Davis Polk advised Notre Dame Intermédica Participações S.A. in connection with the initial public offering by Notre Dame Intermédica and by Bain Capital, the controlling shareholder of Notre Dame Intermédica, of 146,484,361 common shares of Notre Dame Intermédica for an aggregate amount of R$2.4 billion (approximately $691 million). The common shares trade on the São Paulo Stock Exchange. Common shares sold in the international offering were placed under Rule 144A and Regulation S.

LONDON – Dechert LLP advised CVC Credit Partners ("CVC") and EQT Credit ("EQT") in connection with GBP 218 million of senior and subordinated financing for Paymentsense.

This is the second round of financing provided to Paymentsense by the two lenders, following participation in the GBP 110 million unitranche facility provided in November 2016.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is advising Pamplona Capital Management on the sale of Partner in Pet Food (‘PPF’), a market-leading European pet food company headquartered in Hungary, to Cinven. The transaction was announced on April 26, 2018.

The Kirkland team, in London, was led by corporate partners David Higgins, Gavin Gordon and Andrej Wolf.

Kirkland & Ellis also advised Pamplona on its acquisition of PPF from Advent International in April 2015.

Sidley represented Cityhold Office Partnership (CHOP), through its asset manager, TH Real Estate, on its joint venture with EDGE Technologies, the office development subsidiary of OVG Real Estate. In connection with the joint venture transaction, Sidley also advised CHOP on the development, acquisition and leasing of the EDGE Olympic office building in Amsterdam (completed April 2018), and of EDGE Grand Central in Berlin (which is due to complete in Q4 2019). EDGE Technologies will retain a minority interest in both assets, and the assets will be managed by TH Real Estate.

Simpson Thacher represented Athenex Inc. (“Athenex”) in connection with its follow-on offering of 4,300,000 shares of common stock. The offering raised US$65.6 million of gross proceeds before exercise of the greenshoe. Deutsche Bank and RBC Capital Markets acted as joint bookrunning managers of the offering and as representatives for the underwriters of the offering.

Simpson Thacher represented GDS Holdings Limited (“GDS”) in connection with its follow-on offering of 12,650,000 American Depositary Shares (ADSs), comprising 8,225,000 ADSs offered and sold by GDS and 4,425,000 ADSs offered and sold by certain selling shareholder entities affiliated with SBCVC Holdings Limited (“SBCVC”), representing an aggregate of 101,200,000 Class A ordinary shares.

Simpson Thacher represented J.P. Morgan Securities plc, as sole global coordinator, joint bookrunner and joint lead manager, Merrill Lynch International, LLC Seoul Branch, Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited, UBS AG Hong Kong Branch, as joint bookrunners and joint lead managers and Hanwha Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., as joint lead manager, in connection with the offering of US$1 billion Subordinated Capital Securities by Hanwha Life Insurance Co., Ltd. The offering was conducted in reliance upon Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

A team led by the two Düsseldorf-based partners Dr. Peter Vocke and Dr. Michael Sörgel advised Lange Objektgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG and KILA I GmbH & Co. KG on the sale of an inner-city logistics park comprising about 26,000 square meters of usable space in Essen. The buyer is Schroder Real Estate Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH.
 

SAN FRANCISCO – Reed Smith has announced the latest addition to its growing San Francisco office:  Lewis Zirogiannis joins the firm as partner in the Global Regulatory Enforcement practice.

Dechert LLP is pleased to announce that F. Amanda DeBusk and Melissa Duffy have joined the firm as partners in the international trade and government regulation group. Ms. DeBusk will serve as chair of Dechert’s global international trade practice. Both partners join at a time when international trade and sanctions are an increasingly critical component of global business strategy.