The Charles Russell AIM Team has followed up its record year of 2005 when it advised on 30 AIM listings, with a further 47 listings in 2006.

One of the highlights of the year was the listing of African Gold plc (Now re-named Mwana African plc) which involved a reverse take-over and placing to raise £4.35 million. On re-admission, Mwana was valued at approximately £75 million and following this raised a further £13.1 million.

The spread of transactions across the various business sectors demonstrates the range of experience covered by Charles Russell, including biotechnology, telecoms/media, resources and renewable energy and the Team has struck a healthy balance of advising both brokers/nominated advisers and companies.

The number of overseas transactions we advised on continues to increase, which is a testament to the strength of the AIM Market worldwide - AIM is now seen as the leading growth market in Europe by investors worldwide (including in North America, Australia and Asia). We advised in relation to the listing of Jarlway Holdings Plc, the UK holding company for a Chinese manufacturer of construction engineering machinery which is one of the first flotations of a company which has its primary business in China and on the listing of Afriore Limited, a Canadian company with a wide portfolio of gold and platinum projects in Africa.

The ever-expanding Team is now eleven members strong, with representatives based in Charles Russell's London, Cheltenham, Oxford and Guildford offices.

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