UniCredit Bank Austria AG and UniCredit Bulbank AD have jointly participated in the refinancing of the largest office park in Southeastern Europe - Business Park Sofia (BPS) by underwriting a € 103.3 million senior facility. The facility and security agent, account bank, and hedge provider of the transaction is UniCredit Bulbank AD.
P+P Pöllath + Partners advised the Bader Group in connection with the refinancing of its existing bank financing. The new banking syndicate is made up of Baden-Württembergische Bank, a legally dependent institution of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Bremer Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Sparkasse Ulm and Volksbank Ulm-Biberach eG. As arrangers served the Bremer Bank Aktiengesellschaft and the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, which also has taken over the functions of an agent as well as security trustee.
Linklaters has advised Seven Energy International Limited as it entered into a senior debt facility totalling up to US$445m for Seven Energy’s indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Accugas Limited. The facility, arranged by FBN Capital and FCMB Capital Markets, will be used to refinance Accugas’ existing project-finance and acquisition-finance senior debt facilities as well as to support additional medium-term capital requirements.
Hogan Lovells has advised Volkswagen as transaction counsel on its French auto loan receivables securitisation.
The transaction was arranged by BNP Paribas and Volkswagen Financial Services with BNP Paribas and Commerzbank as Joint Lead Managers.
The €481,200,000 notes were issued by its French FCT (fonds commun de titrisation à compartiments) Driver France FCT through its compartment Driver France Two and listed on the regulated market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
Hogan Lovells has advised BMW Finance as transaction counsel on its first ever French auto lease ABS. This transaction is a market first for BMW in France and has been lauded as a "landmark" transaction.
The transaction was arranged by Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank with BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as Joint Lead Managers.
Temenos Group AG announced the issuance of a CHF 175,000,000 Bond.
Credit Suisse AG and BZ Bank Aktiengesellschaft acted as managers for this issuance. The Bonds are being listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Homburger acted as lead counsel in this transaction. The Homburger team included Dieter Gericke (Partner, Corporate M&A), Reto Heuberger (Partner, Tax) and Eduard De Zordi (Counsel, Financial Services).
Advising Tessenderlo Group for the issuance and public offering of bonds to retail investors for the amount of EUR 250 million.
This transaction followed the 2014 equity rights public offering in which Stibbe advised Tessenderlo Group as well.
With a team led by Dr. Anne de Boer from its Stuttgart office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Parkstadt Center S.A. and Parkstadt Hotel S.A. on issuing a bond of up to EUR 30 million for the continued financing of an existing real estate portfolio in the Munich district of Schwabing-Freimann.
Castrem & Snellman advised TVR in the issue and listing of a EUR 600 million fixed rate unsecured bond rated by Standard & Poor’s. The bond was listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki on 25 June 2015.
TVR’s team of advisers included Partners Tero Tuomisto and Janne Lauha, Counsel Joni Painilainen, Counsel Mikko Heinonen as well as Associate Aksu Tuominen.
Clifford Chance has advised ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (hereinafter "ABN AMRO") on a successful offering of EUR 1.5bn Tier 2 capital instruments. Remarkable about the transaction is that ABN AMRO, being advised by UBS, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, BAML and ABN AMRO's own Debt Capital Markets Origination team, was one of the few institutions/banks that seized the tiny issuance window of opportunity on the morning of 23 June 2015 and was able to successfully draw within a couple of hours almost EUR 8bn of orders from investors.