International law firm Clifford Chance has advised specialty chemicals group LANXESS on the acquisition of IMD Natural Solutions GmbH.
LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals group with revenues of EUR 9.66 billion in 2017 and app. 19,200 employees in 25 countries. LANXESS develops, manufactures and distributes chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and plastics.
International law firm Clifford Chance has advised Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on the subscription of non-voting class shares in JX Metals Deutschland GmbH (JXMD), a wholly owned company of JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, with amounting up to EUR 85.6 million.
JXMD was established with the purpose of acquiring all shares in H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH, one of the world's leading suppliers of Tantalum and Niobium products (high-purity metal powders), which are widely used in the Japanese electronics industry.
Womble Bond Dickinson Bristol team has advised Bristol & Bath Regional Capital (BBRC) on its plans to create an inclusive housing scheme with the acquisition of 61 homes in the city.
The acquisition was part of a much bigger deal, described as a ‘turning point’ for UK housing, in which a housing association, a community investment company and a private investor have come together to create an inclusive housing scheme and introducing the UK’s first private sector rent-to-buy model.
Hogan Lovells has advised Banco do Brasil S.A., one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America, in its issuance of US$750 million of senior unsecured notes under its euro medium term note programme (EMTN). The transaction was priced on April 12th and settled on April 19th.
De Brauw has served as local counsel to China Ningbo International Cooperation Co. Ltd (CNIC) on its signed agreement to acquire a stake in Redexis Gas.
Client name
China Ningbo International Cooperation Co. Ltd (CNIC)
Other parties involved
Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Funds, Guoxin Guotong Fund LLP (GT Fund)
Nature of transaction
Gilbert + Tobin announced it has advised Goldman Sachs as arranger and underwriter of a senior term loan, and Westpac and CBA as super senior revolving credit facility lenders in relation to the Infigen Energy Group’s refinancing by way of a 5-year A$605 million syndicated facility agreement.
Warsaw, 19 April 2018 - Wolf Theiss has advised French media and publishing group Lagardere on the sale of its central European radio businesses, including Poland's second-largest radio station, Radio ZET. Wolf Theiss provided advisory services on all aspects of the transaction in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Matheson recently advised Saint-Gobain’s Performance Plastics Life Sciences business on its acquisition of MH Pharma Precision Manufacturing Limited, an Irish based supplier and manufacturer of single-use components and systems for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. The transaction, which was subject to clearance by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, completed on 13 April 2018.
Brian McCloskey, Corporate M&A Partner at Matheson said:
Effective April 1, 2018, Paribus group sold all shares in northrail technical service GmbH & Co. KG to a Railpool group company. At the same time, a long-term lease agreement on the target company‘s premises was concluded. Led by Partner Dr. Christoph Froning, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek provided comprehensive legal advice to Paribus group’s selling companies in concluding the purchase and lease agreements.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has advised Merck KGaA, a leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science and performance materials, on the sale of its global Consumer Health business to Procter & Gamble for approximately €3.4bn cash, or approximately $ 4.2 billion at current exchange rates.