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Dyal Capital Partners’ $9 Billion Fond Formation
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc’s $1 Billion Acquisition Of Park Place Dealerships
Texas Capital Bancshares’ $5.5 Billion Merger with Independent Bank Group
The Walt Disney Company’s $14 Billion Notes Exchange Offer
Republic Of Peru’s $2.98 Billion Offering of Bonds and Tender Offers

North America Legal Chronicle

Goeasy’s $550 Million Senior Notes Offering

December 14, 2019 Ambrogio Visconti

Cravath represented the initial purchasers, Wells Fargo Securities and BMO Capital Markets, in connection with the offering. goeasy Ltd. issued $550 million 144A/Reg. S senior notes offering. With a 5.375 percent interest rate due 2024, the notes will be used to pay down its existing credit facility and be used for an early redemption of […]

Europe Legal Chronicle

24Storage’s Initial Public Offering

December 13, 2019 Paolo Bossi

Baker McKenzie advised 24Storage in connection with the listing of the company’s shares on Nasdaq First North as well as the new share issue. In connection with the listing, 24Storage carried out a new share issue of approximately SEK 100 million (approx. US $10.54 million) 24Storage intends to use the net proceeds from the new […]

Asia & Pacific Legal Chronicle

Jasmine Broadband Internet Infrastructure Fund’s Rights Offering And Acquisition Of Infrastructure Assets

December 12, 2019 Michael Patrini

Allen & Overy has advised Jasmine Broadband Internet Infrastructure Fund on its rights offering of new investment units worth THB22,500,000,000 and on a THB18,160,000,000 loan facility from Bangkok Bank to acquire optical fibre cables of 700,000 core kilometres from TTT Broadband Public Company Limited. The fibres comprise of 15,643 routes, covering a distance of 57,580 […]

Africa Legal Chronicle

Impala Platinum Holdings Limited’s Acquisition of North American Palladium

October 11, 2019 Andrea Canobbio

Baker McKenzie advised Impala Platinum Holdings Limited on its acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of North American Palladium for total cash consideration of approximately C$1.0 billion (approx. €684.26 Million). The Transaction was implemented pursuant to a plan of arrangement in Canada according to an arrangement agreement entered into between NAP, […]

Middle East Legal Chronicle

DTEK Renewables Finance B.V.’s EUR 325 Million Green Bond Offering

December 12, 2019 Michael Patrini.

Linklaters advised Raiffeisen Bank International and Renaissance Capital on the issuance of EUR 325 million 8.5% senior notes due 2024 by DTEK Renewables Finance B.V., a finance subsidiary of DTEK Renewables B.V. This offering was the first ever green bond issued by a Ukraine-based corporate, and only a second green bond in the broader region. […]

Towards a tech-driven Cold War

June 18, 2019

There might, hypothetically, be a clear winner of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. AI systems and 5G technology are surely the revolution’s two key enablers, and the first mover – the first to successfully implement these systems on a large and sophisticated scale – will certainly gain a competitive advantage over others. This is not, however, […]

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?

The judgment of Prince Andrew

December 9, 2019

A child born into a royal family cannot be unborn from it, merely hidden away in the hope that people forget about him. That has been the sentiment expressed by leader writers across much of Britain’s print media in relation to Prince Andrew, the second son of the Queen and Prince Philip. By virtue […]

The greatest ever lawyer? It’s horses for courses

Medical Cannabis regulation slowly advances in Brazil

Launch of LAA’S website

Law firms: time to lock-up before the Brexit election

Daylight Bank Robbery

July 10, 2019

Imagine if you ran a small engineering company and decided to open an account with a bank which you used for several years in ordinary commercial business, only to find that its operations were then terminated. Not only that, but your account was frozen as the bank in question was accused by the US government […]