Corporate & Banking highlight deals

• Sale of Pret a Manger
  

• Cookson Group plc - offering of ordinary shares
  

• Sandpiper’s acquisition of CI Traders
  

• Peninsular Gold Limited - issuance of convertible notes
  

• Mercapital funds group
  

• The Royal Bank of Scotland plc £907 million facility to the Propinvest Group
  

• Citigroup credit facilities
  

• Shire plc - offering of convertible bonds
  

• Project Crown
  

• The Royal Bank of Scotland plc - Barchester refinancing
  

• Project Protractor
  

• NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd: Marketgate
  

• Complex, cross-border deal
  

• Drax
  

• British Land