Shearman & Sterling represented Ardagh Packaging Finance plc and Ardagh Holdings USA Inc., as co-issuers, both subsidiaries of Ardagh Packaging Holdings Limited (Ardagh), in connection with the offering of their $1 billion 6.000% senior notes.
HONG KONG, February 7, 2017 – The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised the joint bookrunners on a US$1.2 billion stock rights offering by BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO).
Italian team advises on high profile deal in luxury lifestyle fashion sector.
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and a pool of investors led by Ergon Capital Partners have executed the agreement for the acquisition by Carlyle Europe Partners IV (CEP IV) of the entire shareholding in Golden Goose Deluxe Brand, an Italian luxury fashion company.
Gide advised the Joint Lead Managers Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V. Belgian Branch, Natixis and Société Générale on the issuance by Bolloré of its € 500 million 2.00 per cent. notes due 2022, and admitted to trading on the regulated market of NYSE Euronext in Paris.
Gide's team was led by partner Hubert du Vignaux assisted by Bastien Raisse and Mariléna Gryparis.
Bolloré was assisted by Shearman & Sterling LLP.
NEW YORK, 27 January 2017 – Hogan Lovells has advised BNP Paribas Securities Corp. as the placement agent and a group of accredited investors based in the United States in establishing a new diversified payment rights securitization program (DPR) originated by Banco Davivienda (Costa Rica), S.A. DPR-CR Limited, a special purpose vehicle organized in the Cayman Islands, issued US$150 million of series 2017-1 and series 2017-2 notes.
The transaction closed on January 18, 2017.
Modern Times Group (MTG), a Swedish digital entertainment company, has agreed to sell its 50% shareholding in FTV Prima Holding, the second largest private Czech broadcaster, in a transaction valued at EUR 116 million. The buyer, Denemo Media, is a Czech joint venture between Denemo Invest, controlled by businessman Vladimir Komar via Alphaduct, and GES Media Asset owned by Ivan Zach. This transaction, which is subject to Czech regulatory approval, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017 and will return FTV Prima entirely back to Czech ownership.
Watson Farley & Williams LLP (“WFW”) has advised Commerz Real AG (“Commerz Real”) on all legal and tax aspects of its €105m acquisition of a German wind farm portfolio from UKA Umweltgerechte Kraftanlagen (“UKA”) on behalf of its newly formed closed-end special fund “CR Institutional Renewable Energies Fund”.
Ashurst is advising Credit Suisse International in relation to the £26.4 million recommended cash offer for NetPlay TV plc by Betsson AB (publ).
Allen & Overy advised Polski Fundusz Rozwoju S.A. in connection with the financing for the construction of a 3.7 kilometre stretch of the Lagiewnicka Route, i.e. the Third Krakow Bypass.
The complex restructuring of the well-known South African retail group, Edcon, completed yesterday. Weil played a leading role in the restructuring, advising the ad hoc committee of senior secured noteholders which included Franklin Templeton, Brigade, AllianceBernstein and Harvard Management Company.