2006 Deals

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the Charles Russell team advised.

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Advised Trafalgar Asset Managers and other hedge funds on the $80 million takeover of AIM listed Global Oceanic Carriers Limited and related financial arrangements.

Advised Canaccord Adams Limited on a placing for AIM listed environmental services company TEG Environmental Plc to raise £7.5m before expenses.

Acted for pan-African mining company, Mwana Africa Plc in respect of a £43.5m underwritten placing which was conducted through a bookbuilding process.

Advised Origo Sino-India Plc on its admission to AIM and the placing of shares, raising approximately $25m for the company.

Advised Canaccord Adams Limited by way of an accelerated bookbuild for diamond exploration company, Sierra Leone Diamonds Limited to raise £13.8m.

Acted for Canaccord Adams on the placing for US software company 121 Media Inc which raised £1.5m.

Advised Canaccord Adams on a placing by way of an accelerated Bookbuild for AIM listed Subsea Recources Plc to raise £7.8m before expenses.

Advised Canaccord Adams on a placing for AIM listed Gemfields Recoures Plc to raise £3.2m before expenses.

Acted for Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited on the admission to AIM of this TSX Venture Exchange listed exploration company, which has interests in two exploration projects in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Advised Canaccord Adams and CIBC World Markets Inc in connection with the admission to AIM of Redline Communications Inc. Redline is a leading provider of broadband wireless systems and proprietary wireless infrastructure equipment. Redline has raised £13m through the Placing.

Advised WH Ireland Ltd on a secondary placing on AIM of shares in Xtract Energy plc raising £6m, enabling the company to further develop its existing oil shale technology and for working capital purposes.

Advised WH Ireland Ltd on a further secondary placing on AIM for Cambrian Oil & Gas plc to raise £4.55 m.

Acted for Canaccord Adams on the £125m acquisition by AIM listed Oriel Resources Plc of IPH Polychrom BV which is building a chrome smelter and an investment in Oriel of $100m and which together constituted a reverse take-over. This transaction is subject to shareholder approval.

Advised Jefferies International Limited on the flotation of Gasol Plc and placing to raise £3million.

Advised CDC Group Plc, as a significant shareholder in the flotation of Platmin Limited on AIM and its associated £21.6m fundraising.

Acted for Mwana Africa Plc on a subscription for shares in ASX and AIM listed Australian company, Gravity Diamonds Limited.

Advised WH Ireland Limited on a Fast Track admission of Investika Limited, an Australian listed company in the mining finance industry, to AIM.

Acted for WH Ireland Limited on a secondary placing on AIM for Cambrian Oil & Gas plc to raise £1.5million.

Advised African Consolidated Resources plc which has gold and platinum assets in East Africa in its AIM listing and fundraising to raise £4m. Williams de Broe are the Nomad and broker.
Advised Intermap Technologies Corporation, a Toronto listed company which creates and licences precision digital elevation maps and remote sensing-based map products, on a Fast Track Admission to AIM.

Advised Canaccord Adams Limited on a reverse takeover by Equator Group Plc of Hand Made Holdings Limited (owner of an extensive film library) for a consideration of £14.75million and a placing which raised £10million (gross).

Advised Chaco Resources Plc the oil and gas explorer and developer focused in South America, on its admission to AIM and Placing of 26,666,667 new ordinary shares.

Acted for Cape Lambert Iron Ore Limited on a Fast Track AIM Admission for an Australian company listed on the ASX.

Acted for WH Ireland Ltd on an AIM Placing by Toledo Mining Corporation plc to raise £8.5 million.

Advised AIM listed mining, exploration and development company Mwana Africa Plc on its underwritten placing which raised approximately £43.5m.

Acted for Canaccord Adams on a placing by AIM and TSX listed Southern Era Diamonds to raise £6.6m.

Acted for Arian Silver Corporation Limited on its reverse take over of Hard Assets Inc by way of merger on re-admission Arian Silver Corporation had a market capitalisation of £24m.

Advised Canaccord Adams on a £84m (US $155m) share placing for AIM-listed European Nickel PLC. The funds raised will provide funding for the development of the Company’s Çaldað nickel project in western Turkey (the “Çaldað Project”) and to provide working capital for the European Nickel group.

Advised Canaccord Adams and JPMorgan Cazenove on the conditional placing of 200,000,000 shares in Aricom PLC, raising £90 million before expenses, which was conducted through a bookbuilding process on 21 March 2006.

Advised India Outsourcing Services plc on its £3 million share placing and readmission to AIM. India Outsourcing plc seeks acquisitions and investment opportunities the business process outsourcing industry, primarily in India.

Acted for Zest Group plc on its acquisition of Greensleeves Records Limited, one of the world's largest independent reggae record labels, for a consideration of £3million plus £250,000 of ordinary shares in Zest Group; also advised Zest Group on its related placing of ordinary shares and debt financing.

Advised Charles Stanley Securities in connection with the admission to AIM of Invocas Group plc, a Scottish company that provides debt solutions to consumers, and the placing of 8,566,585 shares at 111 pence per share, raising £9.5 million before expenses.

Acted for Immedia Broadcasting plc on its acquisition of The Cube Group of Companies Limited, a provider of instore audio and audio visual programming for a consideration of approximately £2.43million (subject in part to certain targets being met).

Advised Comino Group plc on Civica plc's recommended cash offer for the company. Comino is a leading software supplier to the local government. Civica's offer values the current share capital of Comino at approximately £49.8 million.

Advised the AIM listed US based software company 121 Media Inc in a placing to raise £2.4m.

Advised WH Ireland on a placing by the AIM listed surf lifestyle brand Hot Tuna to raise £2.5m.

Advised Afriore Limited on its fundraising on AIM and the TSX to raise C$22m.

Advised Canaccord Adams on the £56m flotation of egaming software company, Excapsa. On admission Excapsa had a market capital of £214.2m. Excapsa's poker software is licensed to companies including eWorld Holdings, which operates UltimateBet.com and UltimatePoker.com.

Advised AIM listed Glen Group plc on its acquisition of Eclectic Holdings Limited, a value added reseller of IT services, subject to shareholder approval. The maximum consideration for the acquisition of Eclectic is £3,000,000 in cash and shares which is in part dependent on the results of Eclectic for the year ended 31 July 2006. Glen will also carry out a placing to raise approximately £2,500,000 (before expenses) which Seymour Pierce have conditionally agreed to underwrite.

Advised Lipoxen Technologies Limited on its reverse takeover by Greenchip Investments Plc and subsequent admission to AIM. On admission the company will be known at Lipoxen plc. Lipoxen is engaged in the development of drug delivery systems and proprietary products in the fields of protein drugs, vaccines and oncology. The company has also placed 28,000,000 Ordinary shares to raise gross proceeds of £3.78 million and upon admission it had a market cap of approximately £13 million.

Advised Puma Minerals Corp, a 40% owned subsidiary of Bema Gold Corporation on its non-brokered private placement of approximately 12.3 million shares priced at CDN$1.00 per share for gross proceeds of approximately CDN$12.3 million.