Claire Keast-Butler

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ABOUT CLAIRE KEAST-BUTLER

Claire Keast-Butler’s practice focuses on capital markets transactions. She represents issuers, investmentbanks and investors on initial public offerings and secondary offerings. She also regularly advises listedcompanies on corporate and securities law matters and corporate governance, and has considerableexperience in public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.She represents clients across a wide range of industries, including aviation and transportation, life sciences, manufacturing, technology, entertainment and mining.Claire comes recommended by Legal 500 for her work in capital markets.Representative Transactions- Wizz Air, a leading European airline, on its initial public offering and premium listing with a fully dilutedequity value of £1.45 billion, and subsequent matters (including three class one transactions)*- FFI, a provider of completion contracts to the entertainment industry,on its £235 million initial publicoffering on AIM*- RPC Group, a global plastic packaging design and engineering company, on its £552 million rightsissue, £261 million acquisition of British Polythene Industries PLC and on the associated placing ofnew shares to raise £90 million, and £200 million rights issue and class 1 acquisition of PromensGroup AS*- LivaNova, a global medical technology company, on its $3.4 billion dual listing on the London StockExchange and Nasdaq on closing of the merger of Cyberonics and Sorin*- CVC Capital Partners on the $3.2 billion initial public offering of Avast, the largest ever technologyIPO on the London Stock Exchange*- J.P. Morgan Cazenove, Investec, and RBC Capital Markets on a £53 million placing byEntertainment One*