Vinge advised Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with its recommended cash offer for Powerflute Oyj.
Vinge’s team included Jonas Bergström and Matthias Pannier. Louise Brorsson Salomon and Anna-Maria Terzi advised on the financing of the transaction.
Swiss insurtech startup FinanceFox has successfully completed its Series A financing round with Target Global and Horizons Ventures as lead investors. The financing round also included the conversion of existing venture loan investments from, amongst others, Salesforce Ventures. Idinvest, Speedinvest and AngelList.
Norton Rose Fulbright's Washington, DC and New York offices advised IDB (Inter-American Development Bank), Proparco (the private sector financing arm of Agence Française de Développement), DEG (Deutsche Investitions - und Entwicklungsgesellschaft), FMO (the Dutch development bank) and commercial B lenders on US$265m of loans to Kingston Freeport Terminal LTD (KFTL).
Muscat—Dentons advised BankDhofar on the issuance of 200 million rights issue shares at an issue price of 200 baiza per share. The rights issue was fully subscribed.
The transaction is an important milestone for BankDhofar with regard to its compliance obligations with the Basel III guidelines.
Allen & Overy advised COMMERZBANK Aktiengesellschaft in connection with a Japanese operating lease transaction including a call option (JOLCO) with Deutsche Lufthansa AG in respect of two Airbus A320-214 aircraft registered in Germany.
The JOLCO transaction, which is to involve Japanese equity and debt capital, was financed by COMMERZBANK Aktiengesellschaft, Tokyo branch. COMMERZBANK Aktiengesellschaft, Luxembourg branch acted as security agent.
Allen & Overy has advised Goldman Sachs International and UniCredit Bank AG as Joint Bookrunners on the cash capital increase of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE raising gross proceeds of approx. EUR 515 million.
Allen & Overy LLP advised Oesterreichische Kontrollbank on legal aspects of its public offering of $600 million of Floating Rate Guaranteed Global Notes due 2019.
The bonds are guaranteed by the Republic of Austria and will be listed on the regulated market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
Clifford Chance is advising the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on the establishment of a European investment fund that is focused on projects in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The fund is part of China's major initiative to develop a modern silk road – 'One Belt One Road', and was formally announced at the China and CEE Countries Summit in Riga, Latvia on 5 November 2016.
With a Frankfurt-based team led by partner Thomas K. Schrell, the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised a banking syndicate on financing the acquisition of the quartz glass plant of Dutch technology group Philips by Thuringian quartz glass manufacturer QSIL. The syndicate of lenders, headed by Helaba, consists of savings banks. The financing volume was not disclosed.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised the Korean export credit agency, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (“K-sure”), the ECA co-ordinator, HSBC, the commercial facility co-ordinator, Standard Chartered Bank, the K-sure covered facility lenders and the commercial facility lenders, on the structuring and documentation of a complex multi-jurisdictional ethane ship financing for Reliance, marking the company’s biggest maritime initiative in recent times.