The firm was recently awarded the Law Society Excellence Award for developing a strong, international presence and encouraging international investment in the UK by way of the AIM market. Cobbetts is internationally recognised for its experience and knowledge in guiding companies thorough the process and achieving a quicker and better result in bringing companies to market. 

Our team is one of the UK’s leading legal advisers to the AIM market and we have developed particular expertise in the international minerals sector.  Our success to us being named as the UK’s fastest growing AIM legal adviser by number of clients. The ranking, by Hemscott, came after we secured six new AIM clients in the first quarter of 2008 – more than any other UK law firm.*

Our work has taken our team to countries as diverse as China, India, Canada, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine and various African countries. We also lecture on the legal aspects of AIM with the London Stock Exchange in Russia (Moscow, Eketerinburg, St Petersburg and Perm), Australia and China.

Companies we have brought to the AIM market include:

• Construction firm, Panceltica, the first Qatar-based company to be admitted to AIM.
• Dairy products company, Ukrproduct, the first Ukrainian trading company from the former eastern block to be admitted to AIM.
• Mining giant, Highland Gold, a Jersey company with Cypriot subsidiaries and assets in Russia and Uzbekistan - at the time the second largest company on AIM with a market cap of £210m.
• The £123 million AIM admission of Timan Oil & Gas, a Russian independent oil and gas exploration and production company.
• Canadian listed Uruguay Mineral Exploration Inc, market cap £100m at the time of its admission.
• The complex three way merger of Greenwich Resources, Buka Minerals and Danar Resources. The combined group, named Scarborough Minerals, being listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, raising £22 million.

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Hemscott have ranked Cobbetts as the leading legal adviser on AIM for basic materials for four quarters.

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