Toronto—Dentons Canada is pleased to welcome Kevin Rooney, Alex Farcas and Ora Wexler as the newest additions to the Firm’s Corporate group.
Based in Toronto, Kevin, Alex and Ora bring significant securities and public M&A experience and will focus on public and private capital markets transactions and domestic and cross-border M&A.
DLA Piper has strengthened its Corporate and Finance offering with the appointment of Philip Lee as a partner in its Corporate practice, based in Singapore.
Mishcon de Reya has appointed Johanna Walsh as a Partner in its White Collar Crime & Investigations Group. She joins the firm on 4 February from Kingsley Napley where she was a Criminal Litigation Partner.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised Brookfield Infrastructure on its purchase of AT&T’s global data centre colocation operations in conjunction with King & Spalding LLP. The transaction, valued at $1.1 billion, includes 31 data centres across 5 continents.
The centres will be operated by a newly created and wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield, Evoque Data Center Solutions, which will now provide colocation services to more than 1,000 business customers, in partnership with AT&T’s wider enterprise offering.
Leading global law firm, Linklaters, has advised Marubeni Corporation on the sale of its 24.95% stake in the Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm in the UK.
Marubeni Corporation has sold its stake to JERA Power International B.V. Ørsted A/S retains a 50.1% stake, while the Development Bank of Japan retains a 24.95% stake. The sale follows Marubeni’s divestment of its stake in the Westermost Rough project in March 2018. This is JERA’s first power generation business acquisition in Europe.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised The RO on the disposal of West Park House in Southampton for £5.1 million.
The property has been sold to CIFCO Capital Limited (an investment company serving the Joint Capital Investment Strategy and Investment Fund of Babergh District Council and Mid Suffolk District Council). The money will provide The RO with capital for further acquisitions.
The RO was also advised by CBRE.
Allen & Overy advised the lenders on the financing of the 25-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) concession for the running and maintenance of Belgrade airport by VINCI Airports, the upgrade of its terminals and runways and the takeover of the concession’s operation.
The financial investors AFINUM Achte Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG and SHS V Medtech Investments GmbH & Co. KG have acquired evitria AG, a leading provider of custom antibodies.
evitria AG with its domicile in Schlieren, Switzerland, services a broad spectrum of pharmaceutical and biotech companies as well as research institutions worldwide with antibody-based molecules. Through the use of a unique production process evitria AG is able to minimize throughput times and to guarantee high concentration and quality levels.
Dentons has advised Orbis in connection with a tender offer issued by its majority shareholder AccorHotels to purchase all outstanding shares in its share capital. The transaction is one of the largest tender offers launched in 2018 for shares of a company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In accordance with the preliminary results of the offer, investors submitted subscriptions for shares constituting approximately 33.1% of the share capital of Orbis for a total consideration of EU337 million.
DLA Piper has advised Irish renewable energy investment firm NTR on its acquisition of a portfolio of just over 200MW of operational and pre-construction onshore wind projects in Sweden and Finland.
NTR acquired the portfolio projects, called Vindin, from a consortium of nine Swedish industrial companies through its NTR Renewable Energy Income Fund II. The total capital investment, including the build-out of the development cluster, is expected to be in excess of €180 million.