International law firm Ashurst advised American Securities on the Belgian law aspects of its acquisition of Prince from Palladium Equity Partners.

Based in New York with an office in Shanghai, American Securities is a leading U.S. private equity firm that invests in market-leading North American companies with annual revenues generally ranging from $200 million to $2 billion and/or $50 million to $250 million of EBITDA.

Clifford Chance acts as international counsel for the Lenders under the project financing for the design, construction and operation of the Terminal Portuario General San Martín-Pisco located in Paracas, Perú.

Banco Santander and CAF were advised as Original Lender, Structuring Bank and Mandated Lead Arranger in the USD 183,022,793 long term loan financing for the construction of the General San Martin port terminal in Pisco (Perú). Leading investment and development bank, Cofide acted as participant having Santander as its fronting bank.

International law firm CMS has advised global private equity firm Cinven on its acquisition of Partner in Pet Food (‘PPF’), a leading European pet food manufacturer, from Pamplona Capital Management.

Headquartered in Hungary, PPF is a market-leading pet food manufacturer with nine manufacturing operations across Europe. PPF supplies pet food to more than 250 customers in Europe, including traditional retailers, discounters, speciality pet retailers and online specialists.

Dentons acted as legal counsel to DTEK Renewables B.V. on the implementation of a project for the construction of a solar power plant (SES) with an established capacity of 200 MW in Nikopol district (Dnipropetrovsk region). After its construction, the Nikopol SES will be the most powerful solar power station in Ukraine and will become one of the largest in Europe. The project cost is estimated at €230 million.

International legal business DWF has advised independent consulting firm Argon Consulting on its merger with Crimson & Co to form a new global group.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd (Datang Power) on its non-public issuance of A-Shares to its controlling shareholder, China Datang Corporation Limited (CDC), and its non-public issuance of H-Shares to a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC, for an aggregate consideration of approximately RMB13 billion (approximately US$2.1 billion).

This is the first completed non-public issuance of A-Shares and H-Shares involving a whitewash waiver in Hong Kong.

Orrick has advised Revolut on its $250 million Series C financing round, bringing its post-money valuation to more than $1.7 billion. The latest fintech company in Europe to achieve “unicorn” status (a valuation over $1 billion), Revolut is a London-based digital banking alternative that allows users to hold, exchange and transfer currencies without fees.

The investment round was led by DST Global, along with institutional and existing investors Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, GFC Global, Sprints Capital, Draper Esprit, Lakestar and Baring Vostok.

Ropes & Gray has advised Samsonite on its first ever European high yield offering, involving the issuance of €350 million 3.5% Senior Notes due 2026, alongside the syndication and allocation of US$2.143bn of new senior credit facilities.  The structuring of the financing and the related refinancing of the credit facilities provides Samsonite with the flexibility to access the European term loan market in the future.

Cleary Gottlieb is representing Fidessa group plc (Fidessa) in relation to the recommended all cash offer from ION Investment Group Limited (ION) to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Fidessa.

Davis Polk advised Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in connection with its reopening of its January 2018 senior debt takedown offering issued under its global medium-term notes program. The reopening consisted of $750 million aggregate principal amount of senior floating-rate notes due 2020 guaranteed by SMBC’s New York branch.

SMBC is one of world’s largest commercial banks by assets.