Jones Day represented CaixaBank S.A. in connection with the €18 million (US$19.7 million) project financing for the development, construction, and exploitation of new office buildings in Barcelona, Spain developed by Grupo Castellví, Stoneweg, and Global Danbury.

For additional information about this matter, please contact: Javier López Antón
Client(s): CaixaBank S.A.
Practice(s): Banking & Finance, Projects & Infrastructure, Real Estate
Office(s): Madrid

Watson Farley and Williams LLP (“WFW”) in London acted for Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (“Crédit Agricole”) in relation to a US$64m loan facility made available to Ardmore to refinance existing indebtedness, in relation to two chemical tankers and to provide finance for Ardmore’s acquisition of two further chemical tankers.

Olswang has advised long-standing client InfraRed Capital Partners on the £38.4 million sale of Liverpool’s Clayton Square Shopping Centre to Rockspring’s UK Value 2 Fund. Located in central Liverpool, between Liverpool Lime Street and Liverpool Central Station, Clayton Square is 140,193 square feet with 17 retail units.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the lenders in relation to the €180m limited recourse financing provided to FVH1 S.r.l. The lenders are UBI Banca S.p.A., Banca IMI S.p.A., UniCredit S.p.A. and Mediocredito Italiano.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised leading non-bank lender Pepper Group Limited (ASX:PEP) on a whole loan sale transaction in Australia comprising a portfolio of A$400m residential mortgage loans.

This is the first whole loan sale transaction conducted by Pepper in 2016 and is strategically significant in facilitating the diversification of Pepper’s sources of funding outside of its regular securitisation programs.

Shearman & Sterling represented UBS AG, BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA and Credit Suisse AG in connection with Amgen Inc.’s Regulation S offering of CHF 700 million aggregate principal amount of 0.410% notes due 2023. Amgen is a global biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human therapeutics based on advances in cellular and molecular biology.

Shearman & Sterling advised Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., BNP Paribas and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. as underwriters in connection with the Republic of Peru’s SEC-registered issuance of  its 3.750% euro-denominated global bonds due 2030 for an aggregate principal amount of €1,000,000,000 .  This is the Republic of Peru’s second issuance of euro-denominated bonds.  The net proceeds from the offering will be used by the Republic of Peru to pre-finance a portion of the general financial requirements for fiscal year 2017.

With a Frankfurt-based team led by partner Thomas K. Schrell, the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Bremer Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft on financing the acquisition of minority interests in Altendorf group by the majority shareholders. The transaction volume was not disclosed.
 
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek supported Bremer Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft comprehensively in structuring, documenting, and negotiating the financing transaction.
 

With a Frankfurt-based team led by partner Thomas K. Schrell, the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised savings bank Kreissparkasse Göppingen and DZ Bank AG on the pro-rated financing of the acquisition of all shares in Binder group by funds under management of Bregal Unternehmerkapital. The transaction volume is some EUR 64 million.
 

Linklaters advised Natixis and Caisse d'Epargne et de Prévoyance Provence-Alpes-Corse (CEPAC) as mandated lead arrangers and lenders and Natixis as agent and hedging bank in relation to the refinancing of a portfolio of 15 rooftop photovoltaic power plants located on hypermarkets in the south of France, with an aggregated installed capacity of 31.17 MWp. The plants are co-owned by the DIF Infrastructure II investment fund and GreenYellow.