Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised Norddeutsche Landesbank (“Nord/LB”) on the project financing of Sweden’s second largest onshore wind farm, and one of Europe’s largest onshore wind clusters. The financing includes an envisaged ECA backing by Germany’s Euler Hermes.
Munich – High-Tech Gründerfonds, Milestone Venture Capital and the company’s founders have sold their shares in Protected Networks to SolarWinds. The Berlin-based start-up was established in 2009. Its 8MAN product offers cross-sector solutions for access rights management and enables companies to protect sensitive data against unauthorised access. 8MAN will now be integrated into the existing product portfolio of US firm SolarWinds for marketing worldwide.
King & Spalding represented the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on project finance facilities for the 2,500MW Gulf SRC Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Power Plant Project in Thailand that signed on 2 November 2018. JBIC and ADB were the largest lenders each lending $227 million out of an overall co-financing amount of approximately $1.299 billion.
HOUSTON – Global law firm Reed Smith has made a significant addition to its finance practice, appointing J. Eric Holland to partner in its Financial Industry Group in Houston. Eric joins from Bracewell, and will play a key role in the growth of Reed Smith’s lending and energy finance capabilities.
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Matthew Williams as a partner in the firm's London office, joining WBD's national banking and financial services team led by partner Julian Kinsey.
Matthew joins from City firm Ashurst. He specialises in advising on balance sheet transactions for banks and other financial institutions ranging from secondary debt trading and loan portfolio trades to complex structured transactions and capital relief trades.
DLA Piper has announced that Christine Walchuk has joined the firm's Corporate practice as a partner in Northern Virginia.
DWF has further strengthened its insurance division with the appointment of David Abbott as Head of London Markets.
David will join from Clyde & Co where he is global co-head of reinsurance and a senior partner in the specialty and energy teams.
International law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed Rosita Chu as a Partner to strengthen the firm's corporate team – specifically its equity capital market and M&A transactional service offerings in the Asia Pacific Region.
Rosita specialises in representing Chinese and local Hong Kong investment banks and corporates in equity capital market transactions and M&A services, as well as providing legal advice on securities regulations, ongoing regulatory compliance, corporate restructuring, and other general corporate and commercial matters.
TLT has appointed Fergal Maguire, leading dispute resolution lawyer and former director at Cleaver Fulton Rankin, as partner in NI.
The appointment follows the continued growth and expansion of TLT in NI this year, including the launch of the firm's employment and corporate offerings in NI with legal director Leeanne Armstrong, partner Andrew Jennings and associate Grant Edwards.
On 1 November 2018, Ms. Huang Ling, an legal expert with intensive experience in the areas of cross-border M&A, private equity and foreign direct investment transactions from a top tier Wall Street law firm, joined King & Wood Mallesons (“KWM”) as a partner.