Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has advised long-standing client Airtel Africa plc, the majority shareholder of Airtel Mobile Commerce N.V. (known as Airtel Money) the African digital financial services platform, on its initial public offering.
Airtel Money’s shares were admitted to the Equity Shares (Commercial Companies) category of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Official List and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange earlier this month.
The HSF Kramer team was led by partner Gareth Sykes and of counsel Thomas Vaughan with tax advice provided by partner Howard Murray and senior associate Dawn Scott.
The firm previously advised Airtel Africa on minority investments in Airtel Money from TPG, Mastercard, the Qatar Investment Authority and Chimetech Holding for a total consideration of US$550 million which were led by Airtel Africa relationship partner Alan Montgomery and M&A partner Roddy Martin.
Where the legal industry reads first.
Enjoyed this article? Get the biggest legal industry updates, deals, appointments, insights and expert interviews in your inbox, free.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.From Legal Desire
Is your firm the one being cited, or the one being skipped?
We ran the test. On several everyday legal questions, software companies are answering and law firms are not. We help firms fix that, and we build the technology behind the practice.
Lawyers and firms: get featured on Legal Desire
Share your deals, lateral moves, firm news and insights with 1M+ monthly readers: founders, law firm partners, general counsel and practising lawyers across the US, UK, EU and GCC.
Get featuredSubmit a press releaseThe advising firms, the named deal team, the value and the parties, with every other announced deal by the same firms and lawyers. Open the deal record
