Continuing the firm’s ongoing buildout of its corporate offering in New York, Pillsbury announced today the addition of Michael Flynn as a partner. Flynn, whose practice focuses on corporate law, venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions, joins the firm from Norton Rose Fulbright.

Mike is a talented lawyer with a growing practice, and we’re pleased to have him join us, said Pillsbury Chair David Dekker. His arrival expands our corporate offering in New York and enhances our global emerging growth, venture and M&A capabilities.

King & Wood Mallesons’ Milan office has strengthened its offering as the go-to firm in Italy for clients investing in China, with the appointment of Stefania Lucchetti as partner and the promotion of Fausto Caruso to Counsel.

Leading dedicated private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltics engages in the biogas business

Eversheds Sutherland Bitans team provided legal assistance to Baltcap Infrastructure Fund in the investment of 9,45 million euros in Latvian biogas business.

The fund obtained 75% stake in a joint-venture holding company, and the holding subsequently purchased three biogas companies, which own biogas plants working with the total power of 4,9 MW and two agricultural companies, providing the biogas plants with the necessary raw material.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has assistedASEC Cement SAE, an affiliate of Qalaa Holdings (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Exchange), a leading energy and infrastructure company in Africa and the Middle East based in Cairo, Egypt) on the sale of its direct and indirect equity stake in ASEC Ciment SPA (an Algerian based company which is currently developing a cement plant in Algeria) to a private local investor.

The Africa team of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats advised the NSIA group, a major player in insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa (around 20 life and non-life subsidiaries in more than a dozen African countries) as well as in banking (two banking subsidiaries in Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea), on the takeover of Diamond Bank SA, the Beninese banking subsidiary of the Nigerian Diamond Bank Plc group and its three banks in Senegal, Togo and Côte d’Ivoire (with total assets of more than €600 million).

The energy group STEAG GmbH based in Essen has successfully refinanced the acquisition of two incineration plants through external funding. In early/mid-2017 STEAG Waste to Energy GmbH acquired Vattenfall's shares in the plants Thermische Abfallbehandlung Lauta GmbH & Co. oHG and IKW Rüdersdorf GmbH. Clifford Chance provided legal advice to the banks concluding the loan agreement, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale and KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH.

Waterland held the stake since 2009, contributing significantly to the company's success as a leading European river cruise operator.

Waterland announced the sale of its interest in the A-ROSA river cruise group to British private equity group Duke Street. Duke Street is acquiring all the shares in German-based A-ROSA, recognized as the industry leader for premium European river cruises.

The Firm represented Zhenro Properties Group Limited (“Zhenro Properties”) in connection with its initial public offering in Hong Kong and Regulation S offering of 1,000,000,000 shares (prior to the exercise of the overallotment option), which raised HK$3.99 billion (US$510.2 million) in gross proceeds. The ordinary shares of Zhenro Properties are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. CCB International acted as sole sponsor. CCB International and Guotai Junan International acted as joint coordinators.

Skadden advised Toshiba Corporation on the sale of its claims against Westinghouse Electric Company LLC to Nucleus Acquisition LLC (a consortium controlled by The Baupost Group, LLC) for $2.16 billion and the sale of its Westinghouse-related shares to Brookfield WEC Holdings LLC. Skadden also assisted Toshiba with the successful negotiation and execution of a key plan support agreement with Westinghouse, its statutory unsecured creditors committee and other parties.

The Firm recently represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as dealer managers, in connection with a cash tender offer by Gol Finance, a subsidiary of Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (“Gol”), the Brazilian airline, to purchase for cash up to US$50 million in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 9.25% Senior Notes due 2020. The tender offer expired on January 12, 2018. Approximately US$21.3 million in aggregate principal amount of notes was tendered.