Brent Sanders

Partner

Brent is a partner in our Corporate M&A and ECM Department specialising in US securities law and equity capital markets.

Corporate and capital markets experience

Brent specialises in cross-border capital markets and corporate finance transactions, providing U.S. federal securities law advice in connection with such transactions to a broad range of corporate issuers, investment funds and underwriters. He has broad international capital markets experience advising on a range of transactions internationally, including in the United Kingdom, Europe, MENA and CIS countries.

US securities expertise

Brent regularly advises on issues relating to the US Securities Act, US Securities Exchange Act and US Investment Company Act, as well as US tender-offer rules, US broker dealer rules and the US Investment Advisers Act.

Selected Deals

Zegona Communications plc on its €5 billion acquisition of Vodafone Spain and €300 million placing.

Foresight Group on its £455 million Main Market IPO

Bytes Technology Group plc on its £646 million IPO on the Main Market.

Conduit Holdings Limited on its $1.1 billion IPO on the Main Market.

Smithson Investment Trust plc on its £822 million IPO on the Official List, the UKs largest ever investment trust launch.

Auction Technology Group plc on its £244 million cash box placing to partially fund its £525 million acquisition of LiveAuctioneers

S4 Capital plc on its £100 million firm placing, placing and open offer in connection with its acquisition of Firewood Marketing Inc.

Numis, Barclays and HSBC on the £126 million rights issue by Hyve Group plc.

Assura plc on its oversubscribed £300 million firm placing, conditional placing and open offer and £10.7 million offer for subscription.

Zegona Communications on its £100.5 million placing in connection with its acquisition of additional shares in Euskaltel, a Spanish-listed telecommunications business.

Carpetright plc on its company voluntary arrangement, debt refinancing, and £65 million placing and open offer.

Hostelworld Group plc on its €245 million IPO on the Main Market.

RBC and Jefferies on the £450 million fundraising by Greencoat UK Wind PLC.

Peel Hunt and WG Partners on the £80 million placing by Oxford Biomedica.

The team is excellent. They are always high-quality and good to deal with.

Dedication to the project, attention to detail and hard work.

They are real advocates for their client and they are proper problem-solvers. They work to get the transaction done and they think laterally.

Brent Sanders is smart, pragmatic and very user friendly.