Thomas is Of Counsel in the firm’s Corporate division specialising in equity capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience of advising companies and investment banks on a range of equity capital markets transactions, including IPOs and secondary offerings, and has advised clients across a range of sectors.
Thomas spent 9 months on secondment in 2017 at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, in the ECM legal team, and previously spent 6 months on secondment in 2013 at Credit Suisse in London, in the Investment Banking Division legal team. Thomas has been listed as a key lawyer in Legal 500.
Thomas has been listed as a key lawyer in Legal 500 (Equity Capital Markets – Mid-Large Cap) and noted for his capabilities across the energy, oil & gas, real estate, and financial services sectors. – Legal 500 UK 2024
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- New Energy One Acquisition Corporation on its £175 million SPAC IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange (for the issuer)
- Neometals on its introduction to the London Stock Exchange's AIM market
- Petershill Partners on its IPO and $5.0 billion premium listing as a fund on the London Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- PensionBee on its IPO and £365 million listing on the High Growth Segment of the London Stock Exchange (for the bank)
- Marex on its proposed IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange (for the issuer)
- Energean on its IPO and £695 million listing on the London Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- Hostelworld on its IPO and £176.8 million (€245.0 million) listing on the London Stock Exchange and the Irish Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- permanent tsb on its €400 million primary placing, open offer, €98 million secondary placing and €2.044 billion listing on the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange (for the banks)
- Just Eat on its IPO and £1.47 billion listing on the High Growth Segment of the London Stock Exchange (for the issuer)
- AO World on its IPO and £1.2 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange (for the issuer)
- The UNITE Group on its:
- £300 million capital raise to commit to two new PBSA developments and accelerate asset management initiatives (for the issuer)
- £300 million placing to fund its development pipeline (for the issuer)
- £259.6 million placing to fund part of the cash consideration for its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Liberty Living Group Plc (priced on a NAV-for-NAV basis for total consideration of £1.4 billion) (for the issuer)
- £170 million placing to fund existing development pipeline with two new University partnership transactions (for the issuer)
- Severn Trent on its £1 billion equity issue, including a placing and a £500 million subscription by QIA (for the issuer)
- GIC on its on its participation as a cornerstone investor in €1 billion capital raises by Energias de Portugal (EDP) and EDP Renováveis (EDPR), committing over €1 billion in aggregate (for the investor)
- Saga on its £150 million firm placing and placing and open offer and investment by Sir Roger de Haan (for the issuer)
- Fuller, Smith & Turner on its £54 million placing (for the bank)
- Hiscox on its £375 million placing (for the banks)
- Phoenix Group on its £950 million rights issue to finance (in part) its acquisition of Standard Life Aberdeen's UK and European life insurance business for a total consideration of £2.9 billion (for the banks)
- Phoenix Group on its £735 million rights issue to fund the class 1 acquisition of Abbey Life (for the banks)
- Energean on its $265 million (£211 million) placing to part fund the $750 million initial consideration for its acquisition of Edison Exploration & Production S.p.A. (for the banks)
- Elementis on its $230 million rights issue (£176.4 million) to finance its $500 million acquisition of Mondo Minerals (up to $553 million) (for the issuer)
- Total Produce on its €145 million ($180 million) placing to part-fund its $300 million acquisition of a 45% equity stake in Dole Food Company (for the banks)
- Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate on its £351 million firm placing and placing and open offer (for the banks)
- Sky on its £1.36 billion placing in connection with its acquisitions of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia (for the issuer)
- a major global professional services firm on the design and implementation of a global vehicle, owned by its member firms, to acquire, develop and roll out a new global IT platform, and to provide services to member firms around the world
- Old Mutual plc on the demerger of Quilter and on the listing of Old Mutual Limited on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange in connection with the managed separation of the Old Mutual Group (for the sponsor)
- Citigroup, Barclays and HSBC on the Brookfield Property Partners and Qatar Investment Authority hostile £2.6 billion takeover offer for Songbird Estates and Canary Wharf Group
- Tullow on its proposed all-share merger with Capricorn Energy
- Barclays and Deutsche Bank in connection with the proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group and Deutsche Börse
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