Beijing & Hong Kong – Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised ICBC International in its investment into JD Logistics’ US$2.5 billion Series A financing. JD Logistics is the warehousing and shipping subsidiary of China’s second-largest ecommerce player JD.com. This marked the largest single financing in China's logistics industry so far.

Other investors included Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia China, China Merchants Group, Tencent, China Life, China Development Bank Capital FOF and China Structural Reform Fund.

Sidley advised First Quantum Minerals Ltd. on its issuance of US$850 million Senior Notes Due 2024 and US$1.0 billion Senior Notes Due 2026. The proceeds of the issuance will be used to repay the company’s revolving credit facility with a view to providing liquidity sufficient to fund the company’s share of remaining capital expenditures at the Cobre Panana project, to repay its term loan facility, for general corporate purposes and to pay fees associated with the offering.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised a bank syndicate led by BNP Paribas, HSBC, J. P. Morgan and UniCredit on the €275 million high yield bond issuance by Nordex, a wind turbine manufacturer.

The high yield bond has a maturity of five years and a 6.5% coupon rate. The proceeds from the placement will be used for the early repayment of existing liabilities. The bond is certified as a ‘Green Bond’ by the Climate Bonds Initiative.

White & Case LLP has advised Icade on its €600 million bond issue, with a maturity of ten years and an annual coupon of 1.625%.

Icade has simultaneously launched a tender offer on three outstanding bond issues, financed with the proceeds of the new bond issue. The bonds will be admitted to trading on the regulated market of Euronext Paris.

Mayer Brown announced that industry-leading capital markets and tax teams, including capital markets lawyers Anna T. Pinedo, James R. Tanenbaum and Jerry R. Marlatt and tax lawyers Thomas A. Humphreys and Remmelt A. Reigersman, have joined the firm in New York and Northern California. All previously practiced at another leading global law firm. Mr. Humphreys was the co-chair of that firm’s Federal Tax Practice Group and Tax Department.

TLT has appointed award-winning construction lawyer and renewable energy specialist Nick Pincott as a partner in its London office.

Nick joins the firm's UK construction, infrastructure and projects team and supports the firm's leading energy and renewables sector practice.  

Nick joins TLT from Norton Rose Fulbright where he was a partner in the energy projects group for more than a decade and specialised in renewable energy projects since the late 1990s.

Addleshaw Goddard continues to grow its Scottish and Data Protection offerings, hiring Burness Paull's Head of Privacy, Ross McKenzie.

An accredited data protection specialist, Ross, who joins the firm's Aberdeen office, has vast experience in IP, IT, privacy, commercial contracts and information law issues, predominantly in the oil, gas and technology sectors.

DLA Piper is pleased to announce the launch of its funds offering in Paris with the hire of Corporate partner Benjamin Aller, who joins from the asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson.

DLA Piper announced today that Ben Mulcahy has joined the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology practice as a partner in Los Angeles and Gina Reif Ilardi has joined the IPT practice as a partner in New York.

Mulcahy's practice focuses on representing major film studios, broadcast and cable television networks, prominent website operators, retailers and major consumer brands in all aspects of sports marketing, entertainment marketing and interactive marketing, as well as in virtual reality, gaming, eSports and innovative branded entertainment initiatives.

Clifford Chance has strengthened its Global Corporate practice with the hire of Thomas Voland, specialist in regulatory advice on complex German, European and international issues. This is the second Corporate partner hire specialising in Public Commercial Law announced by the firm in a matter of weeks.

Thomas Voland is currently a senior lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He will join the Clifford Chance partnership in May and will be based in the firm's Düsseldorf office.