Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Berenberg on the successful capital increase of RIB Software SE by way of issuance of about 4.7 million new shares from authorised capital. The New Shares were placed with domestic and foreign institutional investors by means of accelerated bookbuilding, hereby excluding subscription rights. The total placement volume amounts to €131 million.
Today, on 23 March 2018, Green Landscaping was listed on Nasdaq First North. The price per share in the IPO was SEK 21, corresponding to a total market value of approximately SEK 745 million.
FSN Capital III is the largest shareholder and will hold approximately 18.6 percent of the shares in Green Landscaping immediately after the IPO. Other shareholders include both Swedish and international institutional investors, there among the Salén family, as well as investors among the general public in Sweden.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, HSBC Bank plc, DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main, Lloyds Bank plc and UniCredit Bank AG, as joint lead managers, on a €600 million bond issue by Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft.
The notes have a term of ten years, a fixed coupon of 1.125% and will be admitted to trading on the regulated markets of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Luxembourg Exchange.
RTPR Allen & Overy has advised European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and ING Bank N.V. Amsterdam - Bucharest Branch (ING Bank Romania) on a 96 million Euro financing for CTPark Bucharest logistics park located on the A1 Bucharest-Pitesti motorway and owned by CTP Group, one of the most active investors in industrial and logistics spaces in Romania.
A cross-jurisdictional DLA Piper team from London and Toronto has assisted FMO (the Dutch development bank investing in growth and frontier markets) on its cornerstone investment into JCM Power.
JCM Power is an independent power producer dedicated to accelerating social, economic and environment sustainability in growth markets (including Africa, Asia and Latin America) through the development, construction and operation of renewable energy facilities and HVDC transmission lines.
Slaughter and May advised Legal & General on the annual update and amendment of its £5 billion Euro Note Programme. Under the Programme, Legal & General Group Plc have the ability to issue senior, tier 3 and tier 2 Notes and Legal & General Finance PLC may issue senior Notes guaranteed by Legal & General Group Plc, in each case to be listed and traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
The Firm recently represented the international joint lead managers in connection with a follow-on offering of Daiwa House REIT Investment Corporation, which included an international offering to institutional investors pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. The offering raised approximately ¥52.7 billion (approximately US$502 million) for the issuer, which will be used with bank financing to fund the acquisition of additional logistics, retail and hotel properties. Morgan Stanley, Daiwa Capital Markets Europe and Nomura acted as international joint lead managers for the offering.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised J.P. Morgan, acting as Sole Global Coordinator, on the €2 billion sale by Vivendi of its entire stake in Ubisoft, representing approximately 30.5 million shares and 27.3 percent of Ubisoft's share capital.
The overall transaction, carried out at a single price of €66 per share, includes the following:
The CMS office in Tirana collaborated with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Albania in the financing transaction of Ujësjellës Kanalizime Tiranë Sh.a (UKT), the Albanian state water company, for a total value of 30 million Euro. This transaction, one of the most important since the beginning of the year in Albania, will finance expansion works in the Bovilla reservoir.
International Law firm Hogan Lovells recently represented ING Bank N.V., a global financial institution, in connection with a US$100 million loan to Argos USA LLC, a subsidiary of Cementos Argos S.A.
Cementos Argos, a multinational cement and concrete producer in Colombia, the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, will use the loan for corporate purposes.
Hogan Lovells partners Rick Martinez and Andrew Lee led the team representing ING Bank. Partner Jeff Tolin and associate Catherine Chen provided tax advice.