Advising the lenders (Société Générale) in connection with the financing of a partnership agreement (PPP) between the University of Lorraine (Oparetion Campus) and the project company Melotech, subsidiary of Eiffage.
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Slaughter and May advised Santander Consumer (UK) plc (SCUK) as originator in relation to SCUK's Motor-2015 UK auto loan ABS transaction.
Clifford Chance has advised UBS Group in the change of control procedure and filings with the ACPR and the European Central Bank in the context of the creation of a new holding company for the purposes of ensuring a better resolvability of the group (and especially the exercise of bail-in by the resolution authorities) under the new EU regime deriving from the banking resolution directive and CRD IV.
White & Case LLP has advised Banca IMI S.p.A., as Italian Lead Manager, and the Institutional Managers Banca IMI S.p.A., Merrill Lynch International, Goldman Sachs International, UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited and HSBC Bank plc, on the €414.1 million initial public offering of OVS S.p.A. on the Milan Stock Exchange.
Watson Farley & Williams recently advised a Scandinavian shipping finance provider on its compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or “FATCA,” a tax withholding and reporting regime enacted by the United States that applies to financial institutions worldwide. Although FATCA was passed into law in 2010, it only went into effect in July 2014. Furthermore, the US has entered into intergovernmental agreements or “IGAs” with several countries, which have not yet released FATCA legal or administrative guidance. As a result, there remai
Simpson Thacher has represented Blackstone Capital Partners and CVC Capital Partners on the sale of their respective remaining stakes in Merlin Entertainments Plc (“Merlin”). The secondary offering, which was effected pursuant to a block trade by way of an accelerated book build, raised gross sale proceeds of approximately £653 million (US$1 billion).
Ashurst has advised HSBC and Numis Securities in their capacity as joint bookrunners in connection with a placing of new A ordinary shares in the capital of Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) B Limited (the "Company"), raising gross proceeds of £100 million.
Ashurst Hong Kong advised Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited on the proposed HKD880.5 million privatisation of HKSE-listed econtext Asia Limited by way of scheme of arrangement. Nomura acted as the financial adviser to Digital Garage, Inc., the controlling shareholder of econtext Asia and the offeror in the proposed privatisation.
Ashurst advised the ad hoc committee of bondholders in connection with the recapitalisation of Petropavlovsk PLC, one of the Russia's leading gold mining groups with total group financial indebtedness of bank and bond debt of over $1 billion.
The recapitalisation includes a new five-year $100 million convertible bond and a $235.4 million rights issue, underwritten in cash and debt by the bondholders and in cash by the founding shareholders.
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine has advised Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley as joint dealer managers on exchange offer for USD 500 million 7.875% guaranteed notes due 2016 issued by Ferrexpo Finance plc. The exchange offer completed on 24 February 2015.