Allens Arthur Robinson have a leading-edge capital markets practice, with extensive experience advising issuers and underwriters on IPOs, placements, rights issues, tier 1 capital raisings, hybrids, structured products and stapled securities.
Our team has advised on some of Australia’s largest capital markets matters in recent years, demonstrating our team’s strength as one of the leading equity capital markets practices in Australia. It is this expertise that has resulted in us being ranked in the top-tier by Asia Pacific Legal 500 2009/10 Edition.
In recent years, funding transactions have been completed in record times to enable corporations to fund transactions or take advantage of attractive acquisition opportunities, or to respond to changed market conditions which have required them to raise funds to repay or refinance debt. Our clients’ trust in our ability to guide them, with a seamless and minimum-fuss approach, through the preparation and implementation of transactions has led to Allens advising on most of the significant capital raisings in 2008 and 2009.
Between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2009, Allens advised:
- on 6 of the top 7 capital raisings in the Australian market.
- on 13 of the top 25 capital raisings in the Australian market.
- the issuer counsel on 3 of the top 5 capital raisings in the Australian market.
- the issuer counsel on 4 of the top 10 capital raisings in the Australian market.
- the issuer counsel on 11 of the top 25 capital raisings in the Australian market.
Listen to Anna Lenahan, Partner, discuss ASIC's easing of capital raising requirements or to Robert Pick, Co-head of Equity Capital Markets speak on the strong trend in equity raisings.
The team's work was recently recognised at the Australasian Legal Business Awards 2010 with the Equity Capital Markets team named Australian Deal Team of the Year. Allens also won Australian Deal of the Year and Equity Market Deal of the Year for the Rio Tinto capital raising.
