Slaughter and May advised PrimaryBid –on a retail offer in relation to the placing of shares in Compass Group

Slaughter and May advised PrimaryBid, an FCA-regulated platform that connects retail investors with listed companies on equity offerings, on its involvement in the retail offer for shares in Compass Group that ran alongside an accelerated institutional placing by Compass. Compass Group is the first FTSE company to enable retail investors to participate alongside and on equal terms with institutional investors through the PrimaryBid technology platform. Slaughter and May has also been advising PrimaryBid generally in relation to the legal and regulatory framework for its operations.