Frederick Arthur Langdon Gardner

Mr. Gardner’s representative experience includes advising:

• WE Soda on its proposed IPO on the London Stock Exchange
• The underwriters on Deliveroo’s IPO on the London Stock Exchange 
• Abcam on its IPO of American Depositary Shares and dual listing on Nasdaq 
• Abcam on its delisting from AIM
• EPIC Acquisition Corp on its IPO on Euronext Amsterdam
• The sponsors and underwriters on TUI’s €1.1 billion rights issue and €425 million cash placing
• The sponsor and underwriters on AVEVA Group’s £2.835 billion rights issue to fund the acquisition of OSIsoft, LLC
• The sponsor and underwriters on Kier Group’s £241 million placing and open offer
• The sponsors and underwriters on SIG’s £160 million firm placing and placing and open offer 
• Rothschild as sponsor on Capital & Counties Properties and Shaftesbury’s all-share merger
• Rothschild as sponsor to OneSavings Bank in connection with the introduction of OSB GROUP PLC as a new holding company by means of a Scheme of Arrangement, and the ListCo’s admission to the premium listing segment of the LSE
• JP Morgan as sponsor on Ascential’s concurrent class 1 disposals of Digital Commerce and WGSN
• The sponsor on Capita’s class 1 disposals of its Education Software Solutions and Pay360 
• JP Morgan as bookrunner on the reverse accelerated bookbuild by NEOM Investment Fund Company in Technogym
• JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs as global coordinators on the sale of shares in HELLENiQ Energy by existing shareholders
• JP Morgan on Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure’s at-the-market offering and program
• Bank of America as sole lead book-running manager on the £350 million US public offer and private placement by Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure, effected through a jersey cashbox
• The underwriters on ITM Power’s £250m placing
• The sponsor and underwriters on Greencore Group’s £90 million Irish cashbox placing
• The underwriters on Aston Martin Lagonda’s £152 million cash box placing in 2020 and £216 million placing in 2023
• The underwriters on S4 Capital’s £116 million placing
• The underwriters on The Unite Group’s £300 million placings in 2020 and 2023
• The underwriter on Dechra Pharmaceuticals’ £184 and £133.4 million placings 
• The underwriters IWG’s £320 million cashbox placing 
• The underwriters on Polypipe Group’s £120 million and £96.3 million placings 
• The underwriter on Wetherspoons’ £141 million placing 
• The underwriters on Hays’ £200 million cashbox placing 
• Investec and Numis on the £300 million acquisition of the Ascential events business and related rights issue by ITE Group plc*
• Future plc on their class 1 acquisitions of Purch B2C and TI Media, and connected equity raises* 
• Bank of America as sponsor to Takeaway.com on their merger with Just Eat, and the listing of the combined group on the LSE* 
• The underwriters on S4 Capital’s firm placing, placing and open offer, and related acquisition of Firewood Marketing, Inc.* 
• The underwriters on 3i Infrastructure’s 2019 undocumented placing* 
• Bank of America as sponsor to WPP on the disposal of their Kantar business to Bain Capital* 
• The sponsors on class 1 acquisitions or disposals by Wizz Air, Unite Group, and Xaar * 
• The underwriter on the IPO of Sensyne Health (AIM)* 
• The underwriters on the offerings for Mothercare, ITE Group, EnQuest, Provident Financial, Vannin Capital, and ECI Telecom*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham