We have advised longstanding client Piper, the UK's leading specialist investor in consumer brands, on its growth capital investment into beauty and wellbeing brand Neom Organics.
Clifford Chance advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on its € 38 million loan to Figeac Aéro, a fast-growing French aerospace supplier, for the expansion of its production facilities in Morocco and in Tunisia.
Figeac Aéro is a company listed on Euronext Paris and is positioned as a major player in the production of aerostructures and high precision metal parts for major aircraft manufacturers and their suppliers.
Hong Kong: Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised global private markets investment manager Partners Group on its exit from global apparel labeling and branding solutions provider Trimco International Holdings Limited (Trimco) to funds advised by Affinity Equity Partners for US$520 million. Clifford Chance also advised Partners Group on its initial acquisition of Trimco, and follow-on investments.
Hong Kong: Leading international law firm Clifford Chance advised global private markets investment manager Partners Group on its exit from global apparel labeling and branding solutions provider Trimco International Holdings Limited (Trimco) to funds advised by Affinity Equity Partners for US$520 million. Clifford Chance also advised Partners Group on its initial acquisition of Trimco, and follow-on investments.
Armour is the sixth reinsurance launch handled by the Firm's New York office under the leadership of Insurance and M&A partner Gary Boss, who continues to play a leading role in ushering in a new group of global competitors in the Insurance industry.
Dentons has advised long-standing client Vitol, the global energy and commodity trading group, on its participation in the recent US$534 million debt financing for Shoreline Natural Resources Limited (SNRL), the indigenous Nigerian oil producer which, together with the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, owns OML 30, a large onshore block in the western Niger Delta.
As well as refinancing existing indebtedness, the new credit facility will enable SNRL to increase production from OML 30 at a time when the oil market's recovery appears to be stabilising.
DLA Piper has advised Beijing Sanyuan Foods and Chinese conglomerate Fosun on the €625 million (US$733 million) acquisition of French margarine maker St Hubert, a leading manufacturer of healthy spreads in France and Italy. This acquisition between Fosun and Sanyuan, one of China's largest state-owned dairy groups represents an important and practical step towards China's mixed-ownership reform.
In 2017, YIT reorganized its four Russian JSC subsidiaries, implementing a new more transparent and effective corporate structure. Eversheds Sutherland assisted in all legal matters pertaining to registration from the preliminary stages, registration of share issues, planning and evaluating possible risks, to the final registrations.
Linklaters has advised UBM Development AG, a leading Austrian developer listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange, in relation to the EU54m sale of the "Pegaz" A-class office building in Wroclaw, Poland by its Polish wholly-owned subsidiary to Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH who acted on behalf of the real estate investment fund VEMEDSH Immobilien Invest.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has acted as transaction counsel in relation to the latest insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction sponsored by myLotto24, Hoplon III. This follows the firm acting as transaction counsel on the Hoplon I and Hoplon II transactions. The Hoplon deals use a traditional ILS cat bond like structure demonstrating how this type protection can be used to cover a diverse range of risks.