DWF has appointed corporate partner Babita Ambekar to its Singapore office as the business continues to strengthen its presence in Asia Pacific. Babita joins from Duane Morris & Selvam LLP where she headed its India and Japan practice groups.

DWF has appointed corporate partner Babita Ambekar to its Singapore office as the business continues to strengthen its presence in Asia Pacific. Babita joins from Duane Morris & Selvam LLP where she headed its India and Japan practice groups.  

London – Mayer Brown's Private Equity team has advised The Halifax Group and Management on the sale of Pirtek Europe, the leading on-site provider of hydraulic hose replacement and associated services across Europe, to PNC Riverarch Capital, a US-based private equity firm. Transaction terms were not disclosed.

Founded in 1988, Pirtek Europe has 185 service centres and 750 mobile units across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised BNP Paribas, Citigroup and MUFG as joint global coordinators and BNP Paribas, CIMB, Citigroup, Maybank, MUFG, SMBC Nikko and Standard Chartered Bank as joint bookrunners and joint lead managers on the US$4 billion bond issuance by Indonesian state-owned mining company PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium Persero (Inalum).

The deal is the largest-ever US dollar corporate security from a non-financial issuer in Indonesia and among the largest in Asia this year.

Macfarlanes has advised UK-based Apache Capital Partners (Apache Capital), a leading private real estate investment management firm, on the successful establishment of a new joint venture platform with investment from US investor Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, Apache Capital and other significant real estate investors, including National Farmers Union (NFU) Mutual Insurance Society Limited.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised AUCTUS Capital Partners AG (“AUCTUS”) on the financing of its acquisition of Robert Bürkle GmbH. The financing consisted of senior loans arranged by Oldenburgische Landesbank Aktiengesellschaft and Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien AG as well as a mezzanine facility and preferred equity provided by funds managed by Beechbrook Capital. The seller was Nimbus Investment.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Bank ABC and a syndicate of banks on a £250 million senior Islamic facility for the development of a London property known as Regent’s Crescent, in the largest Shariah-compliant financing in the UK for several years.

CMS has advised Inypsa Renovables on the sale of three photovoltaic plants.

We advised Inypsa Renovables on the sale of three photovoltaic plants to Eliantus, a company of the firm Eland Private Equity. This new deal reaffirms CMS as a leading firm in the energy market, in particular in the industry of solar power.

Our team was formed by: Abraham Nájera y Javier Leyva, partner CMS; Jacobo Otero, senior associate CMS; Carlos Tallón, Jorge Peño y Celso Méndez, associate CMS.

Baker McKenzie has advised AmRest Holdings SE on the framework of the acquisition of 15 restaurants operated under the KFC brand from KFC France SAS. The acquisition was accompanied by the conclusion of a franchise agreement for each of the 15 restaurants. The transaction is valued at approximately 33.3 million euros.

LONDON – Reed Smith has advised Telereal Trillium, one of the UK’s largest property companies, on the corporate sale of the Hayhill Portfolio to Elite UK Commercial Limited for £282.15 million.

The portfolio, legally and beneficially held by London Wall Outsourcing Holdings Limited, has a combined annual rent of £23.29m and comprises of 97 regional offices let to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on new, 10-year FRI leases, commencing on 1 April 2018.

The Romanian office of the regional law firm Wolf Theiss assisted Search Corporation, one of the leading engineering companies in Romania providing services of planning, design, consulting and management of road and air transport infrastructure, in the sale of its participation in Plaza Development SRL owning Crystal Tower, the first Romanian office building equipped with a heliport, located in the heart of Bucharest.