Elliott, Giles P.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Giles Elliott advises companies and financial institutions on an extensive range of corporate transactions including equity and equity-linked fund-raisings, M&A/takeovers, joint ventures, and investments. He co-chairs the Firm's Capital Markets Practice.

Representative transactions include advising The British Land Company on the sale of a 50 percent interest in one of the largest U.K. shopping centers; the IPO of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, a FTSE 100 mining company; and a number of transactions for J.F. Lehman & Company, including the acquisition of Racal Instruments Limited from Thales and the inertial products business of BAE Systems.

Giles' financial institution clients include Altium, Collins Stewart, J.P. Morgan Cazenove, and Jefferies & Co.

Giles has been repeatedly recommended in the Chambers Europe and Chambers UK guides and also is recognized in The Legal 500 UK.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A

Representative Cases

• "The Two Cities Challenge" raises funds for U.K. Cancer Research , (2008)
• Altium Capital and Numis Securities completes £37.5 million of Ordinary Shares in an institutional placing and open offer by Luminar Group
• Altium Capital completes IPO of £130.6 million of Equity Shares
• Aqua Bounty completes IPO of £74 million of Common Stock on AIM and Regulation S offering
• Arlington Securities restructures business
• Ashtenne forms Ashtenne Industrial Fund Limited Partnership
• British Land agrees to new investment partner for Meadowhall , (2009)
• CBaySystems issues £12.7 million (US $25.2 million) of Ordinary Shares in an institutional placing and Rule 144A offering
• Citigroup Global completes $125 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds in a Regulation S offering by Punj Lloyd Limited
• Collins Stewart completes an institutional placing and open offer of £22 million of Ordinary Shares by Greenwich Resources PLC
• Collins Stewart completes IPO of £63.5 million of Ordinary Shares by Polymer Logistics N.V.
• Collins Stewart finalizes institutional placing and open offer of £4.55 million of Ordinary Shares by Ten Alps Plc
• Connaught acquires UK Fire (International)
• Connaught finances acquisition of National Britannia for £91 million , (2009)
• Connaught plc acquires AE Williams
• Connaught seeks advice on admission of entire share capital to trading on the Official List of the London Stock Exchange
• Credit Suisse First Boston underwrites £55.2 million IPO in the U.K. and Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings by Ark Therapeutics Group plc , (2009)
• DM plc completes open offer of £1 million of Ordinary Shares in connection with its acquisition of PDV Limited , (2009)
• Ennstone acquires Enneurope
• Ennstone acquires Johnston Group
• Ennstone acquires Waveney Asphalt Company
• Ennstone completes an institutional placing and open offer of £27.5 million of Equity Shares
• Ennstone completes an institutional placing and open offer of £50.77 million of Equity Shares
• Ennstone disposes of the Johnston Engineering Group of Companies
• ENRC completes $3 billion IPO with offering on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange , (2009)
• First Rand provides loan facility to SABMiller
• Hampden completes IPO of £15 million of Ordinary Shares on AIM
• Hansteen acquires €330 million German industrial portfolio
• Hansteen completes £200.8 million of Ordinary Shares in institutional placement and open offer , (2009)
• IBM UK acquires Schlumberger's business continuity and disaster recovery division , (2009)
• Inion Oy completes IPO for £38 million on the Official List of the U.K. Listing Authority
• Investec Bank (UK) completes tender offer for £9.1 million by Alphameric PLC for Compass Software plc , (2009)
• Investec involved in numerous equity issues, including £135 million IPO of Patsystems PPL and $245 million placing and open offer for Intec Telecom Systems.
• J.F. Lehman acquires business unit of BAE Systems , (2009)
• J.F. Lehman and Thomas Weisel Capital acquire Thales Instruments
• J.F. Lehman and Thomas Weisel Capital sell Racal Instruments to EADS
• J.F. Lehman portfolio company reduces capital , (2009)
• J.F. Lehman sells AIS Global Holdings for $375 million , (2010)
• J.F. Lehman sells Racal Acoustics in MBO
• J.F. Lehman sells Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions Group to Aeroflex Inc.
• Jefferies act as dealer manager in $34.5 million of Convertible Coupons in Regulation S offering by JBF Industries , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as deal manager in $50 million of 3.5% Unsecured Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds and 6.75% Cumulative Compulsorily Convertible Preference Shares in Regulation S offering by Radico Khaitan Limited , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as deal manager in Regulation S placement of $50 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds by Bilcare Limited , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as dealer manager and initial purchaser in £65 million of 5.5% Guaranteed Convertible Bonds in Regulation S offering by Torex Retail plc , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as dealer manager and underwriter in $33 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds in Regulation S offering by The Simbhaoli Sugar Mills Limited , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as dealer manager in $45 million of Zero Coupon Convertible Bonds in Regulation S offering by Nahar Industrial Enterprises Limited , (2009)
• Jefferies completes a Regulation S offering of $34.5 million of 2.5% Convertible Bonds in Regulation S offering by JCT Limited
• Jefferies International acts as dealer manager and initial purchaser in $250 million of 6.0% Convertible Bonds in a Regulation S offering by Adani Enterprises Limited , (2009)
• Jefferies International acts as dealer manager and initial purchaser in $33 million of 3.0% Unsecured Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds in a Regulation S offering by Zenith Infotech Ltd. , (2009)
• Kayterm acquires Jarvis Hotels
• Kelso Place Asset Management and TMP Turnaround Capital complete IPO for £49.4 million of Ordinary Shares by Sepura PLC on the London Stock Exchange
• Lioncourt Capital finances acquisition of Jarvis Hotels
• Mineral Securities Limited is acquired by CopperCo Limited for $218 million
• Morgan Stanley acquires Executive Offices Group for $386 million
• Morgan Stanley provides equity bridge in respect to Lumiere Holdings LP
• Net Transmit & Receive completes reorganization , (2009)
• Nomad and Broker complete institutional placing of £5.77 million of Ordinary Shares by Worldspreads Group plc and admission to trading on AIM
• Nomura Code completes IPO of £6 million of Ordinary Shares by Arthro Kinetics PLC
• Nomura International completes IPO on AIM by Vectura Group
• Nomura invests $336 million in Catalina
• Piper Jaffray and Nomura Securities underwrite IPO on AIM by Cozart , (2009)
• Piper Jaffray places £58 million of Ordinary Shares on the London SEAQ and AiM in institutional placing, vendor placing and open offer by Vernalis PLC
• Prometheus Energy Company lists £45 million market cap on introduction to AIM
• River Court Properties obtains loan facility for acquisition of Goldman Sachs' European headquarters
• Savills invests in VoxVue
• Scarborough Minerals acquired by Mineral Securities Limited and completes admission of entire issued share capital to trading on AIM
• Space Maker Self Storage completes sale to Babcock & Brown
• TEG Environmental completes IPO for £3 million of Equity Shares on AIM
• TEG Group completes institutional placing for £11 million of Ordinary Shares , (2009)
• TEG Group places £8 million of Ordinary Shares in institutional placing and offer for subscription
• Wachovia Capital sells British Salt to Cheshire Salt Limited

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

• Cambridge Univ - England
• College Law - London
• Warwick University - England

Published Works

• The Main Market & AIM, Third Ed., 2009
• 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 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

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