Gernandt & Danielsson has advised the managers (10 banks in total) with respect to Swedish law in connection with the IPO. Managers are in this context Goldman Sachs and Nordea as Joint Global Coordinators, Carnegie, Danske Bank, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan and UBS as Joint Bookrunners and ABG Sundal Collier, DNB Markets and SEB as Co-Lead Managers.
On 9 December 2016, advised by King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), China Financial Co., Ltd. (CSC Financial, stock code: 6066) had its H shares listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The consortium led by VINCI has finalised the acquisition from the French State of its majority shareholding in Aéroports de Lyon (ADL), the company operating the airports of Lyon-Saint Exupéry (the fourth largest airport in France) and Lyon-Bron. The consortium, comprising VINCI Airports, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Predica Prévoyance Dialogue du Crédit Agricole, acquired the 60 per cent. stake in ADL in the context of the privatisation of Nice and Lyon airports which had been launched by the loi Macron in August 2015.
White & Case LLP and Ivorian law firm Jean-François Chauveau have advised Société Générale de Banques en Côte d'Ivoire (SGBCI) and Société Générale, as arrangers, and a group of lenders comprising SGBCI, Société Générale, Société Ivoirienne de Banque (SIB), Banque Atlantique de Côte d'Ivoire (BACI), Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie de Côte d'Ivoire (BICICI), BNP Paribas Fortis, Chaabi International Bank Offshore (CIB Offshore) and Standard Chart
Shearman & Sterling represented Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. (BoCom), one of the five largest banks in China, in the closing of its acquisition of approximately 80% of the total outstanding shares of Brazil’s Banco BBM S.A. (BBM Bank). The transaction was completed on November 30, 2016, and BBM Bank has become a non-wholly owned subsidiary of BoCom.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has recently advised on successful capital markets transactions for International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), Megawide Construction Corporation (Megawide), BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO) and Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (Shell Philippines).
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Baker & McKenzie advised CRX Markets AG, Munich, on the structuring and implementation of a supply chain finance program for Nestlé S.A.. The Supply Chain Finance program allows suppliers to sell their claims against Nestlé at a favorable price before maturity. The strategic objective of the program is to further strengthen the long-term collaboration between Nestlé and its suppliers. CRX is launching the program in Asia, in 2017 Europe and America are on the agenda.
Gide advised a syndicate of banks constituted by Société Générale, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Crédit Industriel et Commercial, Mizuho International plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on the issuance by Vivendi of 600 million 1.125 per cent. notes due November 2023 and listed on Euronext Paris.
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier advised Vivendi.
Gide's team was led by partner Hubert du Vignaux, assisted by Laurent Vincent, Aude-Laurène Dourdain and Mariléna Gryparis.
Simmons & Simmons has advised on the flotation of Oxford BioDynamics on AIM.
The Simmons & Simmons team, led by partner Charles Mayo, advised the nominated adviser and broker Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited on the admission of Oxford BioDynamics to AIM and the placing of 12,658,228 Ordinary Shares at 158 pence per share, giving it a market capitalisation of around £136m.
Clifford Chance has advised Amsterdam-headquartered private, retail and corporate banking provider ABN AMRO on the sale of its private banking operations in Asia and the Middle East to international private banking and asset management group LGT. The transaction involved the divestment of ABN AMRO's Asia and Middle East operations which manage around US $20 billion of client assets as the group seeks to strengthen and grow it's Northwest Europe private banking operations.