Please click the relevant year below to view the AIM transactions
that
the Charles Russell team advised.
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Advised Oakes,
Lyman & Co. SA, as placing agent, on the private
placing of shares in Sphere Medical Holding Limited, a
spin out company based in Cambridge which is developing
medical devices for use in intensive care medicine. |
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Advised Corporate
Synergy Plc on a placing to raise 4.2 million AIM
listing of Elevation Events Group Plc,an event management
and corporate hospitality company. |
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Acted for Medoro
Resources Ltd. on a placing to raise up to £2m
for continuing exploration work |
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Acted for cash
flow solutions business provider, Bibby Financial Services
Limited, in the purchase by its subsidiary Bibby Asset
Finance Limited of the share capital of Leeds Leasing
plc, the wholly owned equipment leasing subsidiary of
Leeds Group PLC. The consideration for the acquisition
was £3.7 million together with the assignment of
an inter-company loan for £1.35 million. |
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Advised BNB Recruitment Solutions Plc, an AIM
listed company specialising in recruitment solutions,
consultancy and HR outsourcing, on a placing to raise
approx. £5.1m.
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Advised Chaco Resources Plc, an oil exploration
company in South America, on it's placing to raise £5
million.
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Advised Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited on
a placing of shares on AIM to raise approx £3.7m
for TEG Environmental Plc, an AIM listed company
specialising in the design and production of specialised
equipment for composting of organic waste.
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Advised Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited on
a placing to raise approx £1m for 121Media,
Inc., an AIM listed US media and telecoms corporation.
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Advised Canaccord
Capital (Europe) Limited on the placing and admission
to AIM of Gemfields Resources Plc, a gemstone mine
operator and gemstone prospecting company focused on Zambia.
The placing raised £12.5 million and Gemfields was
valued at £42.6 million on Admission. |
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Advised AIM listed African Gold Plc (now renamed
Mwana Africa Plc) on its reverse takeover by
pan-African mining exploration, development and production
company Mwana Africa Holdings (Pty) Limited for
a consideration of 110681366 new ordinary shares and
readmission to AIM together, together with a placing
to raise £4.35 million.
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Advised JM Finn & Co on a placing of shares
in AIM listed Business Direct Group plc to provide
working capital of £1.36m. Business Direct is
a developer and operator of an intelligent locker distribution
system.
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Advised WH Ireland Limited on its institutional
placing to raise approximately £1.25m for the
AIM-listed gold and copper exploration company, Metals
Exploration plc.
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Advised Sirius Exploration on its AIM flotation
and placing. Sirius is involved in a joint venture for
copper projects in Macedonia.
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Advised Deloitte Corporate Finance (a division of
Deloitte & Touche LLP) as the nominated adviser
on the AIM flotation of and offer for subscription to
raise approximately £4 million for KP Renewables
Plc, whose business strategy is to establish a leading
position in the UK renewable energy sector by developing,
building or acquiring a portfolio of renewable energy
projects.
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Advised Insinger de Beaufort on the AIM flotation
of and placing to raise £2.4 million for Sanatana
Diamonds Inc., a Canadian diamond exploration and
development company with an exploration portfolio covering
approximately 20 million acres in the Northwest Territories
and Nunavut, Canada.
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Advised Nabarro Wells & Co. Limited, Zimmerman
Adams International Limited and Hitchens Harrison &
Co. plc on the flotation on AIM of Jarlway Holdings
Plc, the UK holding company for a Chinese manufacturer
of construction engineering machinery. The flotation
raised £1.25 million and is one of the first flotations
of a company which has its primary business in the PRC.
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Advised Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited on
the admission to AIM of Bankers Petroleum Limited,
a Canadian oil and gas producer and explorer.
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Advising Latitude Resources Plc on its AIM flotation
and placing to raise £5 million. Latitude has
five copper-gold projects and one copper-molybdenum
project at the exploration stage in Chile, as well as
a shareholding in North American gold development company,
Western Goldfields and a mining finance business
with a strategic alliance with Investec Bank (UK) Limited.
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Advising Afriore Limited on its AIM flotation.
Afriore focuses on precious metals and has acquired
rights to an area of highly prospective platinum ground
in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. It also has rights
to a portfolio of gold projects in across Africa.
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Acted for WH Ireland Limited on a placing to
raise £2.7 million for the AIM listed oil and
gas investment company Ascent Resources Plc.
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Acted for Charles Stanley & Co Limited on
the admission to AIM and a placing to raise £3
million for Debtmatters Group plc, a debt solutions
company.
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Acted for BX and AIM Listed European Minerals Corporation,
a mining and minerals company, on the UK aspects of
its offer of units to raise C$ 97.5 million.
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Acted for JM Finn & Co on the cancellation
of Kiotech International Plc's Ofex listing and
its admission to AIM, with a related placing to raise
£2.2 million. Market capitalisation of Kiotech
(a biotechnology company) was £4.6 million.
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Acted for Corporate Synergy Plc on the admission
of Media Group Plc to AIM and a placing to raise
£1.5 million. Media Steps Group is an advertising
agency.
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Advising Nutrinnovator Holdings Plc, a nutraceutical
company on its reverse takeover of Provexis Limited
and readmission to AIM together with a placing to raise
£3.8 million.
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Acted for Canaccord Capital
(Europe) Limited on a placing to raise approximately
£10.7 million for Aricom Plc, which has titanium
interests in Russia. |
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Acted for Canaccord Capital
(Europe ) Limited in March 2005 in relation to a private
placing to raise £2.5 million for the AIM and TSX
listed company, SouthernEra Diamonds, one of Canada's
largest fully integrated diamond companies. |
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Acted for Zest Group plc
(the music publishing and recording company) in March
2005 on its AIM admission and a related placing to raise
£580,000, with placees obliged to subscribe for
a further £580,000 by February 2006 at Zest's request. |
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Acted for Canaccord Capital
(Europe) Limited on a placing to raise £8 million
and the AIM listing of Afren Plc ("Afren").
Afren has been created to build, initially through acquisition,
a leading exploration and production company within the
African oil and gas sector. Market capitalisation of Afren
on admission was approximately £26 million. |
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Acted for Canaccord Capital
(Europe) Limited on the acquisition by Oriel Resources
plc of the Voskhod chrome deposit in the Kazakhstan
and an associated £13.5 million placing of shares
and warrants. |
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Acted for Black Raven Properties
plc (which purchases and develops commercial, residential
and leisure sites) on a placing to raise £1million
and the company's AIM admission. |
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Acted for AIM listed Conival
plc on its £11.1million reverse takeover by
Portfolio Products Limited. PPL has assembled a
portfolio of rights to celebrity brands in relation to
food, beverages and nutritional products. |
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Acted for Canaccord Capital
(Europe) Limited in relation to the AIM listing of
Taghmen Energy plc, a company involved in oil and
gas exploration. Market capitalisation at the time of
admission was £35million. |
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Acted for Canaccord
Capital (Europe) Limited in relation to a £20million
placing and the AIM listing of Sierra Leone Diamond
Company Limited |
