International law firm Clifford Chance advised J.P. Morgan Securities plc acting in its capacity as provider of acquisition financing in relation to Vonovia SE’s tender offer to the shareholders of Swedish housing company Victoria Park AB.
Vonovia is the largest German housing company and would further extend its international expansion with the takeover.
DLA Piper has advised the Whelan family in relation to the acquisition of Wigan Athletic Football Club by International Entertainment Corporation. The transaction is subject to approval from the English Football League and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas, as Joint Global Coordinators, on the offering of €600 million Senior Notes by France-based leading global engineering services company Novafives.
The transaction was divided in two tranches – €325 million 5.00% Fixed Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2025, and €275 million Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2025.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that George Stamas, Mark Director, Andrew Herman, and Alexander Fine have joined the firm as partners. Stamas will work in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices, while Director, Herman and Fine will be based in the Washington, D.C. office and also will work regularly in the New York office. They all join from Kirkland & Ellis, continuing their corporate, mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices.
Henry Bermingham joined the firm last month as the firm’s ambitious lateral hires programme continues at pace.
A leading public sector lawyer has joined national law firm Weightmans as it continues to attract top level talent.
Henry Bermingham has joined the firm’s Birmingham office as Partner from BLM, where he was Head of the Local Government team.
We are pleased to announce that we have strengthened our insurance coverage capabilities and global insurance practice with the hire of Mark Dessi from US firm Skarzynski Black. He joins as a partner in our New York office where he is reunited with several former partners from Sedgwick who joined Kennedys CMK last autumn.
Garrigues has strengthened it’s the Latin American tax practice by bringing in Javier de la Vega as a partner at the Lima office. Garrigues’ tax team in Latin America comprises seven partners and over 40 professionals, working from offices in Bogotá, Mexico City, Lima, Santiago de Chile and São Paulo.
William Fry has acted for NAMA receiver, in the sale of Boland’s Quay, a c.400,000 square feet mixed use office retail and residential scheme situate at the iconic Boland’s Mill site in Dublin’s docklands, to global tech giant Google. The development is one of the largest and most significant urban regeneration projects being undertaken within Dublin city centre. This is one of the few NAMA funded projects. Since the development project at the site received planning permission in July 2015, NAMA has provided funding for demolition and enabling works.
Squire Patton Boggs has advised Raksha Energy Holdings Limited on its successful offer to acquire the issued ordinary share capital of AIM-listed Mytrah Energy Limited. The acquisition was implemented by means of a takeover offer governed by the UK Takeover Code and valued the entire issued share capital of Mytrah Energy Limited at approximately £78.9 million.
Ashurst has advised Downer EDI Limited (Downer) and Spotless Group Holdings Limited (Spotless) on the refinancing of their syndicated corporate debt facilities to the value of A$1.3 billion, which compromised A$400 million for Downer and $900 million for Spotless.
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