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Tenneco’s $5.4 Billion Acquisition of Federal-Mogul
MIRA Infrastructure Global Solution Fund’s $1.04 Billion Fundraising
Coty Inc. $550 Million and €800 Million Senior Notes Offering and $9.25 Billion Senior Secured Credit Facilities
General Motors Financial Company, Inc. $2.5 Billion Senior Notes Offering
GSO Capital Solutions Fund III’s $7 Billion Fundrising

Europe Legal Chronicle

Cellectis S.A. $175 Million Follow-On Offering

April 20, 2018 Paolo Bossi

Davis Polk advised the representatives of the underwriters in connection with the $175 million public offering by Cellectis S.A. of 5,646,000 American Depositary Shares, each representing one ordinary share. Cellectis has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 846,900 ADSs. The ordinary shares are listed on the Euronext Growth Market of […]

Asia & Pacific Legal Chronicle

Lotte Shopping’s $285 million Bond

April 21, 2018 Michael Patrini

Paul Hastings advised BNP Paribas and Nomura as joint bookrunners on Lotte Shopping’s KRW303.6 billion (US$285 million) exchangeable bonds, exchangeable into shares of Lotte Himart, the largest consumer electronics retailer in Korea and a majority-owned subsidiary of Lotte Shopping. Lotte Shopping is one of South Korea’s biggest retailers and a market leader in both department […]

Latin America Legal Chronicle

Leprino Foods Company’s Acquisition of an additional 21% interest in Lactojara Indústria e Comércio de Laticínios S.A.

April 20, 2018 Ambrogio Visconti.

Demarest and Azevedo Sette advised on the deal Leprino Foods Company executed the acquisition of an additional 21% interest in Lactojara Indústria e Comércio de Laticínios S.A., que opera con la marca comercial Pic-Nic reaching the 70% interest in the company. Leprino Foods Company, Inc. produces and supplies mozzarella cheese and dairy ingredients. The company, […]

Middle East Legal Chronicle

$3 Billion Project Framework Agreement for Greenfield Refinery Project in Uganda

April 18, 2018 Michael Patrini.

Shearman & Sterling was appointed by managing investor Yaatra Ventures to represent the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC) in connection with the signing of an exclusive Project Framework Agreement for the development, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a greenfield refinery project in Hoima District, Uganda (the Refinery Project). AGRC is an American-led private sector […]

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?

When the rule is a third wheel

October 20, 2017

Many indicators show that Italian crisis seems to be behind us now. An increasing number of brands, in the retail field, are now carefully scrutinizing street storefronts (even in “secondary” cities); this is also the result of a general lackluster performance of shopping malls located in certain parts of the USA. Add to this the […]

Do shops located in malls dream of their own goodwill?

Italians launched a new tax regime to attract high-net-worth individuals and a fast track visa for investor

LIBOR – What did the Bank of England really know?

Germany steps up liability of institutional investors for cartel infringements of their portfolio companies

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

January 27, 2016

By combining their two teams, the merger will bring their lawyers headcount to 160 and gross a 44 Million euros in revenue. LPA CGR becomes one of the top 10 French practices in turnover and number of lawyers, and one of the few widely settled abroad. Main features: 160 lawyers including 40 partners – 7 […]

Statoil’s Acquisition of U.S. Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Assets from Cobalt

Coty Inc. $550 Million and €800 Million Senior Notes Offering and $9.25 Billion Senior Secured Credit Facilities

General Motors Financial Company, Inc. $2.5 Billion Senior Notes Offering

Arroyo Energy’s Acqusition of Parque Eólico El Nogal SpA and Parque Eólico El Maitén SpA

Banco Santander Río’s $248.287 Million Notes Offering

Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura’s $1.2 Billion Notes Offering

SimplyBiz’s £130m initial public offering and listing on the London Stock Exchange

Oerlikon’s acquisition of AC-Automation

Alyssum Group Ltd’s acquisition of the aviation services company RocketRoute Ltd

GuarantCo Ltd.’s $74 million re-guarantee facility to the guarantors of a number of financial institutions who provide loans to small and medium sized enterprises in Africa

Figeac Aéro’s €38 Million Financing of expansion in Morocco and Tunisia

Nigeria’s $3 Billion 144A Bond Offering

$3 Billion Project Framework Agreement for Greenfield Refinery Project in Uganda

Entek Elektrik Üretimi A.Ş.’s acquisition of Menzelet and Kılavuzlu hydroelectric power plants in Turkey

Saudi Arabia’s $16 billion syndicated loan cuts funding costs

Red Star’s HK$4.6 Billion Proposed Voluntary Offer to Repurchase H Shares

Lotte Shopping’s $285 million Bond

Ant Financial’s $184.5 million Strategic Partnership With Telenor Group in Pakistan

When the rule is a third wheel

Do shops located in malls dream of their own goodwill?

Italians launched a new tax regime to attract high-net-worth individuals and a fast track visa for investor

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?

When the rule is a third wheel

Do shops located in malls dream of their own goodwill?

Italians launched a new tax regime to attract high-net-worth individuals and a fast track visa for investor

LIBOR – What did the Bank of England really know?

Germany steps up liability of institutional investors for cartel infringements of their portfolio companies

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