Paul Hastings represented Ping An, a leading personal financial services group in China, in raising a Chinese RMB fund and forming two joint ventures with Pacific Eagle (US) Real Estate Fund, L.P. for the development of two U.S. residential real estate projects in San Francisco and Malibu, California.  Pacific Eagle (US) Real Estate Fund, L.P., Ping An’s joint venture partner, is a private equity fund co-sponsored by Great Eagle Holdings Limited, a leading Hong Kong property company with a long-term track-record in the U.S.

Debevoise & Plimpton is advising Hony Capital in its investment in WeWork Companies. The deal values the company at approximately $16 billion, and constitutes the company’s sixth funding round.

The transaction reached initial close on March 8, 2016 with Hony Capital as the lead investor in the approximately $430 million round of financing.

Vinge assists Vostok Emerging Finance Ltd (“VEF”) in connection with its investment in Finanzero, an online marketplace for brokerage of consumer loans in Brazil.

VEF is an investment company with the goal of investing in early stage modern financial services companies across emerging and frontier markets. VEF is listed on Nasdaq First North.

Vinge’s team primarily consisted of Jesper Schönbeck and Sofie Bjärtun, with assistance from Tomas Forsgren and Malin Malm on IPR matters.

Roschier represented KONGSBERG, a Norwegian listed technology corporation, in its EUR 272 million acquisition of 49.9% of the shares in Patria Oyj from the State of Finland.

Patria is Finland’s leading defence supplier and owns 50 % of the shares in the Norwegian company Nammo. The partnership will be a leading defence supplier in the Nordics and a considerable supplier on the European defence market.

Advised CBRE Global Investment Partners, part of one of the world’s premier, full-service commercial real estate services and investment companies, on setting up a Dutch fund targeting European co-investment and joint venture strategies, having raised a total of  USD 840 million of equity sourced from six investors.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Oscar van Angeren , Harm-Paul Plas , Daan Horsthuis , Wouter Ekkelkamp , Helena Sprenger , Jeroen Vossenberg , Sylvia Dikmans , Michal Lorenc , Gerard van der Linden , Mattijs Bosch , Aline Kiers

Dentons has advised leading specialized infrastructure fund manager MENA Infrastructure on the sale of interests in United Power Company SAOG (UPC) to Khaled Juffali Energy and Utilities, a Saudi Arabian power company.

Linklaters has advised Rosneft (acting by the wholly owned subsidiary RN-Razvedka i Dobycha) as it signed a binding agreement to sell 29.9% participatory share in its Taas-Yuryakh Neftegasodobycha subsidiary to a consortium of three Indian companies: Oil India, Indian Oil and Bharat Petroresources.

Taas-Yuryakh Neftegasodobycha operates one of the largest oil and gasfields in eastern Siberia.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised Hony Capital on the sale of its 11.7% share in Santos to ENN Ecological Holdings for US$750million.

The acquisition – which is subject to ENN shareholder approval – will result in ENN being the largest shareholder in the Australian energy company.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Silk Road Fund on the acquisition of an approximate 9.9% stake in Russia's key new liquefied natural gas (LNG) project based in South Tambeyskoye gas field from Novatek, Russia's largest independent natural gas producer, for EUR1,087 million.

The Yamal LNG project involves the exploration and exploitation of the South Tambeyskoye field in the Yamal peninsula in northwest Siberia, the construction and operation of an LNG liquefaction plant, and a port to transport gas to the market.

Ashurst has advised Nick Scali Limited (NSL) on the sale by Scali Consolidated of part of its shareholding in NSL. At a sale price of $3.80 per share, the sale will raise gross proceeds of approximately A$70 million.