Cole Smith

Cole is a US-qualified Counsel based in London with experience representing multi-jurisdictional issuers and investment banks in a variety of equity and debt capital market transactions in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has also advised clients in connection with a number of US SEC reporting matters.

Cole completed secondments to Credit Suisse, supporting the investment banking legal team, and Vodafone, supporting the corporate legal team on capital markets, M&A and corporate secretariat matters.

Work highlights

Cole’s experience includes advising:

• Alphawave IP advising on its IPO and London Stock Exchange listing
• Petrofac advising on its capital raise and debt issue
• Kier on its capital raise and rights issue
• Mitie on its rights issue and acquisition of Interserve Facilities Management
• ams AG on its rights issue to fund the acquisition of OSRAM
• Investec on the demerger and dual London Stock Exchange / Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing of Ninety One asset management
• the underwriters in relation to the rights issue of SSP Group
• the underwriters in relation to the IPO and London Stock Exchange listing of Trainline
• the underwriters in relation to the IPO and London Stock Exchange listing of Funding Circle
• Shurgard on its IPO and Euronext Brussels listing

Cole serves as a trustee on the board of St. Paul’s Arts Trust, which manages The Space Theatre.

Cole holds a JD from Harvard Law School and LLM from the University of Cambridge. Cole received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration (Accountancy) from the University of Notre Dame.