Allen & Overy is advising Goldman Sachs International as the arranger providing the financing for Compagnie Financière Richemont SA (Richemont) as it launches an EUR2.6 billion voluntary public tender offer to acquire all ordinary shares of Yoox Net-A-Porter Group that it doesn’t already own.
A team led by capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL. M., Partner at the Cologne office of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised De Raj Group AG on its Vienna Stock Exchange listing. The Vienna Stock Exchange admitted the shares of De Raj Group AG to official trading on February 2, 2018 with the first trading day set for February 8, 2018.
Gilbert + Tobin have advised Beach Energy Limited (Beach Energy) on the successful completion and financial close of its $1.585 billion acquisition of Lattice Energy Limited (Lattice Energy) from Origin Energy Limited. Lattice Energy holds interests in conventional upstream oil and gas assets across Australia and New Zealand, including in the Otway, BassGas, Halladale Speculant and Black Watch, Kupe, Waitsia, Beharra Springs and Cooper Basin gas projects.
Completion and financial close of the transaction occurred on 31 January 2018.
Eyeonid Group AB (publ), listed on NGM Nordic MTF, providing proactive identity theft protection services on the Internet, has on 30 January 2018 entered into a financing agreement of up to SEK 100 million.
The transaction is made by issue of convertible notes with free detachable warrants to the investor, European Select Growth Opportunities Fund, and to existing shareholders. The financing will secure the company’s continued international expansion.
Davis Polk advised the representatives of the several underwriters, in an SEC-registered offering by Ensco plc of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of its 7.75% senior notes due 2026.
Davis Polk also advised the dealer managers in connection with Ensco’s concurrent cash tender offer for its outstanding 8.50% senior notes due 2019, 6.875% senior notes due 2020 and 4.70% senior notes due 2021. The tender offer was funded with the proceeds of the notes offering.
Bank of Gansu is the only provincial city commercial bank in Gansu province, a region that occupies a key position in Northwest China.
Latham & Watkins has advised Bank of Gansu Co., Ltd. (Bank of Gansu) on its approximate HK$6 billion initial public offering on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP, has advised Zioncom Holdings Limited on its listing on the Growth Enterprise Market of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, involving public offering and placing of its shares.
Zioncom is a manufacturer of networking products for home use and small scale commercial applications. It has established production facilities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Vietnam, with operating subsidiaries in the PRC, Vietnam, Taiwan and Hong Kong, serving more than 40 countries and regions globally.
Stephenson Harwood LLP, has advised Zioncom Holdings Limited on its listing on the Growth Enterprise Market of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, involving public offering and placing of its shares.
Zioncom is a manufacturer of networking products for home use and small scale commercial applications. It has established production facilities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Vietnam, with operating subsidiaries in the PRC, Vietnam, Taiwan and Hong Kong, serving more than 40 countries and regions globally.
Gilbert + Tobin have advised Beach Energy Limited (Beach Energy) on the successful completion and financial close of its $1.585 billion acquisition of Lattice Energy Limited (Lattice Energy) from Origin Energy Limited. Lattice Energy holds interests in conventional upstream oil and gas assets across Australia and New Zealand, including in the Otway, BassGas, Halladale Speculant and Black Watch, Kupe, Waitsia, Beharra Springs and Cooper Basin gas projects.
Completion and financial close of the transaction occurred on 31 January 2018.
Simpson Thacher represented Gates Industrial Corporation plc in connection with its initial public offering of 38,500,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $19 per share, which raised gross proceeds of $731.5 million. Gates’ ordinary shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “GTES” on January 25, 2018.