Linklaters has advised the Greenko Group, one of India’s leading renewable energy companies, on its acquisition of Orange Renewable Holding Pte Ltd from Singapore based AT Capital Group. The Orange Renewables group comprises approx. 750MW of operating solar and wind assets across India with another 250MW of near operational assets. The transaction represents one of the largest portfolio acquisitions of Indian renewable assets to date.

The Linklaters team was led by Corporate M&A partner Parthiv Rishi and assisted by associates Tom Gillespie and Robert Ferag.

Baker McKenzie advised Hyundai Capital Bank Europe GmbH as a borrower in relation to a € 200 million loan ('covered loan agreement') provided by ING Bank, a branch of ING-DiBa AG (as arranger, original lender, security agent and facility agent) with Intertrust Trustees GmbH acting as data trustee to guarantee data protection.

Baker McKenzie advised Hyundai Capital Bank Europe GmbH on all legal aspects of the loan.

Client name
ASML Holding N.V. (ASML)

Other parties involved
Institut des Radioelements

Nature of transaction

Linklaters is pleased to announce the election of Amit Singh as partner in its Asia capital markets practice. He is recognised as one of the most high-profile international lawyers operating across a broad cross-section of capital markets products in South and Southeast Asia, including India. He has acted on the substantial majority of Indian DCM transactions in recent years as well as some headline ECM deals. He is also active across Southeast Asia, including in key markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke is strengthening its international tax offering with the appointment of a new UK corporate tax Partner – Mathew Oliver – who joins the team today.

Previously head of the UK and International tax group at Bird & Bird, Mathew brings solid corporate tax expertise in M&A, venture capital and corporate structuring and he is well-versed at providing VAT advice on commercial matters both in the UK and internationally. Mathew also has strong digital business sector experience having advised tech-related clients for a number of years.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has expanded its practice in Spain with the arrival of a new partner, Juan Martínez Calvo, who will join the firm’s Madrid office on Monday 15 October 2018*.

With extensive experience in transactional work in the infrastructure and energy sector, Juan’s arrival highlights the firm’s commitment to focus on the needs of our clients in the infrastructure and energy sectors across the entire project lifecycle and especially for the investment funds that are leading investment in these industries.

(Hartford, CT and London, UK) – Akin Gump is pleased to announce the addition of a four-partner financial restructuring and global debt finance team. Thomas F. O’Connor, Renée M. Dailey, Christopher E. Lawrence and Chester L. (“Chip”) Fisher all joined Akin Gump from Morgan Lewis. Mr. O’Connor will reside in Akin Gump’s London office, while Ms. Dailey and Messrs. Fisher and Lawrence will launch the firm’s new Hartford, Connecticut office.

Los Angeles - The Los Angeles office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Belynda S. Reck as a partner in its environment, land and natural resources practice. She joins K&L Gates from Reed Smith LLP.

Gilbert + Tobin is pleased to have advised the syndicate of banks on funding for Stage 1 of Pacific Hydro’s Haughton Solar Farm Project. The project is located in central Queensland’s Burdekin Shire, about 40km west of Ayr and 60km south of Townsville.

Herbert Smith Freehills has acted for Pacific Hydro on the A$115 million project financing for Haughton Solar Farm (Stage 1) in Queensland. The financiers to the project financing were the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corporation.