Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW“) advised Werdenfelser Wasserkraft GmbH (“WW”) on a €20m+ financing provided by Bayern LB, for the construction of a 10 MW hydropower plant in the Valle d’Aosta region (Italy).
Munich-based WW specialises in the acquisition, construction operation and support of hydropower plants for the production of renewable energy in Germany and beyond.
Renewable energy financial advisor Green Giraffe was mandated by L2Fiber Rotterdam to raise equity for their open access optical fiber network in Rotterdam. In July 2018 Highland entered into an exclusive agreement to invest in L2Fiber Rotterdam. The company plans to bring optical fiber access to all 295,000 homes in Rotterdam over the next 5 years.
Transaction creates a new asset class to facilitate institutional investor access to infrastructure debt in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised independent sustainable energy producer Neoen on the development and A$198 million project financing of the Numurkah Solar Farm, a 128MW solar farm to be constructed north of Shepparton in Victoria, Australia.
The international law firm Clifford Chance has advised a consortium consisting of international and national private and public sector financial institutions lead by KfW IPEX-Bank on the refinancing for the construction and operation of the offshore wind park "Merkur" in the North Sea with a volume of about € 1.5 billion.
International law firm CMS has advised Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB), KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH (KfW) and Denmark’s Export Credit Agency (EKF) as creditors in relation to €270m of total funding for a 235 MW onshore wind farm at Länsterhöjden & Storflötten in the Ånge Municipality of Västernorrland, central Sweden.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Alpha Bank on the $30 million non-recourse financing of a greenfield onshore wind power project developed by Eoliki Energiaki Achladotopos S.A., a Greek subsidiary of Total Eren, in Evia, Greece.
The project will have a total installed capacity of 19.2 MW, consisting of six Siemens wind turbine generators, and is expected to come online by October 2018.
This is one of the very first projects that was financed under the new national support scheme for renewable electricity.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised independent sustainable energy producer Neoen on the development and A$198 million project financing of the Numurkah Solar Farm, a 128MW solar farm to be constructed north of Shepparton in Victoria, Australia.
Ashurst advised MEAG (acting for DKV Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG and ERGO Lebensversicherung AG), Talanx (acting for HDI Pensionskasse AG and neue leben Pensionskasse AG) and Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG (Berenberg) in connection with the first structured financing of rail vehicles by institutional investors.
HONG KONG - Allen & Overy has advised the joint global coordinators and joint lead managers on the issue of USD731m equivalent dual-currency multiple-tranche senior unsecured green bonds by ICBC (Asia) under its USD6bn MTN programme.
This was the first green bonds issued by a financial institution to have received the Pre-issuance Stage Certificate from the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA).