Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Klépierre, a leading European pure play shopping centre property company, on its acquisition of Spanish shopping centre Nueva Condomina for €233 million.
Klépierre purchased 100 percent of the shares in the Spanish entity that directly owns Nueva Condomina from a subsidiary of BNP Paribas Fortis, and financed the acquisition through available credit lines.
Ashurst has advised Jemena on its A$392 million acquisition of the Darling Downs Pipeline from Origin Energy, which links the Wallumbilla Gas Hub with the Talinga Gas Plant and Origin Energy's Darling Downs Power Station.
The transaction involved Jemena acquiring 100% of the shares from three Origin Energy companies that hold licenses for the Darling Downs Pipeline, which are the Oil Company of Australia (Moura) Transmissions Pty Ltd, Origin Energy Walloons Transmissions Pty Ltd and Origin Energy Wallumbilla Transmissions Pty Ltd.
Hogan Lovells has acted for Ventiga Capital Partners LLP ("Ventiga") on the acquisition of Infare Solutions A/S ("Infare") through a joint venture with Infare's current shareholders, and Infare's subsequent acquisition of airline and airport data contracts from QL2 Software LLC.
Infare is a Danish entity which specialises in airfare analytics in relation to airfare observations from airline and OTA booking sites. It delivers airfare observations to each of its customers which can be monitored and analysed through their bespoke analytic tools.
We acted as the legal advisor to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (MMC) in its acquisition of Luvata’s Special Products division from funds managed by Nordic Capital. The transaction was signed on 28 September 2016 and closed on 2 May 2017. Castren & Snellman’s team is led by partner Jarno Tanhuanpää.
Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised Pradera Ltd on the purchase of three retail parks in France. The sites are part of a portfolio of 25 Ikea retail parks across Europe acquired by Pradera, valued at €900million.
The retail parks, situated next to Ikea stores, comprise circa 500 units and cover approximately 538,000 square metres.
One chapter of the existing crisis in the Swiss ship-owning industry has been largely settled via the sale of 12 vessels onto the Swiss market, leaving the Swiss Government with substantial losses resulting from its guarantor position of those particular ships. Schellenberg Wittmer has held a leading counsel role in this matter and transaction - first in the successful arbitration between a Canadian ship-owner against the SCL Reederei AG, led by Trade & Transport partner Alexander von Ziegler with the associates Angelina M. Petti and Anya George.
Baker McKenzie is advising longstanding client, Unilever, on its acquisition of the personal care and homecare brands of Quala, the Latin American consumer goods company. The acquisition will strengthen Unilever's footing in Latin America, and reinforces Unilever's commitment to its long-term model of compounding growth and sustainable value creation.
Travers Smith LLP has acted for Impact Healthcare REIT plc (Impact Healthcare) on the acquisition of 56 residential care homes and their letting to the Minster Group and the Croftwood Group. This comprised of 2,479 beds and is the first acquisition for Impact Healthcare following its IPO in March 2017.
Macfarlanes has acted for Sam Laidlaw and the senior management of Neptune Oil & Gas in connection with Neptune's recent deal to acquire a majority stake in Engie’s oil and gas unit for $3.9bn (£3bn) backed by funds provided by the PE funds CVC and Carlyle and CIC, the Chinese state owned corporation.
The deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018, includes several fields in the UK and Norwegian North Sea and assets in Germany, Algeria, Egypt and Asia, producing more than 150,000 barrels per day of oil and gas equivalent.
Setterwalls has assisted Riksbyggen in its acquisition of the district Abborren 2 from Malmö Stenhus AB. The Abborren district is located in Malmö at Citadellsvägen, which will eventually be transformed into boardwalk. This creates the opportunity to create a unique residential location along Malmö’s channels. The plan is to build approx. 250 homes in the area in the future.
Setterwalls’ team consisted mainly of Anders Linnerborg, Linda Jönsjö, Tove Skärblom, Johan Ramklint and Jakob Ekesbo.