Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Deutsche Bank and HSBC as Joint Arrangers and Bookrunners on the refinancing of Autoroute de Liaison Seine-Sarthe (Alis) which operates a motorway between the city of Alençon and the Rouen area in France.
Slaughter and May advised Standard Chartered PLC on its issue of US$1,000,000,000 2.100% Senior Notes due 2019, US$750,000,000 Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2019 and US$1,250,000,000 4.300% Dated Subordinated Notes due 2027 under its US$77,500,000,000 Debt Issuance Programme.
BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Nomura and Standard Chartered Bank acted as joint lead managers on the issue of the Senior Notes. BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank acted as joint lead managers on the issue of the Dated Subordinated Notes.
On September 1, 2016, UBS Group Funding (Jersey) Limited completed its issuance of EUR 1.25 bn Bail-In Bonds under its USD 30 bn Senior Debt Programme (the "Programme"). The EUR 1.25 bn 1.25% Fixed Rate Notes due September 2026 (the "Notes") constitute the first issuance on a RegS only basis under the Programme and will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange Ltd.
Advising the group Bastide in connection with the setting up of a financing with a global amount €115M with an Euro PP insuance of €25M and a syndicated loan of €90M.
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King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised the World Bank on its first Special Drawing Rights (SDR) – denominated bond in the Chinese Inter-Bank Bond Market.
The bonds in an aggregate principal amount of 500 million SDRs were priced on 31 August 2016 and issued on 2 September 2016, achieving a landmark development for China’s bond market and for the SDR as an international reserve asset.
Freshfields has advised on Housing Development Finance Corporation’s further Masala bond issuances
Allen & Overy LLP has advised the bank consortium consisting of BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited as joint-lead managers as well as Commerzbank AG, HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and UniCredit Bank AG as co-lead-managers in connection with the successful issuance of unsubordinated unsecured convertible bonds of Klöckner & Co SE with a total volume of around EUR 150 million and a maturity of 7 years.
Opening of the Chinese domestic bond market to French issuers
Gide advised Veolia Environnement on the first issue of Panda Bonds, Renminbi denominated bonds issued on the Chinese domestic bond market, for an amount of RMB 1 billion (i.e. EUR 135 million).
The transaction was made under a Chinese law issuance programme of RMB 15 billion (i.e. EUR 2 billion), approved by the NAFMII (National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors) for a two-year term.
Gernandt & Danielsson advises in FastPartner’s issue of corporate bonds in the amount of SEK 600 million. The bonds are issued within the framework amount of MSEK 1,000. The company has undertaken to list the bonds on Nasdaq Stockholm. The proceeds from the bond issue will be used for property acquisitions, refinancing of existing bond debt and general corporate purposes.
FastPartner is a real estate company that owns, manages and develops its own commercial properties.
Slaughter and May has advised Nordea Bank AB (publ) (Nordea) in connection with its synthetic risk transfer securitisation related to EUR 8.4 billion of Nordea’s corporate and SME loan portfolio. Under the transaction, investors have agreed to invest in notes linked to the junior credit risk of the portfolio.
The transaction was arranged by joint structuring advisers Barclays, J.P. Morgan and Nordea Markets.
Slaughter and May led an integrated team of law firms advising Nordea.
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