Baker McKenzie advised American Hospital Dubai on its joint venture agreement with Swedish in vitro fertilization (IVF) pioneer Livio AB. Under the agreement, the joint venture will establish an IVF center with a specialized laboratory as per Livio standards. The fertility treatment center will be operated inside the American Hospital with medical expertise supplied by […]
Baker McKenzie advised D.H. Deutsche Hospitality Ltd. on the sale of all shares in Steigenberger Hotels AG to the Huazhu Group. Huazhu is a leading multi-brand hotel group with a strong presence in China and listed on Nasdaq (NASDAQ: HTHT). Steigenberger Hotels AG operates chain of hotels. The Company manages resorts and offers services to […]
Jones Day represented Crédit Immobilier de France Développement. Jones Day acted as legal adviser of Crédit Immobilier de France group in its first public securitization of residential loans through the French fonds commun de titrisation “Harmony French Home Loans FCT 2019-1” in connection with a portfolio of French residential loans of €710 million (US$792.8 million). […]
Jones Day represented the lead arrangers and underwriters. Jones Day represented a syndicate of financial entities in which Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Agentaria, S.A. (BBVA); Bankia, S.A.; and Banco de Sabadell, S.A., acted as mandated lead arrangers and underwriters. BBVA and Bankia as bookrunners and BBVA as facility agent, in connection with a €163 million (US$197.7 […]
Davis Polk advised Lazard & Co., Limited as joint financial adviser and sponsor and Numis Securities Limited as joint financial adviser and sole bookrunner to Bovis Homes Group PLC on its proposed acquisition of the housing businesses of Galliford Try plc and on the related placing of 13.4 million new ordinary shares in Bovis Homes […]
Baker McKenzie advised Daiwa Securities and DC Advisory on the deal. DC Advisory Holdings Limited and Daiwa Sustainable Investments Limited, subsidiaries of the Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities Group Inc., have acquired 50% of the share capital in Green Giraffe Advisory B.V. and Green Tower B.V. Green Giraffe is a specialist advisory firm focused on […]
Hengeler Mueller advised State Street on cross-border merger of State Street Bank Luxembourg with and into State Street Bank International. In the context of the further streamlining of its structure in Europe, State Street Group has completed a cross-border merger of State Street Bank Luxembourg S.C.A., Luxembourg, with and into State Street Bank International GmbH, […]
Greenberg Traurig LLP represented AstraZeneca AB on its agreement with Grünenthal to divest the European rights to Nexium for an upfront payment of USD700 million with further sales-related and milestone payments of up to USD90 million. Nexium (esomeprazole) is a proton pump inhibitor that decreases the amount of acid produced in the stomach. The law […]
Osborne Clarke has advised Nplus1 Singer Advisory LLP on the successful £3.8 million placing for AIM-quoted Frontier IP Group plc. The Placing, which is conditional on approval of Frontier’s shareholders at its annual general meeting on 4 December 2019, was announced on 6 November 2019. Frontier will use the fundraising to support the ongoing needs […]
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised LEG on the sale of a portfolio of 272 apartments and a commercial unit in the cities of Wuppertal, Bielefeld, Gelsenkirchen, and Lünen to Coreo. The total rental space is 19,800 square meters. The buyer is Coreo. The residential portfolio is almost fully rented out. The deal is Coreo’s first […]
Latham & Watkins has successfully represented the Eurona Group in the refinancing of its debt before the Spanish Commercial Court, which upheld the homologation of the Eurona Group’s restructuring. In December 2018, the Spanish Commercial Court homologated the restructuring of Eurona’s Group debt and the restructuring of the Group’s capital and corporate structure. The restructuring […]
Baker Mckenzie Amsterdam advised Koolen Industries on an international business consortium led by Dutch clean energy conglomerate Koolen Industries. They have made a multi-million-euro investment in Hardt Hyperloop, the company from Delft that created Europe’s first full-scale operational hyperloop test-facility for a high-speed zero emissions transportation system. Hardt was founded in 2017 by a group […]
