Goldman Sachs has participated as main investor in windeln.de’s latest financing round. Existing investors Deutsche Bank and DN Capital also took part in the financing round, which saw windeln.de raising a further EUR 45 million in capital. 

Following its recent advising of Goldman Sachs on its acquisition of a stake in online eyewear retailer Mister Spex, this is the second time within a relatively short period that Gleiss Lutz has acted for the US investment bank on one of the largest venture capital financing rounds of the past twelve months in Germany. 

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised the private equity arm of EFG Hermes, the leading investment bank in the Middle East, and its investment vehicle Vortex Energy Investments, in relation to the €160 million acquisition of a 49% stake in EDP Renewables France.

Shearman & Sterling advised Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden NV (FMO), the Dutch development finance institution, as arranger and a consortium of international and Nepalese lenders on the financing for the 82 MW Lower Solu run of the river hydropower project in the Solukhumbu district in Nepal.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised DNB Bank ASA (“DNB”) and ING Bank N.V. as global coordinators and DNB as agent for a syndicate of banks, on a US$110 million senior secured credit facility made available to a special purpose vehicle (SPV) subsidiary jointly owned by Ocean Yield ASA (“Ocean Yield”) and SBM Holding Luxembourg S.à r.l. (“SBM”).

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised BNP Paribas Securities (Asia) Limited as the sole sponsor, sole bookrunner and sole lead manager on the HK$120.6 million Hong Kong IPO of Oriental University City Holdings (H.K.) Limited.

Oriental University City will be listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 16 January 2015.

Ashurst advised BNP Paribas and CLSA as joint sponsors and global coordinators on China Maple Leaf Education System's HK$962 million IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ('HKEx').

Ashurst advised Macquarie Capital on the acquisition and financing of an 49.89 per cent interest in offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2 in the Baltic Sea. The shares were sold by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG ("EnBW") for €720 million. A corresponding purchase agreement for the acquisition of shares in the future joint company holding the wind farm as well as a shareholder's agreement have now been signed.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd. Hong Kong Branch on the second drawdown of its US$5 billion Medium Term Note (MTN) Program established in 2014.

The second drawdown consisted of RMB1 billion Formosa bonds, issued and listed in Taiwan, and another RMB1 billion worth of Lion City bonds, issued and listed in Singapore. The Formosa bonds have a 4.05% coupon and will mature in 2019 while the Lion City bonds have a 3.95% coupon and mature in 2017.

Linklaters are advising the banks on the recently announced merger of Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd. (“Cheung Kong”) and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (“Hutchison Whampoa”) and the subsequent spin off and listing of their property businesses. The deal includes a 6% increase of Hutchison Whampoa’s stake in Husky Energy Inc. The Linklaters team is being led by partner Craig Dally in the Hong Kong office, together with Hong Kong partner Rob Cleaver, US partner, Pam Shores and Managing Associate Alex Bidlake.