Cleantech Building Materials plc ("CBM"), a UK-incorporated company, has listed on Nasdaq First North, Copenhagen, with assistance from Gowling WLG's Corporate team.

Gowling WLG originally set up the company as a 'cash shell' in early 2015, and assisted with the previous admission of CBM's shares to listing on the UK Listing Authority's Official List (standard listing segment) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities in February 2015.

On December 31st 2016, PINOVA Capital, an independent Private Equity firm based in Munich, Germany, successfully closed its second private equity fund with a volume of EUR 180m. (hard cap).

PINOVA Fund 2 is a private limited partnership, structured in line with the EuVECA regulations. With the second fund PINOVA continues its successful strategy of making majority and qualified minority investments in high-growth, small- and medium-sized companies in Germany defined as the "Innovativer Mittelstand".

King & Wood Mallesons, Bar Pacific Group Holdings Limited (Bar Pacific Group, Stock Code: 8432) launched its initial public offering on the GEM Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE). The IPO comprised a total of 215 million shares issued. Priced at HK$0.29 per share, the IPO raised a net amount of approximately HK$45.2 million. This transaction marks the first bar company listed in Hong Kong.

Osborne Clarke has advised TiGenix NV on its initial public offering in the United States of 2.3 million American Depositary Shares (ADSs), raising approximately $35.65 million. The completion of the U.S. IPO occurred on 20 December 2016 and the ADSs were listed on NASDAQ under the symbol “TIG”.

On 10 January 2017, Alpine Select Ltd, Zug, invited to an extraordinary shareholders' meeting which will take place on 7 February 2017. At this shareholders' meeting, the shareholders will, among other things, vote on a capital reduction through the cancellation of shares which have been repurchased under a share buy-back program at a fixed price.

The share buy-back program related to a maximum of 3,580,000 own shares, corresponding to around 25% of Alpine Select's share capital registered with the commercial register, and was settled with value date 30 December 2016.

Clifford Chance has advised Greenhill and HSBC as joint sponsors, and HSBC, Goodbody, Jefferies and Rabobank as underwriters, on Greencore's £439 million rights issue to fund part of the consideration for its US$747 million acquisition of Peacock Foods, the fast-growing US convenience food manufacturer.

The deal is set to accelerate Greencore, who supply a number of customer own-label ranges, as well as some of the UK's best loved brands such as Heinz and Bisto, towards its vision to become a fast-growing, international convenience food leader.

Tobii has carried out a rights issue with preferential rights for the shareholders. Through the rights issue, which was heavily oversubscribed, Tobii will receive proceeds amounting to approximately SEK 458 million before issue costs.

Tobii, the world leader within eye tracking, is listed at Nasdaq, Stockholm. The group has 700 employees and its head office in Stockholm.

Davis Polk is advising China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd. in connection with its placing of new H shares to COSCO SHIPPING Financial Holdings Co., Limited. Pursuant to the terms of the subscription agreement, China Cinda has conditionally agreed to issue new H shares to COSCO SHIPPING Financial Holdings Co., Limited for an aggregate consideration of approximately RMB5.49 billion (equivalent to approximately HK$6.15 billion).

Gernandt & Danielsson advises Baltic Horizon Fund in connection with the secondary listing of the fund units on the Nasdaq Stockholm. The fund is the first alternative investment fund (AIF) to be listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's new list for alternative investment funds (AIFM market). The Fund has a primary listing on the Nasdaq Tallinn and a total of 57,264,743 fund units are now listed on NASDAQ, Stockholm and NASDAQ Tallinn.

Simpson Thacher represented Apax Partners in connection with all aspects of the fundraising for Apax IX, a $9 billion private equity fund which will invest principally in the Tech and Telco, Services, Healthcare and Consumer sectors in Europe and North America.

The Simpson Thacher team advising Apax included Jason Glover, Seema Shah, Dan Lloyd and Amin Ebrahim (Funds); Michael Wolitzer, Jason Herman and Michael Ceulen (U.S. Securities); John Hart, Meredith Jones and Joseph Tootle (Tax); and Jeanne Annarumma (ERISA).