Herbert Smith Freehills has advised a syndicate of banks on the provision to Macquarie Group Limited of £2 billion (approximately $AUD3.53 billion) loan facilities, including two green loan tranches. The syndicate includes The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), ING Bank N.V., Sydney Branch (ING) and Bank of China Limited as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners, with HSBC and ING as green structuring advisers.

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised property development specialist DCP Limited on its multi-million pound refinancing for a site in Tower Hamlets, London.

The £26 million deal - with OakNorth Bank Plc - was turned around in just three weeks and represented DCP's first major finance deal.

The refinancing is part of a wider development scheme aimed at delivering around 100 affordable and private rental homes in Caroline Street.

    Linklaters advise the common lenders and EKF, Denmark’s Export Credit Agency, on the NT$18.7bn project financing
    Financing involved a consortium of eleven international and local Taiwanese banks providing 16 year project financing together with a guarantee provided by EKF.
    First project financing in the Taiwanese offshore wind industry and expected to provide the financing template for the large number of offshore wind projects slated for development over the next few years.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau on the US$ 31.7m financing of the Kosten onshore wind farm project located in Escalante in Argentina’s Chubut province. The financing is covered by an ECA guarantee from Germany’s Euler Hermes and is one of the first non-recourse project financing transactions in Argentina after the last change of government.

DLA Piper has advised the lenders in connection with the financing of the Rv. 3/Rv. 25 project in Norway, worth NOK2.6 billion, about EUR270 million.

Skanska, a leading development and construction company in the Nordics, has signed the project agreement and reached financial close with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) for the financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance of a new 25 kilometre national road, the Rv. 3/Rv. 25 between Løten and Elverum, in the county of Hedmark, Norway.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Proparco, the French development finance institution and Dutch development bank, FMO, in relation to the financing of a 37MW solar PV project in Westmoreland, Jamaica. When complete it will be the largest in Jamaica.

DLA Piper has advised Norddeutsche LandesbanK (NORD/LB) on the project financing for the construction and operation of a wind farm in the United Kingdom for German developer Energiekontor. The overall financing volume amounts to GBP 10.4 million.

The Withernwick II project will have four Senvion MM92 turbines with a total capacity of 8.2MW with commissioning planned for 2019. It is an extension to the original 18.45MW Withernwick I project which has been operational since 2013 and was also financed by NORD/LB.