The Warsaw office of Hogan Lovells advised the Gdansk Shipyard Group sp. z o.o. on the sale of 81.05% of the shares in Stocznia Gdanska S.A. (the Gdansk Shipyard), and 50% of the shares in GSG Towers Sp. z o.o. to Agencja Rozwoju Przemyslu S.A. (the Industrial Development Agency).

As of July 19, 2018, Stocznia Gdanska S.A. (the Gdansk Shipyard) and GSG Towers Sp. z o.o. (a manufacturer of wind turbine towers) are now fully owned by companies from the Industrial Development Agency Group.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised The Republic of Angola on the third of its international bond issuances totalling US$5 billion.

The latest transaction entailed the issuance of US$500 million 30-year bonds to be consolidated and form a single series with Angola’s existing US$1.25 billion 30-year bonds issued in May 2018. The new bonds have been admitted to trading on the regulated market of the London Stock Exchange.

The joint lead managers were Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs International and ICBC.

Simpson Thacher recently represented the underwriters in the SEC-registered offering by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (“SMFG”) of $2 billion aggregate principal amount of its senior notes in three tranches due 2023 (floating rate), 2023 and 2028 (fixed rate). SMFG intends the senior notes to contribute to its total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) when TLAC requirements are introduced in Japan.

BLM, the UK’s commercial law and insurance risk specialist, has continued to grow its Commercial Advisory and Private Wealth team at pace with two senior appointments. Partner Jonathan Askin, an expert in non-contentious commercial law, joins alongside partner Daniel Jones, a specialist in family law for high net worth private clients.

International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced the appointment of Mukul Chawla QC to lead its UK corporate crime team in London, part of the firm’s Global Investigations practice. He joins BCLP on 8 October.

Mukul is a heavyweight fraud and white collar crime lawyer with three decades of experience both as a prosecutor and as defence counsel. He represents clients on a wide range of corporate crime matters including fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering, sanctions and export control, tax and antitrust offences.

International law firm CMS is delighted to announce that regulated funds specialist Laura Houët has joined the firm as a Partner in its Financial Services Regulatory team in London.

Mr. Kelly is a distinguished practitioner specializing in real estate development and hospitality, particularly within the Middle East, with experience in advising with respect to the full array of development, hospitality and transactional real estate matters. He represents developers and other clients in all aspects of real estate development and advises master developers, hotel operators, service providers and other players within the industry. Mr.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (formerly Hunton & Williams and Andrews Kurth Kenyon) is pleased to announce the expansion of its Dallas office and its highly ranked energy practice with the arrival of Myles F. Reynolds and Tab R. Urbantke, as partners on the firm’s energy and infrastructure team.

Reynolds and Urbantke were most recently at Vinson & Elkins in Dallas, where Reynolds was a partner and Urbantke was counsel. Both are former associates at Hunton & Williams, which combined with Andrews Kurth Kenyon in April.

We acted as Irish counsel for Generali on the sale of Generali Worldwide Insurance Company Limited and Generali Link Limited. 

Generali Worldwide is a Guernsey-based provider of life insurance-based wealth management solutions and contributed about €35m euros to Generali group’s operating result last year. Generali Link, based in Ireland, is a shared-service provider focused on fund and policy information.  The agreement will ultimately be worth around €409 million to Generali, with a further €10 million potentially payable on completion.

Gide, with a team comprising partners Laurent Godfroid, Stéphane Hautbourg, Benoit le Bret and counsel Ségolène Pelsy, advised Cofigeo on its acquisition of the ready-meals branch of the Agripole group (owner of the William Saurin assets).