Dentons has advised The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) on extending a US$69 million loan to the Russian State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) to finance the construction of the Lavna Coal Transshipment Terminal at the Murmansk sea port. The loan agreement was signed by BSTDB President Dmitry Pankin and STLC Director General Sergey Khramagin in the presence of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi.

The BSTDB loan is the Bank's largest investment in Russian infrastructure development to date.

Allen & Overy advised Goldman Sachs and Jefferies Finance, LLC as joint physical bookrunners and Deutsche Bank, RBC Capital Markets and Antares as bookrunners in connection with a EU515 million first lien debt financing package consisting of (i) a EU450 million term loan and (ii) a EU65 million revolving credit facility for the acquisition by BVI Medical, Inc., a US-based TPG portfolio company, of PhysIOL Group SA and its subsidiaries, a primarily Belgian- and UK-based ophthalmology group specializing in the research, development and manufacture of intraocular lenses, phaco equipment an

Doumob (HKEX: 1917) was successfully listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Clifford Chance Amsterdam acted as transaction counsel on the sale by certain shareholders of approximately 2.5 million shares in the capital of Euronext listed company Adyen, the Netherlands-based payments platform provider. The sale was carried out through an accelerated bookbuild offering to institutional investors and settled on Thursday 14 March 2019.

Eversheds Sutherland advises Charter Court Financial Services’ management team on £1.6bn merger

Eversheds Sutherland has advised the management team of longstanding client Charter Court Financial Services (Charter Court), on its £1.6 billion merger with OneSavings Bank.

Charter Court is one of the UK’s leading specialist mortgage lenders. Both companies offer mortgage and saving services.

Hogan Lovells, led by Frankfurt partner Jochen Seitz, has advised the joint lead manager Banco Santander, S.A., Bayerische Landesbank, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank (technical lead) and SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited on the placement of four bonds of Volkswagen Bank GmbH with a total volume of 2.5 billion Euros, which was completed on 31 January 2019.

Linklaters acted as international counsel to the underwriters, on the successful offering of US$500 million bonds (“US Dollar Bonds”) by an overseas subsidiary of, and guaranteed by, Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd and (“Guotai Junan Securities”) and a separate direct offering of €255 million bonds (“Euro Bonds”), by Guotai Junan Securities. The US Dollar Bonds and the Euro Bonds were issued a day apart, and both transactions are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Linklaters acted as international counsel to the underwriters, on the successful offering of US$500 million bonds (“US Dollar Bonds”) by an overseas subsidiary of, and guaranteed by, Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd and (“Guotai Junan Securities”) and a separate direct offering of €255 million bonds (“Euro Bonds”), by Guotai Junan Securities. The US Dollar Bonds and the Euro Bonds were issued a day apart, and both transactions are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Schulte lawyers are representing Transfast and GCP Capital Partners in the acquisition of Transfast by Mastercard. Transfast is a global cross-border payments network provider that covers over 125 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia. Transfast is backed by GCP Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm managing three active funds with $1.4 billion in committed capital that has financial technology as one its core focus areas, and Apis Partners.

Slaughter and May is advising OneSavings Bank plc (OSB), the specialist lending and retail savings group, on its recommended all-share combination with Charter Court Financial Services Group plc (Charter Court), pursuant to which OSB will acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Charter Court. Under the terms of the combination, which values Charter Court at approximately £800m, OSB shareholders will own approximately 55% of the share capital of the combined group.