Sidley has acted as the legal advisor to the underwriters and joint sponsors in the global offering and listing of Bank of Jiujiang Co., Ltd. (HKEX: 6190) (Bank of Jiujiang) on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Our clients were Silk Road International Capital Limited, Haitong International Securities Company Limited, CMB International Capital Limited and ICBI International Capital Limited as the underwriters, as well as ABCI Capital Limited and China Securities (International) Corporate Finance Company Limited as both the underwriters and joint sponsors.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised Bank of Jiujiang Co., Ltd. on its US$486 million (HK$3.816 billion) initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Partners Tim Wang, Amy Lo and Jean Thio led on the deal, with support from consultants Tianning Xiang and Corey Zhang, senior associate Lawrence Zhang, associates Janet Tang, Samson Chan, Aimee Yi, Vicky Zheng and paralegal Aidan Yu.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright’s teams in London, Mexico City and Ottawa have successfully advised on the debt funding of the strategically significant Sonora lithium project in Mexico, ultimately owned by the AIM-listed Bacanora Lithium Plc.

The teams assisted RK Mine Finance, an affiliate of the Red Kite investment group, in reaching financial close in connection with the financing of the development of this project.

Martin McCann, Global Head of Business at Norton Rose Fulbright, commented:

Cravath represented the initial purchasers, led by Citigroup and NatWest Markets, in connection with the EU600 million Regulation S senior notes offering of Smurfit Kappa Acquisitions Unlimited Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Smurfit Kappa Group plc. Smurfit Kappa Group plc is one of the world's largest integrated manufacturers of paper-based packaging products, with operations in Europe, Latin America, the United States and Canada. Proceeds of the offering were used to finance the acquisition of Reparenco Holding B.V. and to repay existing indebtedness.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Vontobel and Zürcher Kantonalbank, as bookrunners, on Sunrise Communications AG’s CHF 200 million secured bond issue.

The bonds have a term of six years and a fixed coupon of 1.500%, and will be admitted to trading on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Groundbreaking project to enable issuance of tokenized equity to institutional investors.

Nivaura, a leading financial technology firm, will participate in the fourth cohort of the FCA’s Regulatory Sandbox alongside 20|30, a UK company building a blockchain-based platform for corporate equity issuance.

Clifford Chance has advised Global Jet Capital, Inc., as servicer, and Business Jet Securities 2018-2, LLC, as issuer, on the issuance of $674 million of secured notes in an asset backed securitization on June 28, 2018. The securitization ("BJETS 2018-2"), is the second ABS offering that Global Jet Capital has closed in the last four months, bringing total assets securitized to over $1.5 billion (by asset value).