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Company Flotations

Articles, news and expert analysis on company flotations and IPOs in the UK and Europe.

Fair share

Chief executive Gavin Oldham is passionate about universal share ownership – so much so that Share Plc targeted its AIM offer for subscription at its personal investor customers.

Company Flotations

Company Flotations

Making the most of junior markets like AIM

AIM is a well-established source of capital and forum for deals, while the PLUS Quoted market is striving to carve a niche at the junior end of the corporate spectrum. Winners of the Growth Company Awards tell Robert Tyerman how they are seizing the opportunities that these exchanges provide.

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AIM prospects

Daniel O’Connell of Kerman & Co LLP delves into the mining sector and the benefits of raising exploration funds on the small-cap market

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PLUS Markets

Share market operator PLUS Markets Group intends to leave AIM for its own PLUS-Listed platform, writes Leslie Copeland.

Company Flotations

Positive signs for PLUS Markets

PLUS Markets claims it has wholly reinvented itself over the past few years. Leslie Copeland surveys the landscape.

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Tough times on AIM

A difficult new issues climate and challenging market conditions have taken their toll on London's junior market.

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North Sea oil company Valiant Petroleum floats on AIM

Valiant Petroleum, which owns a number of oil fields in the North Sea, has floated on AIM, raising £50 million at £7.50 per share. The initial public offering (IPO) values Valiant at £197 million, making it the second-largest company to float on AIM this year.

Company Flotations

PLUS: an exchange on the rise?

Imagine a public market that allows you to raise finance with a minimum of fuss and outlay on regulatory compliance. This is what PLUS Markets has been trying to create during the past 18 months through its PLUS Quoted and PLUS Listed trading platforms.

Company Flotations

North Sea oil company Valiant Petroleum floats on AIM

Valiant Petroleum, which owns a number of oil fields in the North Sea, has floated on AIM, raising £50 million at £7.50 per share. The initial public offering (IPO) values Valiant at £197 million, making it the second-largest company to float on AIM this year.

Company Flotations

PLUS: an exchange on the rise?

Imagine a public market that allows you to raise finance with a minimum of fuss and outlay on regulatory compliance. This is what PLUS Markets has been trying to create during the past 18 months through its PLUS Quoted and PLUS Listed trading platforms.

Company Flotations

The UK companies powering a renewable energy revolution

'The climate change crisis is like a huge chocolate elephant,’ says Adrian Hutchings, chief executive of alternative energy rising star Energetix.

Company Flotations

Size and the City

Part of the journey for a CEO intent on scaling a company is realising that errors occur along the way. No one, after all, is perfect and everyone is entitled to make mistakes – unless, that is, you’re in charge of a listed entity, when you’re expected to be flawless.

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And they’re back for more AIM IPOs

Patrizia Rossi reviews the year that secondary fundraisings on AIM picked up and IPOs slowed down.

Company Flotations

Newsviews

In this month's Newsviews M&A's Paul Driscoll and Morag Dickson report on current issues inlcluding new regulations affecting AIM nomads and the newly launched PLUS trading platform.