This is an exciting partnership which will leverage the power of big data and artificial intelligence – a huge area in technology and the fintech arena.
“Charles Russell Speechlys LLP advised Kreos Capital V (UK) Limited and Silicon Valley Bank on their £20 million growth capital investment to Mereo BioPharma Group Plc (“Mereo BioPharma”), a UK-based specialty bio-pharmaceutical company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
Mereo BioPharma was established to address the R&D and financial challenges faced by an increasing number of large pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and to optimise drug development and ensure that promising drug candidates fulfil their potential.
Shearman & Sterling represented Credit Suisse, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, ING, UniCredit and CaixaBank as initial purchasers on Masaria Investments’ €600 million high yield bond offering. The bond consisted of €275 million 5% senior secured fixed rate notes due 2024 and €325 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2024.
Shearman & Sterling represented Credit Suisse, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, ING, UniCredit and CaixaBank as initial purchasers on Masaria Investments’ €600 million high yield bond offering. The bond consisted of €275 million 5% senior secured fixed rate notes due 2024 and €325 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2024.
Shearman & Sterling advised the joint bookrunners, led by Morgan Stanley, in connection with Intralot’s €500 million senior notes offering. The notes pay interest at a rate of 5.25% per annum due 2024. The proceeds from the offering were used to fully redeem Intralot’s senior notes maturing in May 2021 and to repay Intralot’s syndicated facilities, and will also be used for general corporate purposes.
Jeantet advised M2i, key player of e-Learning, blended-Learning, virtual and conventional classroom trainings for lT, Digital and Management, on its listing transfer from Euronext Access Paris (formerly known as Free Market) to Euronext Growth Paris (formerly known as Alternext), completed after a successful private placement for a total amount of € 6.8 M.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised a syndicate of banks and other European institutional funders on the procurement of senior debt facilities worth €182m granted to Autovía del Pirineo, S.A, a subsidiary of Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras (“Iridium”) and a member of the ACS Group, for the construction and operation of several sections of the A21 motorway in the Navarre region of northern Spain. The tenor of the financing is 20 years.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised OJSC International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), the largest bank in Azerbaijan, on the restructuring of approximately US$3.4 billion of its financial indebtedness.
Norton Rose Fulbright has advised major financial institution Macquarie Bank Limited on a project financing to Perseus Mining Côte d'Ivoire, a subsidiary of Perseus Mining Limited, an ASX-listed, WA-based mining company.
The project loan facility will be used for the development and operating costs of the Sissingué gold project, which is understood to be the first ever project financing of a mining project in Côte d'Ivoire, and the first ever under the current Ivorian mining laws.
Macfarlanes has advised 10x Future Technologies, the financial transformation business founded by former Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins on one of the largest ever Series A funding rounds for a European FinTech firm.
This fundraising will allow 10x Future Technologies, which was launched in October 2016, to further build out its customer-focused digital platform offering and expand into some of the world’s fastest growing markets.