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Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s Acquisition of Wilson Therapeutics

April 20, 2018 Ambrogio Visconti

BofA Merrill Lynch is acting as Alexion’s lead financial advisor. Deutsche Bank is also serving as a financial advisor, and DNB Markets is acting as Nordic financial advisor and Settlement Agent. Advokatfirman Cederquist is acting as Alexion’s legal advisor as to Swedish law, and Ropes & Gray LLP is acting as legal advisor as to […]

Europe Legal Chronicle

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

April 20, 2018 Paolo Bossi

SimplyBiz, the business support company founded by the chairman of the Huddersfield Giants and life president of Huddersfield Town, has completed its £130m listing on the London Stock Exchange, raising £65m. The IPO raised £30m from an institutional placing of ordinary shares at 170p and £34.6m for selling shareholders. SimplyBiz is the UK’s leading provider […]

Asia & Pacific Legal Chronicle

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

April 20, 2018 Michael Patrini

Simpson Thacher is representing Ant Financial Services Group in its proposed acquisition of a 45% equity stake in Telenor Microfinance Bank Limited (“TMB”) for US$184.5 million. Currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Telenor ASA, a Norwegian-listed company which operates telecommunications and other businesses internationally, TMB offers the largest branchless banking service in Pakistan, in terms […]

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 […]

Genuine Parts’ Merger of S.P. Richards business with Essendant

Morgan Stanley’s €168 Million Senior Notes Offering

Tenneco’s Financing for the Acquisition of Federal-Mogul

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

Oerlikon’s acquisition of AC-Automation

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

RAILPOOL group’s Acquisition of northrail

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

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

Pattern Development’s $325.5 Million Sale of a 206 MW Portfolio of Japan Renewable Assets

Key Safety Systems’s acquisition of Takata Corporation global assets

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