AIM is the London Stock Exchange's international market for smaller growing companies and, since its launch in 1995, over 3,100 companies from around the world have joined it, raising over #65 billion in total. Whilst mining and oil & gas companies make up the largest sectors by market capitalization, companies from across the spectrum of business activity have made AIM their home.
Over the years, lawyers in Stikeman Elliott's offices have been involved in numerous IPOs, fundraisings and other transactions involving AIM, including 19 AIM/Toronto dual listings to date.
Jeffrey Keey,
Jonathan Deverill and
Derek Linfield of our London office are highly experienced senior lawyers with significant expertise in AIM listings and UK securities issues.
The firm was named in 2007 by
The Lawyer magazine as a Top 20 Advisor to companies listing on AIM. Some examples of our extensive experience in acting both for companies and nomad//brokers on financings and listings and our M&A experience in the AIM market are set out below. Our AIM practice is truly worldwide in scope and we have set out the countries where the AIM companies have assets or operations after each entry below.