Advising Vobile Group Limited on its initial public offering and listing on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
The firm has advised Vobile Group Limited (Stock code: 3738) on its initial public offering and listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Simmons & Simmons acted as issuer's Hong Kong counsel to Vobile Group Limited. Silicon Valley-based Vobile Group is the leading provider of online video content protection services.
Fried Frank acted as counsel to Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), a global business-to-business information company, on its acquisition of Clavis Insight for an initial cash consideration of US$119 million paid in December 2017 plus future earnout payments payable over three years. The total consideration is capped at US$219 million and a portion of the earnout is subject to the founders remaining employed by the company.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW“) advised PNE WIND AG (“PNE“) on the sale of its remaining 20% stake in a 142 MW wind farm portfolio to Allianz Renewable Energy Fund II (“AREF II”), an investment fund managed by Allianz Global Investors GmbH, for €23m. PNE remains responsible for the technical, commercial and operational management of the wind farms in the portfolio.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) as its international and PRC counsel on its EUR500 million seven-year euro-denominated green bonds and USD900 million US dollar-denominated debt with multi-period in the Irish and Hong Kong Stock Exchange respectively (the “Bonds”). The bonds are issued by CGNPC International Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary company of CGN and unconditionally guaranteed by CGN. The complex multi-currency transaction with several periods in two regions, is rarely seen in the market.
Cleary Gottlieb is advising DCC Germany Holding GmbH, part of the DCC Group, in its acquisition of TEGA - Technische Gase und Gasetechnik GmbH from Linde.
TEGA’s business focuses on the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and refrigerant gases.
Real estate OPCI and SCPI investment funds managed by Amundi Immobilier and Primonial Real Estate Investment Management set up a joint venture for the off-plan acquisition of the "Tour Hekla" project, developed jointly by groups Hines and AG Real.
Hekla will be a new iconic 48-floor and 76,000 m²-tower, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. Works will begin in 2018 in the heart of Paris-La Défense, Paris' business district.
Bird & Bird's Corporate team in Helsinki, led by partner Maria Carlsson and assisted by associates Iina-Mari Supperi and Laura Kallinen, has advised the sellers of Visual Components on the sale of the company to German-Chinese robotics giant, KUKA. Corum Group acted as financial advisors to the sellers in close cooperation with the Bird & Bird team.
International law firm Clifford Chance has advised specialist Lloyd’s (re)insurer Neon on its successful application to undertake an insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction in the UK, the first of its kind under the UK's new ILS framework.
The permission will see Neon establish a new form of insurance special purpose vehicle, a protected cell company that will be used to transfer a proportion of the risks to be written in 2018 by Neon's Lloyd's syndicate 2468 to a group of institutional investors.
Dentons represented Indykpol S.A. in the sale of its chicken abattoir in Lublin and chicken hatchery in Turka to SuperDrob. The transaction value was close to EU45 million.
The Fieldfisher Energy – Oil and Gas team has recently acted as English legal advisers for client JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production ("KMG EP") in respect of US$1.95 billion tender offer launched by the company on 8 December 2017 for its GDRs and shares, valued at US$5.6bn. The team also advised on its proposed delisting from the Official List of the London Stock Exchange and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.