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.

Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has advised China Everbright Bank on its issue and private placement of 5.8 billion new H shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The placement was made to China Everbright Group Limited and Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises Company, and completed on 22 December after Chinese regulatory approval was received. It injects close to US$4 billion into the bank, a Hong Kong and Shanghai listed company and one of the largest commercial banks in China.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has acted for the sellers and management of Rockspring Property Holdings Limited (Rockspring) on their conditional sale of the Group to Patrizia Immobilien AG (Patrizia). The sale is subject to regulatory and antitrust approvals.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the shareholders of First Names Group (including the majority shareholder, AnaCap Financial Partners) on the sale of the group to the SGG Group. Completion of the deal is subject to regulatory approvals.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised UK mid-market investor, Tenzing Private Equity, on its investment in Converge-IT.Net Ltd (‘Converge TS’), the specialist provider of managed and hosted IT services to the UK legal sector.

Tenzing is an independent private equity firm, based in London that targets buyout investments in high growth businesses, valued between £10m and £75m, across the UK and Ireland. Founded in January 2015, the firm invests in niche market leaders and challenger businesses across a broad range of industry sectors.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Brittany Ferries on the €178m financing of the ferry “Honfleur” agreed with a consortium of banks including Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking as main arranger.

Watson Farley & Williams’ Paris office has advised specialist investment manager AMP Capital in relation to the subscription of green bonds for a total amount of €245m in order to finance a global 1.6 GW renewable energy portfolio developed by French renewable energy provider Neoen.

The international law firm BEITEN BURKHARDT has advised the dormakaba Group on issuing two bonds in a total volume of CHF 680 million as double tranches on the Swiss capital market with regard to all German law aspects in relation to the collateralisation by a German group company. dormakaba Finance AG is the issuer of the bond, the first tranche of which has a maturity of four years, a 0.375 per cent coupon and an issuing price of 100.298 percent, and the second tranche being issued with a maturity of eight years, a coupon of 1.00 percent and an issuing price of 100.46 percent.

The real estate team at Gide Warsaw law firm advised Yareal Polska on the purchase of post-industrial real property with a total area of 5.3 ha located on the area of SOHO Factory in the district of Praga-Poludnie in Warsaw.

There are plans to build a residential complex with a usable area of ca. 70 thousand square metres on the purchased real property, located between ul. Minska and ul. Zupnicza. The investment will retain the post-industrial look of the location, adding modern architectural and urban solutions.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the lenders for the construction, operation and maintenance of the new police headquarters Southeast Hesse in the city of Offenbach.

The headquarters will have capacity for 800 policemen and women and is structured as a public-private partnership (PPP). The state of Hesse and a project company held by Goldbeck Public Partner GmbH and Amber Infrastructure GmbH signed the contracts on 7 December.