Delphine Currie

Acting for Jefferies International Limited on a number of IPO matters including:

• advising Jefferies on its role as sponsor and book runner on the £180 million IPO of Residential Income Plc
• advised joint bookrunners Jefferies International and Kempen & Co N.V., on Tritax EuroBox’s oversubscribed £300 million IPO
• advised joint bookrunners Jefferies International and Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited on a £67.2 million secondary fundraising for infrastructure investment company BBGI Sicav

Advised AXA REIM on:

• the complex acquisition via a REIT structure of a 50% stake in Cabot Circus Shopping Centre for £267.8 million from Land Securities
• the acquisition of two Club Quarters Hotels at sites in St Pauls and Gracechurch Street, London

Advised Northern VCTs joint public offer by Northern Venture Trust plc, Northern 2 VCT plc and Northern 3 VCT plc to raise £60 million

Advised The British Land Company PLC on the following transactions:

• its joint ventures with Blackstone and GIC in respect of the Broadgate Estate in the City of London and on the establishment of Broadgate REIT Limited, as the new holding company of the joint venture group and its listing on the CISE
• the £210 million acquisition of the entire issued capital of One Sheldon Square Limited, part of the Paddington Central development
• the sale of 334-348 Oxford Street (the Debenhams store) to a private investor for £400 million

Advised Warehouse REIT on its admission to AIM and associated fundraising of £150 million through an institutional placing, public offer and intermediaries offer

Advised CIC on the establishment of a joint venture with Blackstone in relation to the £780 million acquisition of Chiswick Park

Advised China Life Investment Holding Company Limited, China’s largest insurance company and one of China’s largest institutional investors, on the acquisition of a 40% interest in the owning vehicle of 99 Bishopsgate, a landmark multi-let office building totalling 340,000 sq ft over 26 storeys, from Brookfield

Advised Nanoco Group PLC transfer from AIM to the premium segment of the Official List, achieved through a special regime for scientific and research-based companies which do not have a three year revenue earning track record, and associated share placing

Advised on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange demerger of South32 from BHP Billiton and its subsequent listing on the Australian Securities Exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange