Slaughter and May advised Deutsche Bank on its settlements with the UK's FCA and the US DOJ, CFTC and New York DFS in relation to global regulatory investigations into the setting of interbank offered benchmark rates. These settlements, which were announced on 23 April 2015, follow extensive regulatory investigations over a number of years in multiple jurisdictions.

Slaughter and May's Global Investigations Group team worked in close partnership with Hengeler Mueller and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

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Gide has advised Lendix on setting up its crowdfunding e-platform of the same name. It was launched in March 2015 by Olivier Goy, founder of independent management company 123Venture.

Osborne Clarke has advised Funding Circle, the world’s leading online marketplace for business lending, on its $150 million (c.£100 million) in equity capital fundraising.

Osborne Clarke's team was led by VC Partner Rob Wood, assisted by Simon Jones and James Taylor.

Omar Al-Nuaimi, OC's Finance Partner and client CRM for Funding Circle said:

Slaughter and May is advising GE Capital on certain UK aspects of the US$26.5 billion disposal of the majority of its real estate assets.

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Tax: William Watson (partner), Ed Milliner (associate); Corporate: Nilufer von Bismarck (partner), Lizzie Frost (associate)

Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, advised China Orient Asset Management (International) Holding Limited (COAMI) on the mandatory general offer made by its subsidiary, Smart Success Capital Limited (Smart Success), for the entire issued share capital of Shanghai Zendai Property Limited (Zendai) other than the 50.03% shares already acquired by Smart Success from certain existing shareholders.

Noerr has advised NORD/LB in connection with the financing of two corporate transactions. The deals involved the acquisition by private equity company WHEB Partners’ Growth Fund 2 of all shares in Dolan GmbH and the acquisition by investor Dr Jan Verdenhalven of all the shares in the Kelheim-based company European Carbon Fiber GmbH. The sellers are the Austrian Lenzing Group and Kelheim Fibres GmbH.

CMS Kyiv has successfully represented mBank, in a trademark dispute against Bank Mykhailivsky, one of the biggest Ukrainian banks in the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges acted as lead legal counsel on matters of Polish, U.K. and U.S. law to joint global coordinators Goldman Sachs International, Dom Maklerski Mercurius, Pekao Investment Banking and UniCredit Bank AG, in connection with the initial public offering (the IPO) of Idea Bank S.A. on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on April 16, 2015.

Simmons & Simmons is advising J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Numis as Joint Bookrunners in connection with the placing by The Unite Group plc (“Unite” or the “Company”) of new ordinary shares in the Company with institutional investors to raise approximately £115m announced on 16 April 2015 (the “Placing”).

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised L-Bank in respect of a majority takeover agreement between On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. (“OnSSI”) and SeeTec AG (“SeeTec”). Since 2009 L-Bank has been a major investor in SeeTec. The complex transaction was realized by way of a cross share deal.