WFW is delighted to announce that the Sun Express Exim-French Lease Deal that the firm advised on has won Export Credit Deal of the Year at Airfinance Journal’s 2016 Deals of the Year Awards.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Peel Hunt in their capacity as joint bookrunners on an equity placing by LondonMetric Property PLC to raise gross proceeds of approximately £96 million. The proceeds of the fundraising will be used to fund acquisitions of new portfolio assets and development of existing portfolio properties.
Slaughter and May advised Santander UK Group Holdings plc on its issue of £500 million Fixed Rate Reset Perpetual Additional Tier 1 Capital Securities.
The principal amount of the Securities will automatically be written down to zero if at any time Santander UK Group Holdings plc’s Common Equity Tier 1 ratio, calculated on a consolidated basis, is less than 7%. The Securities are admitted to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Slaughter and May advised VocaLink Limited (VocaLink) on the UK and European competition aspects of its proposed acquisition by Mastercard for £700 million plus potential future earn-out provisions. Following a referral from the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) conditionally cleared the transaction on 11 April 2017.
Hogan Lovells advised Proparco, a subsidiary of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) devoted to private sector funding, and the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) in relation to the financing of the Ten Marina solar power plant in Senegal, West Africa.
This is the second solar power plant project in Senegal which Hogan Lovells has advised on since the creation of the Senergy power plant, West Africa's largest solar power plant, in May 2016.
Allen & Overy LLP has advised a banking syndicate with Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, SEB AG and UniCredit Bank AG as coordinating banks, mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners and UniCredit Luxembourg S.A. as agent in connection with a syndicated facility agreement with a total amount of EUR 240 million for ALBA Group plc & Co. KG.
Allen & Overy LLP advised THE NAGA GROUP AG ("NAGA") on one of Europe's largest FinTech Series A investments in 2017 by FOSUN International ("FOSUN"), a leading Chinese investment group. FOSUN invests a total of EUR 12.5 million in the Hamburg-based FinTech firm.
Simmons & Simmons has advised BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS as joint lead managers and Raiffeisen Switzerland as co-lead manager on an issuance of €500m Notes due 2047 by ELM B.V. which are secured over €500m Dated Subordinated Notes due 2047 of Helvetia Schweizerische Versicherungsgesellschaft AG, which are guaranteed on a subordinated basis by Helvetia Holding AG.
Clifford Chance advised the underwriters, Guotai Junan International, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank International, and a group of 20 syndicate members, on Guotai Junan Securities' US$2.1 billion initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Guotai Junan Securities is one of the leading Chinese securities houses.
CMS has advised ING Bank N.V., London Branch and other leading international banks as mandated lead arrangers of a new $420mln five year unsecured syndicated finance facility to Russian Railways.
Russian Railways is one of the largest transportation companies in the world and is one of the largest corporates in Russia which provides a full range of services from infrastructure maintenance, engineering and logistics to freight and passenger transportation.