Practice Areas
Corporate Finance

We work closely with clients to understand their businesses, objectives and opportunities. The latest Legal 500 comments: "… a series of significant instructions last year powered Shepherd and Wedderburn's corporate department to its best-ever year. Three high-profile deals stand out: the firm acted for ScottishPower in its £11.6bn takeover by Iberdrola, while its 'formidable' capital markets expertise was deployed to advise Cairn India on its US$6.3bn IPO and Leaf Clean Energy on its £200m AIM IPO."

We provide advice on an ongoing and project basis to public companies, financial institutions, investment banks, private equity houses, SMEs, public bodies and start-ups throughout the UK.

The firm has been regularly ranked first in Scotland over the last decade for IPOs and fundraisings for public companies. The firm's London office is in its own right recommended in the London market for advising on UK domestic IPOs by the Legal 500, the only Scottish-headquartered UK firm to be so recommended. We have acted in over 80 IPOs and secondary issues of listed securities in the last 5 years.

Our M+A practice is also highly regarded. In the last year we acted for Nuclear Liabilities Fund in the £12.5 billion take-over of British Energy by EDF and as Court Reporter in the £14.2 billion acquisition of HBOS plc by Lloyds TSB Group plc.

Our market-leading individuals operate throughout the UK across all sectors. Particular strengths include financial services; energy and renewables; oil and gas; pharma and life sciences; real estate companies; telecoms; technology, food drink and leisure; and transport.

The expertise to deliver results

Our key specialisms include:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • IPOs
  • Secondary issues of listed securities
  • Bond issues
  • Private equity
  • Fundraisings
  • Capital markets
  • MBOs/MBIs
  • Joint ventures
  • Employee share schemes and incentives
  • Investment trusts

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