Baker McKenzie advised the Aboriginal Carbon Fund on its establishment of Australia's first private carbon trading fund, the Reducing Carbon Building Communities Fund (RCBC Fund). The RCBC Fund connects corporations, businesses and institutions that are carbon neutral or are offsetting their climate impacts with Australian Carbon Credit Units that have certified environmental, social and cultural values.

Mayer Brown, with the support of Tauil & Chequer Advogados (T&C), in association with Mayer Brown, represented the underwriters led by Bradesco BBI, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, BB Investimentos and Nomura on a US$208 million offering of preferred shares by Banco Inter S.A., a digital bank and one of the leaders in the modernization of the Brazilian banking industry. The preferred shares are listed in Brazil on the São Paulo Stock Exchange and were offered in Brazil and sold offshore with the offshore offering done pursuant to Rule 144A/Regulation S.

Willkie represents IK Investment Partners in connection with its contemplated acquisition of a majority stake in a, a French leader in the frozen bakery industry.

On May 3, Willkie client IK Investment Partners announced that it had entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire, through its IK VIII Fund, a majority stake in Mademoisselle Desserts, a French leader in the frozen bakery industry, from its current shareholders, including Equistone Partners Europe, Céréa Partenaire, Azulis Capital and the management team.

Michael Cziesla, Norman Wasse, Volker Teigelkötter, Nina Siewert, Gregor Lamla, Christian Masch, Wolfgang Freiherr Raitz von Frentz, Tobias Riemenschneider, Isabelle Suzanne Müller, Thomas Gennert, Pierre-André Brandt and Martina Banasch advised a merchandise management provider on its acquisition of a majority stake in a leading ERP specialist based in Essen, Germany.

DLA Piper is advising Allianz Real Estate on the investment into a portfolio of student accommodation facilities in Australia through the new Scape Australia Joint Venture 2 Fund. The fund will invest up to AU$500 million, focusing on student accommodation facilities in Sydney and Melbourne, it may also invest in the Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide markets.

Allianz Real Estate is acting on behalf of several Allianz companies who will invest a combined 50% stake in the new Scape Australia Joint Venture 2 Fund.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Acciona on its successful bid to acquire one of Australia’s largest solar projects, the 265MW(AC) Aldoga solar farm in Gladstone, Queensland.

Acciona will develop, finance, construct and operate the solar farm through a 30-year lease with the Queensland State Government.

The substantial scale of this project will also contribute significantly to the Queensland Government’s target of achieving 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030, and will support up to 240 construction jobs and 10 ongoing jobs upon completion.

Davis Polk advised Charles Taylor plc on a placing of new shares representing approximately 9.75% of its current issued share capital which raised gross proceeds of approximately £17.6 million. The new shares will be admitted to the premium segment of the Official List and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. The placing was conducted as an accelerated bookbuild process.

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised the shareholders of the Circet group (CM-CIC Investissement, Omnes Capital and the management team led by Philippe Lamazou) in connection with the LBO of the group structured by Advent International alongside the management team and Omnes Capital as minority co-investors.

Paul Hasting LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised leading global private investment firm Starwood Capital Group on the sale (by a controlled affiliate) of a portfolio of 14 U.K. hotels that form part of The Principal Hotel Company to Foncière des Régions (through its subsidiary dedicated to hotel real estate, Foncière des Murs). Terms of the transaction, which is expected to be completed in June 2018, were not disclosed.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the bank syndicate including the European Investment Bank (EIB), AUXIFIP, Banca IMI (Intesa Sanpaolo Group), Caisse Regionale de Credit Agricole Alsace Vosges, CaixaBank, Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka and KBC Bank, as well as CA-CIB as agent, on the EU186 million financing for the Strasbourg western bypass motorway (A355) concession to be built and operated by ARCOS (Vinci Group).