Public companies today face an increasingly complex regulatory environment. With evolving laws and heightened scrutiny from regulators, staying compliant is more challenging than ever. Companies must navigate a maze of regulations while also focusing on strategic growth and effective governance. The stakes are high, and the consequences of non-compliance can be severe, including financial penalties and reputational damage.

At Shoosmiths, we provide expert advice to UK and international clients on a full range of transactions involving public companies. These include equity capital markets transactions, such as initial public offerings and secondary fundraisings, as well as public takeovers and supporting public companies with complying to the rules and regulations applicable when running a listed company. From niche listings to global equity offerings for large multi-nationals, we work across key industry sectors including the energy and infrastructure, technology, life science and mobility markets.

• advising Centaur Media Plc on the sale of leading legal publication The Lawyer to Legal Benchmarking Group (LBG), a portfolio company of Triple Private Equity

• Hipgnosis, music IP investment and song management company, on its $1.7bn takeover bid from US private equity fund Blackstone

• Main Market listed Ten Entertainment Group plc, one of the UK’s largest ten-pin bowling operators, on its £287 million takeover by US private equity firm Trive Capital

• AIM-listed Smoove plc, a mortgage software provider, on its takeover by Digcom UK Holdings, an indirect subsidiary of Australian property platform PEXA Group, in a deal worth £30.8m, by way of a scheme of arrangement

• supporting the directors of Rotala Group Ltd, a privately owned investment vehicle formed specifically for the purpose of acquiring West Midlands-based bus operator Rotala PLC

• on the initial public offering (IPO) of Tan Delta Systems plc whose shares were admitted to trading on AIM in August 2023 with a market capitalisation of £19 million.