Fenwick & West represented the underwriters in the initial public offering for Farfetch Limited (NYSE: FTCH), a leading technology platform for the global luxury fashion industry. Farfetch offered 44,243,749 Class A ordinary shares at a price to the public of $20.00 per share. As part of the offering, Farfetch granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 6,636,562 Class A ordinary shares from Farfetch at the initial public offering price.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Allen & Company LLC and UBS Securities LLC acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC acted as joint bookrunners for the offering. Cowen and Company, LLC and BNP Paribas Securities Corp. acted as co-managers for the offering.
The Fenwick transaction team included corporate lawyers Jamie Evans, Mark Stevens, Kat Duncan, Shiva Hippely and Annie Omata; technology transactions lawyers Stephen Gillespie, Arjun Ravi, Ed Heffernan and Lindsay Tang; tax attorneys Idan Netser and Marianne Tassone; and securities litigators Catherine Kevane.