Hogan Lovells advised African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) as mandated lead arranger and lender in relation to the pre-delivery and delivery financing for Kenya Airways Limited of ten Embraer E-190 aircraft and the pre-delivery financing of nine Boeing 787 aircraft and one Boeing 777 aircraft.

Travers Smith partner Philip Cheveley and senior corporate associate Mohammed Senouci are advising Cenkos Securities plc in its capacity as sponsor and broker to Helphire Group plc ("Helphire") in connection with their proposed firm placing and placing and open offer to raise £25.6 million (before expenses) (the "Capital Raising"), debt restructuring and delisting from the Official List and admission to AIM.

Norton Rose congratulates its clients who were involved in four of the winning deals at Canada's premier deal-making awards program—the 2012 Canadian Dealmakers. The awards were presented on February 27, 2013 in Toronto.

Norton Rose acted for:

PETRONAS for its $5.8 billion acquisition of Progress Energy Resources Corp.

PETRONAS—Winner of the Foreign Inbound - Asia Award

Provident Energy Ltd. on its C$3.2 billion acquisition by Pembina Pipeline Corporation

Pembina—Winner of the Energy Industry Award

Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP (“WFW”) is pleased to announce that it acted as legal advisor to DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd and Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale on a loan facility led by DVB’s chemical, LPG and product tanker group to refinance 16 LPG carriers.  The financing was implemented following a merger by Epic Shipping and Pantheon Inc for which DVB Corporate Finance separately served as exclusive financial advisor.  Both the merger transaction and associated financing involved multiple jurisdictions including Panama, Malta, the Mars

Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP (“WFW”) is pleased to announce that it advised Standard Chartered Bank, DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd and ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Singapore Branch on a US$135 million senior loan facility to Vision Drilling Pte Ltd to finance part of the construction of a Keppel FELS B Class jack-up rig named "Dynamic Vision".

On Tuesday 26 February 2013 the PPP project A1/A6 Diemen – Almere Havendreef in the Netherlands reached Financial Close. This project is part of the highway extension program Schiphol-Amsterdam-Almere (SAA). The financing agreements were signed, which marks the successful completion of the tender procedure for the design, build, financing and maintenance of the extension of the A1/A6 Diemen – Almere Havendreef.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising longstanding client National Bank of Greece (NBG) on an all-share buyout of Greek lender Eurobank. The deal clears the way for a merger to form the country’s biggest lender.
NBG offered 58 new shares for every 100 shares of Eurobank. The combined entity will have total assets of €174 billion, loans of €113 billion and deposits of €85 billion based on their financial statements at end-September 2012 along with a significant presence in Turkey, Romania and Serbia.

Clifford Chance recently advised the European Stability Mechanism ("ESM") on its debt issuance programme and on the inaugural issue of EUR 39 billion of notes, on 5 December 2012.

The first issue of ESM notes was used to finance the first ESM lending operation to the Kingdom of Spain to finance the re-capitalisation of the Spanish banking sector.

Five different offices of Clifford Chance were involved in this transaction:

Ashurst advises Crédit Agricole on the refinancing of the Gras Savoye group's debt

Ashurst has advised Caisse Régionale de Crédit Agricole Mutuel de Paris
et d'Ile-de-France ("Crédit Agricole Ile De France") and Caisse Régionale de Crédit Agricole Mutuel de Nord France ("Crédit Agricole Nord De France") on the refinancing of the existing LBO debt of the Gras Savoye group.

International law firm Clifford Chance is advising the lenders on the financing of a USD 88,5 million 15-year loan granted to the company Polesine S.A., a subsidiary of Akuo Energy S.A.S., to finance the construction and operation of a wind farm in Uruguay. The Lenders were PROPARCO, which arranged the financing, FMO and DEG, respectively the French, Dutch and German development finance institutions.