Linklaters advised UniCredit AG, BNP Paribas, and HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG on the successful placement of more than 7.3 million shares by the wind turbine manufacturer Nordex SE.

In the context of an accelerated bookbuilding process, the securities were issued to institutional investors at a price of 10 euros per share. UniCredit, BNP Paribas, and HSBC Trinkaus acted as joint bookrunners of the transaction which has a volume of about 73 million euros.

Travers Smith led by corporate finance partner Anthony Foster has advised Arria NLG plc on its admission to AIM by way of introduction. Travers Smith have advised Arria NLG, over the past 18 months, on its investment in Data2Text Limited (a spin-out from the University of Aberdeen) and on several rounds of private pre-IPO fundraising culminating in the acquisition of the shares in Data2Text which it did not own, and its listing on AIM of both shares and warrants.

Allen & Overy LLP has advised Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG and JP Morgan Securities plc as underwriters in connection with a capital raising  by Grand City Properties SA.

The issue of 27,000,000 new no-par value bearer shares under exclusion of subscription rights of existing shareholders, the company's share capital by EUR 8,842,500.00 was increased by EUR 2,700,000 to EUR 11,542,500. The new shares were issued at an issue price of EUR 6.50. The total proceeds of approximately EUR 175.5 million will be used by the Company to finance various acquisitions.
 

Pinsent Masons has advised the Sponsor (Quam Capital Limited) and the Underwriters, on the HK$72 million (equivalent to approximately £5.7 million) placing of shares and listing of China Binary Sale Technology Limited (“China Binary”) on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

China Binary is principally engaged in providing online transaction services by (i) facilitating transactions between online game operators and online game users; and (ii) providing mobile top-up service to mobile subscribers.

Stephenson Harwood has advised  Kalibrate Technologies on its placing and admission to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, which occurred on 29 November 2013. Market capitalisation on admission was £26.2 million. Stephenson Harwood advised Kalibrate and N+1 Singer Advisory LLP acted as nominated advisor and sole broker to Kalibrate.

Simmons & Simmons is advising J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Oriel Securities as joint bookrunners on a £11.9m placing of shares in Picton Property Income Limited.

The Simmons & Simmons team comprises corporate partner Chris Horton and corporate associate Sarah Clarke, US securities associate Tara Waters, tax partner Nick Cronkshaw and tax associate Zoe Arnautov.

Burges Salmon has advised WH Ireland Limited and Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited in their capacity as joint brokers to the London and Midlands focused housebuilder Mar City Plc, an AIM quoted company, on its placing to raise approximately £35 million by way of a placing of 437,500,000 new ordinary shares at 8 pence per share. This is conditional on shareholder approval at a general meeting to be held on 16 December 2013 and its associated £30.8m acquisition of land.

Ashurst has acted for Medusa Mining (Medusa) in A$34 million two-tranche placement. Medusa is an Australian based gold producer focused solely on the Philippines and is listed on both ASX and LSE.

Ashurst has advised the real estate company DIC Asset AG on the takeover of the majority in the UNITE portfolio and a combined capital increase. The portfolio comprises 54 office and commercial properties with an aggregate portfolio market value of approximately €481 million. The acquisition of the portfolio was conducted via a capital increase against contribution in kind of approximately 6.2 million shares and accompanied by a rights issue of approximately 16.7 million new shares against cash contributions.

Allen & Overy LLP has advised Bankhaus Lampe KG and Commerzbank AG as underwriters in connection with the rights issue of DIC Asset AG (DIC Asset) .

DIC Asset has used the capital increase to take over 94 percent of the UNITE  property portfolio which includes 54 office and commercial properties, a portfolio with a market value of around 481 million euros . In addition, a rights issue over 16,652,932 shares with gross proceeds of approximately 100 million euros was undertaken. The proceeds will be used to optimize the portfolio financing and general corporate purposes.