Shearman & Sterling advised Merrill Lynch International as global coordinator and ABN AMRO, Barclays, Citigroup and Crédit Agricole as joint bookrunners on InterXion's offering of €1,000,000,000 4 ¾ % senior notes due 2025. The firm also advised ABN AMRO, Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup and Crédit Agricole as arrangers in connection with a new €200 million revolving credit facility made available to InterXion.

Jones Day represented Promotora y Desarrolladora Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican engineering and construction company, in connection with a MXN$3.3 billion (US$165 million) loan facility for general corporate purposes and the acquisition of Trust Certificates (Certificados Bursátiles Fiduciarios).

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Allen & Overy LLP has advised Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A. ("Siemens Gamesa") on concluding a EUR 2.5 billion syndicated loan.

This is the first transaction in the syndicated credit market for Siemens Gamesa.

The syndicated loan replaces a EUR 750 million credit facility dating from 2017 and is to serve general corporate purposes and the refinancing of existing debt.  The financing includes a EUR 2 billion revolving credit facility due in 2023 with two extension options of one year each and a EUR 500 million credit facility due in 2021.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and the lenders on an English law governed S$500 million senior secured term loan syndicated facility for Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing company Grab Inc.

The financing is scalable with a potential upsize to S$800 million. The deal was oversubscribed, with a total of 16 bank and non-bank financial institutions participating.

HSBC was structuring advisor, mandated lead arranger, and bookrunner on the deal.

International law firm Ashurst advised debt fund Ares Management Limited (Ares) as arranger in relation to the financing of the acquisition of finanzen de Vermittlungsgesellschaft für Verbraucherverträge AG (Finanzen) by a company associated with Eli Global from French private equity firm Blackfin Capital Partners and Finanzen's founders.

CMS has advised on the arrangement of bilateral senior debt facilities to support LoopUp in its acquisition of conferencing services provider MeetingZone. The acquisition, which is worth around £61.4m, constitutes a reverse takeover.

LoopUp is a premium remote meetings solution that makes it easier to collaborate in real time. Its acquisition of MeetingZone supports its mission to transition mainstream conference callers away from ‘dialling in’ with phone numbers and access codes to a better, more productive remote meeting experience.

The Firm recently represented China National Chemical Corporation (“ChemChina”) on a US$5.5 billion syndicated refinancing (the “Refinancing Facilities”). The Refinancing Facilities paid off the outstanding amounts under the US$12.7 billion holdco acquisition facility entered into in connection with ChemChina’s acquisition of Swiss agrochemical and seeds company Syngenta AG, on which Simpson Thacher also represented. The Refinancing Facilities were fully underwritten by more than 15 financial institutions.