Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised Navantia S.A., M.E. (“Navantia”) on the delivery of a Spanish built SUEZMAX vessel – the “Monte Udala” – to a shipowner that is part of the Ibaizábal Group. Suezmax is the largest ship measurement capable of transiting the Suez Canal, generally referring to tankers.
Wolf Theiss has advised the Polish state-owned company Towarzystwo Finansowe "Silesia" sp. z o.o. on the acquisition of the majority stake in Fabryka Kotlow SEFAKO S.A., a leading Polish manufacturer of boilers for the power industry.
Skadden represented Daiwa House REIT Investment Corporation and its asset manager, Daiwa House Asset Management Co., Ltd., in the issuance of new investment units and secondary offering of investment units.
Skadden represented Toyota Industries Corporation in its $1 billion offering of senior unsecured notes in two tranches. The notes were listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
The Frankfurt, Munich and London offices of Weil advised financial investor Novalpina Capital in its voluntary takeover offer for Tallinn-based listed Olympic Entertainment Group AS in what is the largest transaction of this kind in the Baltic region to date. Odyssey Europe AS, a company owned by funds advised by Novalpina Capital, is making the voluntary takeover offer to acquire 100% of the shares in Olympic Entertainment Group at a price of €1.90 in cash per share.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Enel Américas S.A., a Chilean subsidiary of Enel S.p.A., on its up to US$1 billion revolving financing.
The facility has been granted by a group of lenders led by BNP Paribas as documentation agent, and Credit Agricole as administrative agent, and also including Citibank, JPMorgan and Sumitomo Mitsui.
Allen & Overy is pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Regnard-Weinrabe as a partner in its financial services regulatory practice in London.
Ben joins from Paul Hastings, where he has built a practice specialising in payment services regulation and fintech, building on his expertise in consumer finance and retail banking.
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm has added five preeminent entertainment partners from Loeb & Loeb to establish an Entertainment and Media practice at Paul Hastings and has opened a new office in Century City, the business hub of Los Angeles’ thriving entertainment and media industry. The team includes partners Mickey Mayerson, Susan Williams, Craig Emanuel, Stephen Saltzman and Erik Hyman, who will be joining the Century City office.
Reed Smith today announced that restructuring and insolvency attorney Aaron Javian has joined the firm as a partner in its Financial Industry Group (FIG) in New York. Aaron joins the firm from Linklaters.
Hadef & Partners has strengthened its Intellectual Property practice with the appointment of James Dunne as head of Trade Marks & Brand Protection.
Described as a “trade mark registration expert” in industry journals, James advises on all aspects of intellectual property, with a particular focus on trade marks and brand protection.