Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Citigroup and other lenders of Danaos on a $2.2 billion restructuring of NYSE-listed Danaos Corp (DAC), one of the world’s largest independent owners of modern, large-size containerships.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has advised China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited (‘CICC’), sole global coordinator, bookrunner and underwriter in the rights issue of China Everbright International Limited (‘China Everbright’) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
International law firm Ashurst is advising Peel Hunt in relation to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe's ('WCAS') £34 million recommended offer for Abzena plc.
Abzena provides specialist services and proprietary technologies to enable the selection, development and manufacturing of better biopharmaceuticals across its principal sites in Cambridge (UK), San Diego, California (USA) and Bristol, Pennsylvania (USA).
Simpson Thacher, acting as sole international counsel, represented Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Merrill Lynch International, Mizuho Securities Asia Limited, Shinhan Asia Limited and Shinhan Investment Corp., as dealers, in connection with the establishment of the US$5 billion Global Medium Term Note program of Shinhan Financial Group.
Skadden represented Goldman Sachs International, Cenkos Securities plc and Dean Street Advisers Limited as joint financial advisers to Bain Capital in the approximately £1.2 billion acquisition of esure Group plc, one of the U.K.’s leading providers of motor and home insurance products.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised a bank syndicate on the €825.5 million ten-year term refinancing of the A65 motorway concession in France.
The syndicate includes Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A., Banco de Sabadell S.A., Banco Santander S.A., Bankia, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank S.A., Commbank Europe Limited, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH, La Banque Postale and Société Générale. Institutional investors might also participate in the refinancing via the secondary market.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Intesa Sanpaolo, Mediobanca, UniCredit, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Banca IMI, as Agents, on a €350 million term and revolving credit facilities financing for Italian fashion company Valentino S.p.A.
The White & Case team in Milan which advised on the transaction comprised partners Iacopo Canino and Gianluca Fanti, associate Bianca Caruso and lawyer Valerio Marotta.
Cravath represented HDFC Bank Limited in connection with its $1.82 billion offering of American depositary shares. HDFC Bank Limited is a private sector bank in India. The shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Cravath also represented HDFC Bank Limited in its concurrent Indian domestic offering of equity shares. The transaction closed on August 2, 2018.
The Cravath team included partner Philip J. Boeckman and associates Michael L. Arnold, Yannick Adler and Ingo M. Berner on securities matters, and associates Andrew L. Mandelbaum and Cecily Xi on tax matters.
Willkie’s London and New York offices advised a syndicate of lenders on the refinancing of two facility agreements, secured by vessels owned and chartered by an international container ship operator.
Dewi Negara Fachri & Partners ("DNFP"), in association with Hogan Lovells, acted as Indonesian counsel in a US$28 million Series C funding for C88 Financial Technologies (Group) Pte Ltd ("C88"), a privately-held Singapore company which builds essential financial technology infrastructure. C88 owns and operates, through PT Puncak Finansial Utama ("PFU"), the Indonesian subsidiary of C88, CekAja.com, Indonesia's largest financial marketplace reaching tens of millions of consumers.