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Allergan’s €1.7 Billion Registered Fixed and Floating Rate Notes Offering
Cimarex’s $1.6 Billion Acquisition of Resolute
DowDuPont’s $12 Billion of Credit Facilities
Denbury’s $1.7 Billion Acquisition of Penn Virginia
Development and financing of the $1.7 billion integrated LNG-to-power project located in West Java Province, Indonesia.

North America Legal Chronicle

CPLP’s Spin Off Its Crude and Product Tanker Business and Merge It with DSS Holdings L.P.’s Business and Operations

December 15, 2018 Ambrogio Visconti

Fried Frank acted as counsel to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Capital Products Partners L.P. (CPLP) in connection with CPLP’s definitive transaction agreement with DSS Holdings L.P. (DSS). Under the terms of the US$1.65 billion transaction, CPLP will spin off its crude and product tanker business into a new publicly listed […]

Europe Legal Chronicle

Melchers GmbH & Co. KG’s Acquisition of JOY sportswear GmbH

December 14, 2018 Paolo Bossi

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Deutsche Raiffeisen-Warenzentrale GmbH (DRWZ) on the sale of sports and leisurewear manufacturer JOY sportswear GmbH. The buyer is Bremen-headquartered C. Melchers GmbH & Co. KG, which operates more than 50 subsidiaries in 23 countries. JOY sportswear GmbH, based in Ottensoos near Nuremberg, is a manufacturer of sports and leisure clothing […]

Asia & Pacific Legal Chronicle

Licious’ $25 Million Round Financing

December 14, 2018 Michael Patrini

Khaitan & Co advised Nichirei Corporation, in relation to in relation to Series D funding round in Delightful Gourmet Private Limited (Licious) involving primary issuance of Series D Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares. Existing investors 3one4 Capital, Bertelsmann India Investments, Vertex Ventures, UCLA Investment Company and Sistema Asia Fund participated in the round. The latest round […]

Latin America Legal Chronicle

BH Airport’s $130 Million Loan

December 14, 2018 Ambrogio Visconti.

Machado Meyer and Stocche Forbes advised on the transaction BH Airport (Concessionária do Aeroporto Internacional de Confins S.A.) secured a $130 Million Credit facility from Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social (Bndes). Concessionária do Aeroporto Internacional de Confins S.A.engages in the expansion, maintenance, and operation of the Tancredo Neves International Airport under a concession […]

Africa Legal Chronicle

Pangaea Investment Management’s $200 million metal purchase

November 24, 2018 Andrea Canobbio

Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa has advised Pangaea Investment Management, an associate of Chinese copper giant Jiangxi Copper, on a large and highly complex US$200 million platinum metal purchase transaction with the Lonmin group, the third largest global platinum producer. The funds were released to the Lonmin group from escrow in October 2018. The transaction […]

Record-breaking year for Tour de Law

October 28, 2015

This year’s Tour de Law cycle event has raised a record £100,000 for Breast Cancer Care. This total is 45% more than the previous record, set last year, of £68,720.68. Simmons & Simmons were announced as the champions in the annual Tour de Law legal cycling challenge for Breast Cancer Care, on Friday morning.

Private equity is still growing, although the euphoria of 2014 has died down somewhat

On the path of the bond market: is there a bear, a bull…or what else at the end of the road?

Is a cast of characters circling FBME Bank for commercial gain?

November 30, 2018

What does the self-proclaimed “first and only Judeo-Christian intelligence agency and protective intelligence service in the world” have to do with the United States government’s fight against money laundering? According to a recent article in the Asia Sentinel, quite a lot.

Just how much is a young lawyer worth?

Behind the headlines: what’s happening at Dechert?

Brexit: a personal view from 30,000 feet

The future of legal professional privilege

Turkey: land of opportunity

November 19, 2018

Recent events have not been good for Turkey. Following an impressive 7.4% growth in GDP last year, the country entered into a crisis in August when investors became concerned about structural imbalances in the economy: the Turkish lira reached a record low against the dollar, losing a quarter of its value in a fortnight and, […]

CPLP’s Spin Off Its Crude and Product Tanker Business and Merge It with DSS Holdings L.P.’s Business and Operations

E2open’s Acquisition of INTTRA

TripActions’ $154 million Fundraising

Manutara Ventures’ Investment in Barracks

Moody’s Corporation acquisition of a minority stake in ICR

BH Airport’s $130 Million Loan

Maxburg’s Acquisition of KGS Software

HALEX’s Acquisition of Forte Wärmebehandlung

Melchers GmbH & Co. KG’s Acquisition of JOY sportswear GmbH

Pangaea Investment Management’s $200 million metal purchase

JUMO’s $52 Million Funding Round

Cortec Mining Kenya Limited v. Republic of Kenya

DP World Posorja’s financing package of $377 million for the construction, operation and maintenance of the first phase of the Multipurpose Terminal of the Posorja Port

Sharqiyah Independent Water Project (“IWP”) in the Sultanate of Oman

Farabi Yanbu Petrochemicals Company’s SAR2.15bn riyals Islamic financing

Licious’ $25 Million Round Financing

Development and financing of the $1.7 billion integrated LNG-to-power project located in West Java Province, Indonesia.

Huzhou Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd. ‘s $72.67 Million Notes Offering

Is a cast of characters circling FBME Bank for commercial gain?

Just how much is a young lawyer worth?

Behind the headlines: what’s happening at Dechert?

Turkey: land of opportunity

Abramovich’s Swiss lawyer talks reputation management

Lefèvre Pelletier & associés (LPA) and CGR Legal announce their merger

Record-breaking year for Tour de Law

Private equity is still growing, although the euphoria of 2014 has died down somewhat

On the path of the bond market: is there a bear, a bull…or what else at the end of the road?

Record-breaking year for Tour de Law

Private equity is still growing, although the euphoria of 2014 has died down somewhat

On the path of the bond market: is there a bear, a bull…or what else at the end of the road?

Is a cast of characters circling FBME Bank for commercial gain?

Just how much is a young lawyer worth?

Behind the headlines: what’s happening at Dechert?

Brexit: a personal view from 30,000 feet

The future of legal professional privilege

Turkey: land of opportunity

Abramovich’s Swiss lawyer talks reputation management

Lefèvre Pelletier & associés (LPA) and CGR Legal announce their merger