executive Offices Group

• J.F. Lehman & Company in the acquisition of Racal Instruments Limited and subsequent disposal of the underlying businesses

• Ennstone plc in its contested offer for Johnston Group plc

• Ennstone plc in the disposal of the North American and European engineering business of Johnston Group plc and

• Kayterm plc in its offer for Jarvis Hotels plc.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A

Representative Cases

• Acquisition Finance Facility for Jarvis Hotels plc
• Acquisition of AE Williams
• Acquisition of British Salt
• Acquisition of Executive Offices Group
• Acquisition of Inertial Products business of BAE Systems
• Acquisition of Jarvis Hotels
• Acquisition of National Britannia Group
• Acquisition of Thales Instruments
• Acquisition of Waveney Asphalt Company
• Admission of Mineral Securities Limited to trading on AIM
• Admission to Trading
• Bilcare Limited's Regulation S Zero Coupon Convertible Bond Offering
• Bridge Equity Participation
• Buyout
• Corporate Restructuring
• Disposal of Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions Group
• Disposal of the Johnston Engineering Group of Companies
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering
• Initial Public Offering by Ark Therapeutics Group plc
• Initial Public Offering by Arthro Kinetics plc
• Initial Public Offering by Cozart plc
• Initial Public Offering by May Gurney Integrated Services plc
• Initial Public Offering by Polymer Logistics N.V.
• Initial Public Offering by Vectura Group plc
• Institutional Placing
• Institutional Placing and Admission to Trading on AIM by Worldspreads Group plc
• Institutional Placing and Open Offer
• Institutional Placing and Open Offer
• Institutional Placing, Vendor Placing and Open Offer by Vernalis Plc
• Introduction/Listing on AIM
• Issuance of Shares by Catalina II
• Issuance of Shares by VoxVue Corporation
• Loan Facility
• Loan Facility
• Management Buyout
• Mandatory Tender Offer for Enneurope
• Numerous Primary and Secondary Issues
• Placing and Offer for Subscription
• Placing and Open Offer
• Placing and Open Offer by Greenwich Resources Plc
• Placing and Open Offer by Ten Alps Plc
• Regulation S Convertible Bond Offering
• Regulation S Convertible Bond Offering and Issuance of Preference Shares by Radico Khaitan Limited
• Regulation S Convertible Bond Offering by JCT Limited
• Regulation S Convertible Coupons Offering by JBF Industries Inc.
• Regulation S offering by Adani Enterprises Limited
• Regulation S Offering by Torex Retail plc
• Regulation S Zero Coupon Convertible Bond Offering by Nahar Industrial Enterprises Limited
• Regulation S Zero Coupon Convertible Bond Offering by Punj Lloyd Limited
• Regulation S Zero Coupon Convertible Bond Offering by The Simbhaoli Sugar Mills Limited
• Reorganization
• Sale of Meadowhall , (2009)
• Sale of Racal Instruments
• Sale to CopperCo Limited
• Serov Acquisition
• Tender Offer for Compass Software plc
• Tender Offer for Johnston Group
• Thales Acoustics Acquisition
• The Two Cities Challenge , (2008)
• U.K. Property Fund

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Law Society of England and Wales

Education

• College Law - London

Published Works

• Enforcement on Aim: Light touch is firming up, International Financial Law Review, 2008
• Proposed Amendments to Companies Act 2006 to Implement the Shareholder Rights Directive, 2008
• UK and French Proposals on Reporting of Large Shareholdings in Listed Companies, 2008
• The Main Market & AIM, 2007
• The Official List, AIM & The Propectus Directive: A Guide to Listing Equity Securities on the London Markets and the Continuing Obligations of Listed Companies, 2005
• Liabilities, Deficits and Buy-Outs: The Impact of Pensions on Corporate Finance, 2005
• UK implementation of the Prospectus Directive, 2005

Address

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London EC4Y , United Kingdom

Phones

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