Expertise
Capital markets and fundraising operations
Brandford Griffith & Associés has a widely-recognised experience and acts on a regular basis in initial public offerings and listings on the French regulated exchanges or in privatisations, on occasion with other first rate law firms (notably US firms).
The Firm regularly assists and advises the different players – issuers and investment banks, whether French or foreign – in the issuance of financial instruments, through public or private offerings, the structuring of operations and the drafting of the relevant documentation.
Brandford Griffith & Associés has acted as:
- Adviser to Argan in relation to its €25 million Euro PP debt issuance
- Adviser to Société Générale and KBC Securities NV as underwriters for the IPO of Inventiva on Euronext Paris
- Adviser to SEB for the issuance of net share settled convertible bonds into existing shares (ORNAE)
- Adviser to Wendel relating to the issuance of bonds exchangeable for Saint Gobain shares
- Adviser to Sequana in relation to its capital increase and to the investment of the Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (FSI)
- Adviser to Rothschild and Dexia for the issuance of bonds by Foncière Iéna
- Adviser to NextRadio TV, Natixis, BNP Paribas, CM-CIC Securities for the issuance of bonds by NextRadioTV
- Adviser to Société Générale, Banque Palatine and GiFi with respect to the issuance of bonds by GiFi
- Adviser to ABN Amro Rothschild in the context of the merger of Amboise Investissement and Altamir & Cie. followed by the capital increase of the merged entity (Altamir Amboise)
- Adviser to Archos in the context of a bond issuance reserved to its shareholder Echostar
- Adviser to First Dutch Capital and AEK for the double floatation of Sinclair Pharma Plc on the Official List of the London Stock Exchange and the Eurolist of Euronext Paris
- Adviser to JPMorgan Cazenove and Société Générale relating to the capital increase of OFI Private Equity through the free allocation of share warrants
- Adviser to Argan, Invest Securities and Banque Palatine in relation to the floatation of Argan on Euronext Paris
- Adviser to Société Générale for the capital increase of Delachaux through the free allocation of share warrants
- Adviser to Theolia in connection with a capital increase reserved to General Electric
- Adviser to BN AMRO Rothschild and HSBC France for the floatation of Les Nouveaux Constructeurs
- Adviser to Natixis Bleichroeder for the floatation of Heurtey Petrochem
- Adviser to the institutional shareholders selling their shares in the floatation of Neuf Cegetel on Euronext Paris
- Adviser to Société Générale, HSBC, CM-CIC and Fortis for the sale of existing shares of International Metal Services (IMS)
- Adviser to Theolia in relation to the issuance of bonds (OCEANE)
- Adviser to Enel for an international bond issuance
- Adviser to San Paolo relating to an OBSAAR bond issue for Groupe Open
- Adviser to APRR in the context of its privatisation
- Adviser to Deutsche Bank for the capital increase of France Télécom through free allocation of share warrants
- Adviser to Geodis in connection with its capital increase
- Adviser to the French State for the floatation of Snecma
- Adviser to the French State for the privatisation of ASF
- Adviser to Rallye relating to the issue of exchangeable bonds of Casino
- Adviser to the sponsoring banks in relation to the privatisation of Thomson Multimédia
- Adviser to Total for a block trade on Sanofi Synthelabo shares
- Adviser to the sponsoring banks with respect to the capital increase and floatation of the following companies:
- Archos
- Astellia
- Eurodisney
- Fi System
- Générale de Santé
- Groupe Ares
- Hi Média
- Infogrames
- Medidep
- Memcaps
- Modelabs
- Multimania
- NextRadioTV (BFM-RMC)
- Oxbow S.A.
- Pinguely-Haulotte
- Rue du Commerce
- SFPI
- StudioCanal
- Théolia
- Touax SCA