Transaction: Bates Wells acted for Shore Capital as broker to AIM-quoted Northcote Energy Limited in connection with its placing of new shares to raise approximately £1.5 million.
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Transaction: Bates Wells acted for the selling shareholders of iter8 Inc., on the circa £20 million sale of Iter8 to AIM-quoted Quindell Portfolio Plc.
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Transaction: Bates Wells advised the sellers of a South-East based independent child fostering agency on its pre-sale group restructuring and subsequent multi-million pound share sale to a private equity backed company. Key management re-invested part of their proceeds of sale by taking a stake in the acquiring company. The pre-sale restructuring involved the gift of certain freehold properties to a newly created charity and a corresponding lease back of the properties to the target.
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Transaction: Bates Wells acted for AIM-quoted Feedback plc on the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Feedback Data to AIM-quoted Belgravium Technologies plc. Bates Wells negotiated the sale documentation and helped produce the circular to shareholders to approve the transaction.
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Transaction: Bates Wells acted for Beaumont Cornish and Beaufort Securities in connection with Frontier’s £1.8m placing of new shares and admission to AIM.
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Transaction: Bates Wells acted as English law advisors to Buzzi Unicem on its €220 million equity-linked bond issue. The bonds were admitted to trading on the “Third Market”, (MTF), the non-regulated market of the Vienna Stock Exchange. UniCredit acted as Sole Global Coordinator and, together with Commerzbank and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, as Joint Bookrunners. Banca IMI acted as Co-Bookrunner.
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Transaction: Bates Wells advised AIM listed Eleco plc on the sale of its precast concrete interests comprising two freehold properties, and the business and assets of its wholly owned subsidiary, Milbury Systems Limited to F.P. McCann Limited for £2,500,000. Eleco’s other precast concrete business, Bell & Webster Concrete Limited, was shortly thereafter placed into Administration on 6 January 2014.
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Transaction: Bates Wells acted for NUS Holdings Limited on its recommended cash offers to acquire all of the allotted and issued A shares and B shares in the capital of NUS Services Limited, that it did not already own. NUS Services is the commercial arm of the National Union of Students. It provides significant high value purchasing services, commercial development and infrastructure support to the NUS and Student Unions across the country. The offers have now become unconditional as to acceptances.
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Transaction: Bates Wells advised Australian company, Access Innovation Media UK Limited, on its inward investment in the UK through its acquisition of Bee Communications Limited, a UK speech captioning business.