Slaughter and May, working as a team with Cleary, Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, advised Santander UK Group Holdings Plc on the English law aspects of its SEC registration of its US shelf programme. Under the shelf programme, Santander UK Group Holdings Plc may issuer senior notes.
Slaughter and May, working as a team with Cleary, Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, advised Abbey National Treasury Services plc in relation to the issue of US$ 1,000,000,000 notes under its SEC registered US shelf facility.
The issue, announced on 24 August 2015, comprises US$ 750,000,000 2.000% notes due 2018 and US$ 250,000,000 floating rate notes due 2018.
Linklaters has advised the underwriters in connection with Baosteel Group’s issuance of a US$500 million bond exchangeable into Hong Kong listed H-shares of China Construction Bank Corporation.
Hwang Hwa Sim, Capital Markets partner at Linklaters who led on this transaction, said the deal opens up a new asset class for investors and has created pricing visibility for future equity linked deals from the 200-plus China incorporated companies whose H-shares are listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Clifford Chance advised a banking consortium including, among others, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland and UniCredit on the amend and extend of the existing senior debt facilities for German energy services provider, Techem.
The resulting financing package comprises currently committed facilities having a total volume of EUR 815 million.
Gide advised BNP Paribas, HSBC, Natixis and Société Générale, as joint lead managers, on the issuance by SEB of its € 500 million 2.375 per cent. notes due 2022, admitted on Euronext Paris.
Gide's team was led by Hubert du Vignaux (partner), assisted by Laurent Vincent and Aude-Laurène Dourdain.
The Issuer was not assisted by an external counsel.
DLA Piper has advised Westpac and St. George Bank on a syndicated facility for the SG Fleet Group in relation to SG Fleet's circa AU$200 million acquisition of salary packager NLC (announced to the ASX on 17 November 2015 and due to close before the end of 2015).
Clifford Chance has advised China Construction Bank on the acquisition of the Bockenheimer Landstraße 73-77 property in Frankfurt.
The property includes an office building constructed in 1962, with a gross external area (GEA) of around 6,800 square metres, and a residential property of about 1,000 sqare metres GEA built in 1996. The seller is Frankfurt Union GmbH.
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Tyro Payments Limited on its A$100m capital raising, with capital being contributed by private equity fund Tiger Global, TDM Asset Management and existing shareholders.
Tyro is Australia’s only independent and fastest growing EFTPOS provider. Tyro serves 14,000+ customers, processes over $7 billion annually in card transactions, and has tailored best-fit solutions for the retail, health and hospitality sectors. Tyro joins the wave of Australian emerging companies showing strong signs of growth in the fintech industry.
Mayer Brown JSM acted as the legal adviser for BOCI Asia Limited and China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited as the joint bookrunners on the US$121 million global offering and listing of Flat Glass Group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
White & Case LLP has advised a consortium of banks that included Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs International, Santander GBM and Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking on the issuance by PZU Finance AB (publ) of registered bonds of a total nominal value of €350 million.