Ashurst advised Macquarie Capital on the acquisition and financing of an 49.89 per cent interest in offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2 in the Baltic Sea. The shares were sold by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG ("EnBW") for €720 million. A corresponding purchase agreement for the acquisition of shares in the future joint company holding the wind farm as well as a shareholder's agreement have now been signed.

We have once again advised uro-oncology diagnostic company, UroSens Limited, in relation to its £2 million investment round from a syndicate of investors led by new investor Longwall Venture Partners and including existing fund investors Northstar Ventures and Esperante.

Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has advised Riviera Travel (Riviera) on a significant investment made into the company by private equity firm, Phoenix Equity Partners.

Based in Burton-upon-Trent, Riviera is the leading UK tour operator providing overseas escorted holidays and river cruises. Riviera was set up by owner Michael Wright 30 years ago and he and Claire, his wife, are its principal owners.

DB Schweiz Holding AG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, sold its 45% shareholding in BLS Cargo AG to BLS AG. The transaction was announced on 6 January 2015.

Lenz & Staehelin advised DB Schweiz Holding AG in this transaction. The team includes Partner Matthias Wolf (Corporate) and Associate Dominique Müller.

With a team led by the Frankfurt-based Partner Dr. Günther M. Bredow, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised the listed Leclanché S.A. from Switzerland with respect to the entry of the Danish investor Recharge ApS and a corresponding corporate financing in a total value of CHF 21 million.

Gleiss Lutz has advised US investment bank Goldman Sachs on the acquisition of a stake in the online eyewear retailer Mister Spex. Goldman Sachs participated as main investor in the latest financing round of Mister Spex completed early this year. Goldmann Sachs now holds 20 percent of shares, making it one of the company’s main shareholders. It is one of the largest venture capital funding rounds completed in Germany in the past twelve months.

SwanCap Investment Management S.A. (Lux) advised by SwanCap Partners GmbH Munich successfully closed its second private equity fund Swan Opportunities Fund II SCS – SIF (Swan II) at a volume of EUR 600m. Swan II represents both secondary and primary investment strategies, with the secondary component largely consisting of a highly diversified pool of existing private equity investments acquired from UniCredit and the primary component fresh capital for new investments.

Shoosmiths has advised Renal Services (UK) Limited, a provider of independent dialysis services to NHS patients, on its £3.1million investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGF) which was completed in November 2014.

The investment by BGF provides working capital for Renal Services to open and run new centres across the UK, including two new contracts to build and operate three centres in Northumberland and the East Midlands. BGF has in turn taken a minority stake in the company.

Clifford Chance is advising Carlyle Asia Partners IV, being Carlyle’s flagship Asia buyout fund, on its acquisition of an indirect 36.8% stake from General Electric, in Hong Kong listed satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (AsiaSat) for up to US$483 million.

Clifford Chance has advised China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited (CNCB) on the purchase of the entire 29.68% stake from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) of Citic International Financial Holdings Limited (CIFH) for HK$8.162 billion (US$1.05 billion). Upon completion of the sale, subject to obtaining regulatory approvals, CNCB will hold a 100% interest in CIFH and will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNCB.