A leading and well-established advisor to the 'mid-cap' market, Osborne Clarke's corporate finance and capital markets work regularly covers IPOs (including on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority, AiM and dual listings on international stock markets); secondary issues (including rights issues, open offers, placings and capitalisations); and capital re-organisations.

We act for many investment banks, brokers, underwriters and financial advisers, as well as businesses ranging from the largest public companies and multi-nationals, to family-owned businesses across a broad range of sectors but particularly technology, communications, media, retail, leisure, natural resources and construction.

Our involvement in these industries gives us not only truly specialist knowledge but also in-depth market intelligence. This enables us to enhance significantly the value of advice given to our clients in these areas – whether institutional or corporate.

In the last five years we have acted on over 50 IPOs and we are currently the corporate advisers to 41 listed companies, of which 5 are FTSE 100. As such, according to the Legal 500 2004, we remain in the "premier league, particularly for corporate and banking work… national strength in the hi-tech sector is complemented by work for a wide range of public and private companies in other sectors… a 'very user-friendly' team that excels on buy-outs, company sales and M&A".

• Advising Redknee Solutions on its £17m placing and admission to AIM
• Advising Datamonitor on its £500m recommended takeover by Informa
• Advising Investec Investment Banking on the £70m placing and admission to the Official List of Styles & Wood

Jonathan King
t +44 (0)20 7105 7046
jonathan.king@osborneclarke.com