Baker & McKenzie has advised Carnegie and ABG Collier in a deal worth SEK 510 Million ($61 million), to secure the IPO of Tobii.  Tobii is a global market leading provider of eye-tracking solutions and was listed on Nasdaq Stockholm on 24 April 2015, with a market cap value of SEK 2.1 billion.

A product with an integrated eye-tracking sensor knows what a user is looking at, making it possible to interact with computers and machines using your eyes. Tobii conducts its business through three business units:

Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, is advising Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited and Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, acting as joint placing agents, in relation to Wasion Group Holdings Limited's (Wasion Group) top-up placing of shares, which involves the placing of existing shares and top-up subscription of new shares (the Shares) for a total consideration of HK$734.4 million (approximately US$94 million).

Following the initial buyback by Dassault Aviation in September-November 2014 of a 9.41% block of shares (including 8% from Airbus Group) and the subsequent cancellation of part of the purchased shares representing 9.01% of its share capital, Dassault Aviation cooperated with Airbus Group in the framework of a private placement with institutional investors, of a 17.5% block of Dassault Aviation’s share capital, for an overall amount of EUR 1.64 billion. In this context, Dassault Aviation bought back 5% of its shares for an amount of EUR 451 million, i.e.

Deacons recently represented Haitong International Securities Company Limited as underwriter in relation to the HK$3,386 million open offer of shares by Hua Han Bio-Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited.

Hua Han Bio-Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited is an investment holding company. It manufactures and sells pharmaceutical, medicinal healthcare and biopharmaceutical products.

The team was led by partner Kelvan Cheung who was supported by associate Michelle Leung.

Dentons has advised Westhouse Securities and Beaufort Securities as joint brokers on a £20 million fundraising for Advanced Oncotherapy.

Advanced Oncotherapy develops next generation proton therapy systems for cancer treatment. Its fundraising will continue the development of its LIGHT (Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy) systems with the first unit expected to be installed in Harley Street, London, by the end of 2016. Patients are expected to begin treatment in 2017.

Ashurst has advised UBS AG, Australian Branch (UBS) as the underwriter in of an entitlement offer by Seven West Media (SWM) to raise up to A$612 million.

On 29 April, SWM announced it had entered into an agreement with Seven Group Holdings Limited (SGH) which, subject to shareholder approval, enables the early conversion of all of the Convertible Preference Shares (CPS) held by SGH into ordinary shares in SWM at a price of A$1.28 per share.

Slaughter and May advised BHP Billiton Finance Limited, as Issuer, and BHP Billiton Limited, as Guarantor, on BHP Billiton Finance Limited's issue of EUR 600 million 3-month EURIBOR + 0.35% floating rate notes due April 2020, EUR 650 million 0.75% notes due 28 October 2022 and EUR 750 million 1.50% notes due 29 April 2030 under its EUR 20 billion Guaranteed Euro Medium Term Note Programme. All three tranches of notes are guaranteed by BHP Billiton Limited and the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.

Mayer Brown JSM has advised UBS Securities Hong Kong Limited as the sole sponsor, UBS AG Hong Kong Branch, CMB International Capital Limited and CCB International Capital Limited as underwriters on the US$302 million global offering and listing of Shanghai Haohai Biological Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Haohai) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Commerzbank AG today placed approx. 114mio new shares with institutional investors by way of a so-called accelerated bookbuilding process. The placement price was fixed at EUR 12.10 per share. The gross issue proceeds amount to a total of EUR 1.4 billion.

Hengeler Mueller advised Commerzbank on the capital increase. The Hengeler Mueller team included partners Wolfgang Grob (Corporate/Capital Markets, Frankfurt)
and Hartwin Bungert (Corporate) as well as associate Mikolaj Pogorzelski (Corporate) (both Düsseldorf).

Travers Smith LLP has acted as English and US counsel to new investment trust Ranger Direct Lending Fund plc (the "Fund") in connection with its initial public offering.

Ranger Direct Lending Fund plc will invest in a diversified portfolio of debt obligations that have been originated or issued by direct lending platforms. In order to source debt instrument opportunities, the Fund has entered into a number of platform agreements with direct lending platforms.