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Client Work! 📢 Our team has advised the Cypriot defence company THEON INTERNATIONAL on the acquisition of a 60% controlling stake in Harder Digital group, a specialised manufacturer of Image Intensifier Tubes mainly operative in Germany. Clifford Chance also provided legal advice to THEON on the listing of its shares on the Euronext Amsterdam. ➡ Find out more: https://okt.to/QuE4kB The team: Christian Vogel, @Max Alles, LL.M. (Columbia), MBA (Cambridge), Max Petzelberger, Cord Freiherr von Mandelsloh, Dimitri Slobodenjuk and Arne Gayk #MergersAndAcquisitions #MandA

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📢 We have advised pan-European Private Equity investor Egeria on the divestiture of ISOPLUS Group to Viessmann Generations Group. Headquartered in Rosenheim, Germany, ISOPLUS is a leading European provider of pre-insulated piping systems, mainly for district heating and district cooling applications. ISOPLUS has been a portfolio company of Egeria since 2022 and Clifford Chance also advised Egeria on its acquisition at the time being. ➡ Read more: https://okt.to/35hZdw The team: Dr. Nicole Englisch, Dr. Max Alles, LL.M. (Columbia), MBA (Cambridge), Max Petzelberger, Dimitri Slobodenjuk, Arne Gayk, Dr. Simon Reitz, Dr. Philip Rosak, Gilles Lebreton, Florence Aubonnet, Olaf Mertgen, Christian Klein, Holger Lutz, Dr. Tobias Born as well as David Pasewaldt #PrivateEquity #VentureCapital #DistrictHeating

We have advised on SF Holding's approximately US$750 million #IPO and H-share #listing, one of the largest in #HongKong this year. Shenzhen-listed SF Holding is the largest integrated #logistics service provider in China and Asia, and the fourth player globally. Congratulations to our deal team! Tianning Xiang, Liu Fang, Claire Cao, Erxin Lu, Yudan (Ada) Zheng, Yuer Shao, Yuqing Liu, Shi Ke (石可) and Changle Xu. #Equity #CapitalMarkets https://okt.to/Vk78qn

📣 We have advised Sev.en Global Investments on the acquisition of the UK and Norway businesess of CELSA GROUP. Sev.en Global Investments is a Czech-based investment group that invests globally in a variety of sectors, with a focus on power generation and mining of natural resources. Celsa Steel UK, recognized as the largest steel recycling company in the UK, operates a facility in Cardiff with an annual production capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of low-carbon construction steel. Celsa Nordic, standing as a premier steel producer in the Nordic region, boasts a fully integrated production chain that encompasses scrap metal collection, processing, and manufacturing of finished steel products tailored for the construction sector. The Clifford Chance team that advised on the transaction was led by Javier Amantegui, together with senior associate Pablo Hernández. Zayed Al Jamil, Claudia Hall, Steven Fox, Mitchell Paul, Kristen Hammond, Rebecca Trapp, Katie Kempthorne, Ana Latorre, Chandralekha Ghosh, Antonia Halliwell and David Koláček were also involved in the project. Congratulations to the whole team! Read more: https://okt.to/vQG9K6 #MergersAndAquisition

Team Structure - "Every groundbreaking deal has its own unique story. At Clifford Chance, ours is about bringing a unique set of individuals from across the globe and amplifying their strengths - from partners to associates to business professional teams. But how do we collaborate across borders to deliver exceptional results? What roles do people play? In 'The Story of a Deal', we provide further insight into how our teams are structured. 🔗 Visit this link to learn more about our career opportunities: https://lnkd.in/gZHgbUQD and watch the full story #GlobalTeam #StoryOfADeal #Collaboration #TeamWork #CliffordChanceCareers

📣 We have advised the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the issuance of a fixed-rate 100 million euro-denominated digital bond. The five-year bond will bear interest at a rate of 2.545% per annum and was issued and recorded using private blockchain-based technology via Goldman Sachs' tokenisation platform (GS DAP™).   Similar to the EIB transaction on the HSBC Orion platform earlier this week, settlement was once again facilitated during the primary issuance process by a private permissioned blockchain platform developed and operated by the French Central Bank called DL3S, as part of the Eurosystem's exploratory work to test distributed ledger technology for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money. 🌍 The European Clifford Chance team advising the EIB comprised Steve Jacoby, Alexander Tollast, Boika Deleva, and Federica Gamen. Read more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dDcaU_2G

✈️ We're pleased to have acted for Airborne Capital as lead transaction counsel on its entry into an innovative capital and business alliance in the aircraft leasing sector with Daiwa Securities Capital Markets and its consolidated subsidiary Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.    Daiwa Securities Group and Airborne Capital have established this alliance with the aim of enhancing their ability to provide solutions that meet the needs of high-net-worth individuals and other clients in the wealth management business by leveraging the strengths and resources of both companies. Partner Ranbir Hunjan and senior associate Lara Attarzadeh advised Airborne on the transaction.   📰Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eWik5Ntu   #AviationFinance #AssetManagement 

🌍We advised Standard Chartered on an innovative debt conversion transaction for the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dqFhiN5Q   The transaction, which involved The Nature Conservancy, Inter-American Development Bank, Builders Vision and AXA, is expected to generate an estimated US$124 million in savings, which will be earmarked for marine conservation funding in The Bahamas over the next 15 years.    Deborah Zandstra led the transaction and was assisted by a core team of Jonathan Zonis, Azam Taiyeb, Andrés Berry, Lucia Ferrer, Domenico Cullura, Alexandra Machado, Adele Irwin Block, David Rondon, Hannah M. and Kaneeka Kapur.   #SustainableFinance #DebtForNature #ESG #Conservation #SovereignDebt #TNC

📢 We advised on the the largest ever B-bond and mobilization amount by IDB Invest and one of the largest private capital market issuances with proceeds destined for Latin America to date. Learn more: https://okt.to/ik9rHM ➡️ Fabricio Longhin, Jonathan Zonis, Paula Ferreira, Agata Radajczyk, David Rondon and Fernando de Aguiar advised IDB Invest as purchaser of record in connection with an A/B purchase facility for up to US$2.4 billion for the sale and purchase of power tariff receivables. ➡️ Hugo Triaca, Joyce Moore and Cristian Ragucci advised Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as sole global coordinator and arranger of the B purchase facility, and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Itau BBA USA Securities Inc., as joint bookrunners, in connection with the offering by a special purpose vehicle incorporated in Luxembourg of US$1.4 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.580% Notes due 2035, ➡️ Alberto Haito and Jorge Vazquez advised Amicorp Group in various agent roles, as part of the securitization of the above power tariff receivables. #LatAm #Chile #CapitalMarkets