International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Gazeley, a GLP company and leading investor and developer of logistics warehouses and distribution parks, on its purchase of a six-acre plot of land in the heart of London to speculatively develop the UK’s first three-storey logistics facility to be called G Park London Docklands. The site, located in Silvertown, was acquired from joint venture partners Galliard Homes and Cain International.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised leading equity investor, Mobeus Equity Partners (Mobeus) on its £14 million investment into Geotech, a fast growing, pioneering specialist in ground stablisation services for construction and infrastructure projects.

The investment supports a high growth plan to roll out Geotech’s patented soil stabilisation system, which delivers cost savings and environmental benefits to infrastructure projects.

On 28 March 2018, Sasseur Real Estate Investment Trust (Sasseur REIT) listed on the main board of the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), offering 267 million trust units in public and selling 495 million trust units to cornerstone investors at SGD 0.80 per trust unit. Sasseur REIT raised a total of about SGD 1 billion (about RMB 4.9 billion) through equity and debt financing. It is the first IPO deal on the SGX Main Board in 2018.

Ropes & Gray has advised BigHand, a leading provider of productivity software to the legal market – and a portfolio company of Bridgepoint, the international private equity group – on its acquisition of DW Reporting, a legal business intelligence and matter pricing provider. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed.

The deal will enhance BigHand’s software product suite as well as accelerate growth opportunities in the North American market.

Mayer Brown JSM advised a consortium of joint lead managers on the first issuance of Eurobonds listed and traded on the regulated market of Frankfurt Stock Exchange and available for trading on the China Europe International Exchange by a PRC non-financial institution company.

The dual-tranche offering is Chengdu Xingcheng Investment Group Co., Ltd’s issuance of EUR 365 million 2.50% bonds due 2021 and EUR 135 million 2.95% bonds due 2023.

MinterEllison has advised Centerbridge in relation to a scheme to acquire shares in Billabong.

Boardriders, who proposed the scheme, and Centerbridge each own just under 20% of Billabong equity, and between them are the senior lenders to Billabong of approximately A$224m pursuant to a senior secured term loan.

On the date of the scheme meeting, Billabong and Boardriders amended the terms of the scheme implementation deed to increase the scheme consideration from $1.00 to $1.05 cash per share and the scheme meeting was not delayed.

Clifford Chance advised BNP Paribas, Société Générale, UniCredit Bank AG, Banco Santander S.A., Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., Belgium Branch, J.P. Morgan Securities plc and RBC Europe Limited on the issuance of EUR 8 billion of notes by Sanofi. The notes were admitted to trading on the Euronext Paris market on 21 March 2018.

The six series were drawn under Sanofi's Euro Medium Term Note Programme, and priced as follows:

• EUR 1 billion Floating Rate Notes due March 2020

Schulte is representing activist investor Voce Capital Management LLC in its nomination of two directors to the board of Natus Medical Inc., a leading manufacturer of medical devices and software. Voce Capital has invested in Natus multiple times over the past five years and has built a stake of over 2 percent since January 2018.

The Schulte team representing Voce Capital was led by partner and co-chair of the firm's global Shareholder Activism Group Marc Weingarten and shareholder activism partner Aneliya Crawford, and included associate Reuben Zaramian.

Across-border team of Pillsbury lawyers has advised SoftBank Group Corp. on a significant investment in Nemaska Lithium Inc., a Canadian lithium company. The private placement will provide Nemaska with gross proceeds of up to CAD $99 million in a transaction SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son described as “of monumental importance” to its strategy. The consummation of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange.

WARSAW - April 10, 2018 - BNP Paribas Group and Raiffeisen Bank International have reached an agreement for the acquisition of the core banking operations of Raiffeisen Bank Polska, to be combined with the subsidiary of BNP Paribas in Poland, Bank BGZ BNP Paribas.

The transaction will be implemented through a demerger of Raiffeisen Bank Polska by spin-off of its core business to Bank BGZ BNP Paribas. The core business excludes foreign currency retail mortgage loan portfolio and a limited amount of other assets.