DLA Piper advises Market Tech Holdings on its £900 million financing of its Camden Markets Portfolio

DLA Piper has advised Market Tech Holdings on its £900 million secured debt facility arranged by AIG Asset Management (Europe) Limited.  Market Tech Holdings owns 14 acres of iconic London real estate assets, including the main Camden Markets, with digital capabilities to deliver commercial, residential, living, leisure and retail space.

Berlin/Cologne, 2015-12-17 - Creditors of HETA ASSET RESOLUTION AG (HETA) entered into a lock-up agreement on Tuesday 15 December 2015. The parties to this agreement hold and/or control debt instruments amounting to about EUR 5.11 billion.

Linklaters advises Vonovia on the issue of bonds with a total value of three billion euros

Linklaters advised Vonovia on the issue of bonds with a total value of three billion euros. The Eurobonds were issued in three instalments. The coupons have an average interest rate of 1.69 per cent per year and an average maturity of over five years. This transaction marks the largest Eurobond issue in the real estate market to date.

Linklaters advised Bank of China Limited on the listing of a bond on the new China International Europe Exchange (CEINEX). The CNY 2 billion bond bearing interest at a rate of 3.6 per cent and maturing in 2017 was issued by the bank’s branch in Abu Dhabi. For this purpose, a stock exchange admission prospectus had been prepared, which was approved by the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).

MUNICH, December 8, 2015 – The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised Körber AG, the holding company of an international technology group headquartered in Hamburg with worldwide around 12,000 employees, on the placement of a €600 million promissory note loan. The issue of the promissory notes was arranged by Commerzbank and Helaba (Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen).

A Milbank team led by partner Thomas Ingenhoven advised Körber AG in relation to the financing.

Xior Student Housing (“Xior”) is the first Belgian public regulated real estate company (“B-REIT”) with a specific focus on student housing in Belgium and the Netherlands. Xior succesfully refinanced its historic real estate portfolio and a series of additional real estate acquisitions on 11 December 2015 by way of a combination of 87.8 million euro IPO proceeds complemented by 72.7 million euro bank financing.

Atlantica Tender Drilling Ltd. did on Friday 11 December take delivery of "Atlantica Delta", a semi-submersible tender assist support unit with integrated drilling package, from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co. Ltd. "Atlantica Delta" is destined for a term contract in the Congo with Total alongside the Moho Nord TLP.

Hogan Lovells has advised HNA Group, a Fortune 500 company and the owner of China's fourth largest airline, on the first phase of a complex circa €1.5bn debt finance raising in conjunction with HNA Group's CHF2.7 billion (enterprise value) acquisition of the Swissport Group, the world’s largest ground and cargo handling company, from PAI Partners.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Unigroup International Holdings Ltd. (Tsinghua Unigroup) on its issuance of two tranches of bonds with a cumulative value of US$800m.

The first tranche of bonds are 5.250 per cent bonds due 2018, and the second tranche, due 2020, were priced at 6.00 per cent.

Tsinghua Unigroup is a diversified high-technology company based in mainland China, with substantial holdings in technology and infrastructure assets, as well as significant investments in the United States.

Squire Patton Boggs has advised Raiffeisen Bank International AG Vienna on a €25 million multi-jurisdictional factoring transaction for Lasselsberger, s.r.o. and LB Minerals, s.r.o.

A cross-border team from Squire Patton Boggs’ offices in Frankfurt, Bratislava, Prague, Paris and Warsaw advised on the Czech, French, German, Slovak and Polish law aspects of the sale and servicing arrangements for a portfolio of trade receivables originated by Lasselsberger, a leading European producer of raw materials, building materials and ceramic tiles.