Led by their Frankfurt based Partner Michael Schlitt Hogan Lovells advised Deutsche Bank AG as Joint Bookrunner on the placement of 2,345,874 shares of Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.

Bankhaus Lampe acted as Joint Bookrunner. The shares have been placed by way of an accelerated bookbuilding to institutional investors.

Hogan Lovells for Deutsche Bank AG

Prof. Dr. Michael Schlitt (Partner), Dr. Susanne Lenz LL.M. (Counsel, both Capital Markets, Frankfurt)

DWF has advised leading securities firm Cenkos Securities plc (Cenkos) in their capacity as a broker to UK Oil & Gas Investments plc (UKOG), a dynamic and innovative British oil and gas company listed on AIM on a secondary fundraise of £6.5million effected via placing of new shares.

On May 18, 2017, UBS Group Funding (Switzerland) AG (the"Issuer") completed its issuance of CHF 400 m bail-inable (TLAC) notes under its Senior Debt Programme. The CHF 400 m 0.625% Senior Notes due May 18, 2024, will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange Ltd. (the "Notes").

Credit Suisse AG acted as joint-lead manager together with UBS AG. The bonds will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Homburger acted as counsel to Credit Suisse AG. The Homburger team consisted of partners René Bösch (Financial Services), Stefan Oesterhelt (Tax) and counsel Eduard De Zordi (Financial Services).

Linde AG and Praxair, Inc. have announced that the two companies have reached an agreement on the Business Combination Agreement and intend to combine in a merger of equals under a new holding company through an all-share transaction. The transaction is valued at a total of approximately 60 billion Euros. Also after possible signing of a Business Combination Agreement there is no assurance that a transaction will be consummated. The execution of the transaction will be in particular subject to its approval by the shareholders meeting of Praxair, Inc.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Barclays, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Mediobanca, Natixis, NatWest Markets, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking and UniCredit Bank, as dealers, on the Italian and English law aspects of the update of Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A.’s €1.5 billion Medium Term Note Programme.

The Base Prospectus has been approved by the Central Bank of Ireland.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised a group of 27 international and local banks, acting as financiers under a variety of bilateral and syndicated, secured and unsecured, debt financing, Islamic financing and leasing facilities, in relation to the consents necessary in connection with their successful financing of the US$14bn merger between Hapag-Lloyd and United Arab Shipping Company (“UASC”).

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Crédit Agricole CIB (“CA-CIB”) as mandated lead arranger, facility agent and security trustee and the Korea Development Bank as arranger, on the commercial financing for Minsheng Financial Leasing of four Airbus A320-200s (MSNs 5744, 5807, 5893 and 5898) currently on lease to India carrier IndiGo.

The Firm represented Ant Financial Services Group in connection with its recent investment in ofo, a leading bike sharing company in China. Upon its investment, Ant Financial will become a strategic partner for ofo and work together with ofo on Internet and credit card payments as well as on ofo’s international expansion plan.

The Simpson Thacher team includes Shaolin Luo, Yang Wang, Amy Liu and Jun Feng (Beijing – M&A).

Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance has advised Duff & Phelps, a global valuation and corporate finance adviser, on its acquisition of Quantera Global Asia Holding, an Asia-Pacific transfer pricing advisory firm affiliated with Quantera Global.

The transaction involved the acquisition of the Quantera business in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam, a restructuring of the Quantera business in the Philippines, Japan and the People's Republic of China and involved a team of lawyers from across Stephenson Harwood's network of Asian offices.