Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised Credit Agricole Asia Shipfinance Ltd. in respect of the structuring and financing of two Japanese operating leases (“JOLCOs”) with call options relating to two Hong Kong flagged oil tankers under a sale and leaseback transaction with a prominent Asian tanker owner.

The transaction was co-arranged by Springliner Ltd. and fully underwritten by Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and a group of Japanese investors.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) acted for Minsheng Financial Leasing (MSFL) on its acquisition of four aircraft from China Development Bank Financial Leasing and refinancing of the acquisition with Crédit Agricole CIB, as mandated lead arranger, facility agent and security trustee and Korea Development Bank, as arranger.

The portfolio acquisition, with leases attached to an Indian airline, was completed in January 2017 whereas the refinancing completed in May 2017.

Ashurst is acting for China Development Bank on an approximately US$4.5 billion financing for the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail Project. The loan agreement was signed at a ceremony witnessed by the Chinese and Indonesian Presidents during the recent "Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation" in Beijing.

The Singapore office of Watson Farley & Williams LLP (“WFW”) has advised Sunseap Asset (Cambodia) Co. Limited (“Sunseap”), a consortium set up by Sunseap International Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Sunseap Group Pte Ltd. (“Sunseap Group”), on loan facilities of up to US$9.2m in aggregate to finance the project and development costs of the 10 MW AC photovoltaic solar power plant to be located at Bavet City, Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia. The facilities were provided by Asian Development Bank (“ADB”) and co-financed by BRED Bank.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) on the project financing for the development, construction and operation of the A$100 million Collinsville Solar Farm. The project was financed through the CEFC’s large-scale solar program which committed more than $370 million in finance, and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) A$92 million large-scale solar round.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the lenders on an underwritten bank financing supporting the proposed $3.9bn sale of Engie's exploration and production business (EPI) to Neptune Energy, a company led by Sam Laidlaw and backed by global alternative asset managers The Carlyle Group (through Carlyle International Energy Partners) and CVC Capital Partners Fund VI and a group of co-investors.

Work has now started on SynTech Bioenergy, LLC’s innovative waste gasification commercial demonstration plant project. Based in the West Midlands, the plant will deliver a waste gasification system capable of high efficiencies and a potential future to deliver chemicals or fuels such as green aviation fuel.

Clifford Chance US LLP advised Mexican development bank Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos ("Banobras") and EKF Denmark's Export Credit Agency ("EKF") in the approximately USD 466 million refinancing of two wind farms to be constructed by Energía Eólica del Sur in the municipalities of Juchitan and El Espinal in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.

The Henan branch of China Development Bank (“CDB”), advised by King & Wood Mallesons, provided financing to a joint venture leasing company in Henan province (as the owner and lessor, the "borrower"), to help the company lease several aircraft to a Russian airlines (the “lessee”). On 28 April, 2017, the first three new Airbus A320-214 aircraft were successfully delivered respectively at the Airbus Blagnac Delivery Center, France and Hamburg Delivery Center, Germany.

Ventiga Capital Partners LLP (Ventiga) has agreed with the existing owners of Infare Solutions A/S (Infare) on a major investment in Infare, a provider of airfare data & analysis tools.

The investment from Ventiga provided the funding for Infare’s acquisition of the airline and airports data business of QL2 Software LLC (US) for Infare to become a global player.

Bruun & Hjejle acted as Danish legal counsel to Ventiga.