Paul, Weiss client Arrow Global Group PLC, a data-driven debt purchase and receivables management company, raised €285,000,000 through the issuance of senior secured floating rate notes due 2026 and £100.0 million through the tap of its existing 5.125% senior secured notes due 2024. This offering represented the sixth time the company has accessed the capital markets since its formation in 2005. 

The team representing Arrow Global included Mark Bergman, with U.S. tax advice provided by David Mayo.

Orrick's Paris restructuring team advised DNCA, one of the largest shareholders and bondholders of CGG SA, a French-listed company, in its $2.7 billion restructuring.

We advised DNCA in connection with the debt restructuring and the set-up of the new governance of French geoscience company CGG, listed on Euronext Paris. This transaction has been one of the largest restructurings in Europe and France since Eurotunnel.

Shearman & Sterling advised Anglo American on its offering of $650 million 4.500% senior notes due 2028. The notes were issued by Anglo American Capital plc and guaranteed by Anglo American plc.

Anglo American, headquartered in the U.K., is one of the world's largest mining companies and is listed on both the London (FTSE 100 Index) and Johannesburg stock exchanges. Anglo American, a global leader in the production of platinum and diamonds, has significant interests in metallurgical and thermal coal, copper and iron ore and manganese metals.

The Team

Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office advised Phoenix-Capital LLC on the multi-tiered sale transaction of Victoria Gardens shopping centre, the largest shopping mall in Western Ukraine located in Lviv, to Dragon Capital.

Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv team was led by Managing Partner Serhiy Piontkovsky, with key input from Senior Associate Andrii Grebonkin and Associate Elmaz Abkhairova.

Hunton & Williams LLP today announced the opening of a Boston office with 14 lawyers from national litigation boutique Manion Gaynor & Manning LLP. The Boston office opening comes less than four weeks after the firm announced its partners’ vote to approve a combination with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP.

Arnold & Porter announced today that Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2009 to 2017, has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Fishman will lead Arnold & Porter's Crisis Management and Strategic Response team and his practice will include internal investigations, compliance counseling, white collar defense, complex civil litigation, and appellate advocacy. He will be resident in the New York office and Newark, New Jersey.

Mayer Brown JSM announced today that Hallam Chow has joined the firm’s Banking & Finance practice as our Head of Projects, China, to be based in Beijing.

Mr. Chow, formerly at White & Case, is a highly regarded lawyer who is known for his strong track record of achieving successful outcomes for lenders, equity investors and lessees, particularly those in China, Latin America and the Middle East, on major deals relating to project financing, acquisition financing, structured financing, aircraft leases, energy and infrastructure, and oil & gas joint ventures.

Continuing the growth of its Sacramento office, global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Tim Swickard as shareholder in its Environmental and Toxic Torts Litigation Practice and Will Wagner as associate in its Litigation and Government Law & Policy practices.

The Chicago office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Christopher (C.J.) Fahy as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice. Previously with K&L Gates from 2005-2011, Fahy rejoins the firm from Quarles & Brady LLP, where he served as chair of the IP litigation group.

Arrival of Tobias Larisch adds further “firepower” to the firm’s corporate practice in Germany and Europe.