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North America Legal Chronicle

Newmont Goldcorp’s $700 Million Senior Notes Offering

September 20, 2019 Ambrogio Visconti

Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, in connection with the registered public offering by Newmont Goldcorp Corporation of $700 million aggregate principal amount of 2.8% Senior Notes due 2029. The Notes are guaranteed by Newmont USA Limited, a subsidiary of Newmont Goldcorp. Newmont Goldcorp […]

Europe Legal Chronicle

China Merchant Bank Financial Leasing’s US$93.47 Million Sale And Lease Back With Star Bulk Carriers Corp

September 20, 2019 Paolo Bossi

Watson Farley & Williams advised China Merchant Bank Financial Leasing on a US$93.47m sale and lease back transaction with NASDAQ-listed Star Bulk Carriers Corp. The proceeds of the transaction were used to finance the cash consideration in a share and cash transaction for the acquisition of eleven dry bulk vessels from Delphin Shipping LLC. Founded […]

Asia & Pacific Legal Chronicle

Greenko Solar Limited’s US$950 Million Green Bond Offering

September 20, 2019 Michael Patrini

Ashurst represented Barclays Bank PLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch, Emirates NBD Bank PJSC, Investec Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and Standard Chartered Bank as the joint bookrunners and lead managers, and J.P. Morgan Securities plc as lead green structuring agent in the offering […]

Latin America Legal Chronicle

BGH S.A.’s $48 Million Debts Restructuring

September 20, 2019 Ambrogio Visconti.

Martínez de Hoz & Rueda and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle advised on the deal BGH S.A. executed the restructuring of $48 million debts with a group of 12 banks and financial istitution including Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A.U., BBVA Banco Francés S.A., Banco Macro S.A., Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, […]

Africa Legal Chronicle

HeidelbergCement’s Sale Of A Minority Stake In Ciments Du Maroc

March 8, 2019 Andrea Canobbio

Clifford Chance advised HeidelbergCement, one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of building materials, in connection with the sale of a minority stake in the share capital of Ciments du Maroc. HeidelbergCement sold 7.8% of the share capital of Ciments du Maroc for an aggregate amount of approximately €140 million, as part of its action […]

Middle East Legal Chronicle

Baikal Mining Company’sConstruction Contract With Renaissance Heavy Industries

September 14, 2019 Michael Patrini.

A Clifford Chance cross-border team has advised Baikal Mining Company on a construction contract with Renaissance Heavy Industries to build the Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant. The value of the contract is approximately EUR380 million. Renaissance is to build an integrated plant that will include ore-dressing, leaching and crushing facilities as well as a conveyor […]

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?

Black Cube expose judicial and political corruption in Panama

September 19, 2019

Corruption in Panama is nothing new. The country’s notorious former leader, Manuel Noriega, was convicted by a US court in 1992 of racketeering, drug smuggling, and money laundering. After serving a long US prison sentence, in 2010, he was sentenced in France to a further seven years in prison for money laundering. According to Transparency […]

What’s your poison? Britain’s drug laws go to pot

Lock them up or set them free: Boris and British prisons

London law firms go sky high, but who pays?

The French Anti-Corruption Agency’s Enforcement Committee issues its first decision: First lessons learned…

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 […]