International law firm Bird & Bird has advised Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG as sole global bookrunner on a successful placing of new Ordinary Shares for XLMedia Plc, raising gross proceeds of £31.7 million. The placing was oversubscribed and was carried out by way of an accelerated bookbuild. The admission of the new Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM will take place on 22 January 2018.

XLMedia, a leading provider of digital performance marketing, will use the proceeds from the placing to fund future acquisition opportunities.

Ashurst advised Natixis Pfandbriefbank AG (Natixis) on financing the acquisition of landmark office building "Schicklerhaus" in Berlin-Mitte by Austrian SIGNA Group. The property was sold by Tristan Capital Partners. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price and financing volume.

CASABLANCA –Allen & Overy advised Travaux Généraux de Construction de Casablanca (TGCC) on a MAD 550 million (approximately EUR 50 million) equity investment in its share capital by MC II Concrete Ltd (MC II), an investment vehicle of Mediterrania Capital Investment Fund.

A team led by Dr. Pär Johansson from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advised German investment firm Odewald KMU II, which specializes in medium-sized businesses, on the acquisition of Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH from Nordwalde.
 
Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH specializes in installing and modernizing door drives for elevators and safety doors on or in machinery. Its managing majority shareholders reinvested their interests as part of the transaction and will continue to manage the group.
 

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised funds managed by VR Equitypartner GmbH, Granville and Baird Capital in relation to the debt financings aspects of the sale of their investments in ZARGES Group to WernerCo, a portfolio company of Triton Partners. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

ZARGES Group, headquartered in Weilheim, Bavaria, is an internationally operating, leading producer of access technology and logistics equipment made of aluminium, in particular for professional trade and industry sectors.

Fried Frank represented Sberbank in a successful challenge against an application made to the High Court by the International Bank of Azerbaijan (the “IBA”), pursuant to which the IBA sought an order for a permanent moratorium against creditor action in England and Wales. The application related to the voluntary restructuring of the IBA in Azerbaijan.
 

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the senior lenders to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE) on the financing of its acquisition from Engie and Mitsui of the 1,000MW brown coal-fired power plant Loy Yang B in Victoria, Australia.

Baker McKenzie has advised the global higher education giant, Laureate Education, on the sale of Université Internationale de Casablanca (UIC) to KMR Holding Pédagogique, a recognised higher education platform in French speaking Africa. Established in 2010, UIC is the first private university recognised by the Moroccan State.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised WernerCo, a Triton IV fund company, on its acquisition of ZARGES Group (ZARGES).

The seller is a consortium consisting of funds managed by Baird Capital and Granville, VR Equitypartner and the management team ZARGES. The acquisition enhances WernerCo's position as a market leader for industrial climbing products and storage and transport containers in Europe. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

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.