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Alex Bafi

Alex Bafi

Alex Bafi is a US qualified partner in the corporate division at Herbert Smith. He has extensive experience advising investment banks and corporations on a wide range of UK and international securities offerings, including in particular IPOs, rights offerings and other equity capital market transactions. He also advises clients on M&A transactions. He is fluent in Arabic and French, and conversant in Italian.

He is ranked as a leading Capital Markets lawyer by Legal 500, Chambers Global - The World’s Leading Lawyers and IFLR1000.



Credentials

  • Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley on National Grid's £3.3 billion equity offering
  • Credit Suisse, HSBC and J.P. Morgan Cazenove on Prudential's listing of its shares on the Hong Kong and Singapore Stock Exchanges, and on its proposed US$21 billion rights issue in connection with the US$35.5 billion acquisition of AIG's Asian business
  • Theolia on its €240 million convertible bonds restructuring and €60 million rights issue, with Deutsche Bank and Lazard as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners
  • Merrill Lynch, UBS, HSBC, RBS Hoare Govett, and Barclays Capital on Liberty International's £620 million placing and open offer, Merrill Lynch on Liberty International's £280 million placing and Rothschild as financial adviser and sponsor on Liberty International's  £1 billion demerger of Capital & Counties
  • Yell on its £660 million placing and open offer underwritten by Deutsche Bank, HSBC and J.P. Morgan Securities
  • Credit Suisse and UBS as joint sponsors, joint bookrunners and placing agents on Barratt Developments' £720 million placing and rights issue
  • ABN AMRO, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Jefferies International, as joint bookrunners, in relation to the €450 million rights issue and international offering of shares by Alapis S.A, a Greek company listed on the Athens Stock Exchange
  • Lazard, Citi, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Lloyds TBS Bank and RBS Hoare Govett on Debenhams plc's £323 million firm placing and placing and open offer
  • Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan Cazenove, J.P. Morgan Securties and Lazard on Great Portland Estates' £175 million rights issue
  • JJB Sports on its £100 million placing and open offer
  • Northgate on its £114 million placing and rights issue
  • TomTom on its €359 million rights issue and €71 million private placement restructuring underwritten by ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, ING and Rabo Securities
  • J.P. Morgan Cazenove, J.P. Morgan Securities and Global Investment House on the US$500 million IPO and LSE main market listing of Global MENA Financial Assets
  • Citi, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch as joint bookrunners on the €5.2 billion capital raising by Marfin Investment Group, the largest capital raising in Greece to date
  • Électricité de France S.A. on its £12.5 billion takeover of British Energy Group plc, including the issuance of £385 million of Nuclear Power Notes
  • moneysupermarket.com in connection with its £840 million IPO underwritten by Credit Suisse
  • Merrill Lynch and UBS in connection with the £4.6 billion IPO of Standard Life
  • QinetiQ Group plc on its £1.3 billion IPO on the London Stock Exchange
  • TomTom on its public bid for Tele Atlas, the €455 million equity offering by its founding selling shareholders and COO, and its €540 million IPO and Euronext Amsterdam listing underwritten by Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers
  • Deutsche Bank in connection with the €205 million equity offering of Alapis shares
  • Tele Atlas on its €537 million global offer and Euronext Amsterdam listing underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley
  • Resolution on its £1.55 billion rights issue and £3.6 billion acquisition of Abbey National Life Businesses
  • Boussard Gavaudan Holding Limited on its €450 million IPO and listing on Euronext Amsterdam
  • Hagemeyer on its €610 million securities offering, comprising a €460 million rights offering and a €150 million convertible bond offering; the offerings were part of a transaction which included the restructuring of substantially all of Hagemeyer's €1.3 billion debt
  • Logica on its £400 million rights issue and £630 million takeover of Unilog , a leading French IT services provider
  • Britannic Group on its £1.8 billion merger with Resolution Life Group
  • Lonmin in connection with its US$205 million SEC-registered offering of AngloGold shares
  • Securicor on its £3.8 billion merger with Group 4 Falck to create Group 4 Securicor
  • lastminute.com on its acquisition of Travelselect.com; the issue and listing of up to 34.6 million new shares necessary to complete its acquisition of French company Travelprice.com; and its acquisition of The Destination Group
  • Swiss Life on its SFr1.1 billion equity offering; its issue of SFr250 million 5.25% mandatory convertible securities; and its issue of SFr317 million 0.625% convertible bonds
  • CSFB in relation to a £276 million rights issue for easyJet to fund its £400 million acquisition of the Go Group