Clifford Chance

📢 We have advised Santander and Citi as the initial purchasers on the debut €300 million green bond issuance of MLP GROUP S.A., a leading European logistics and industrial platform headquartered in Poland. The Clifford Chance team was led by partner Michael Dakin with support from Phil Houten and Aritra Saha in the London office, and by Grzegorz Namiotkiewicz and Andrzej Stosio with support from Aleksandra Rudzińska and Wojciech Janowski in the Warsaw office. Read more: https://okt.to/JFAwdf

📢 We have advised the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on a tap of its digitally native note issuance. This $200 million issuance, arranged by Citi and BMO Capital Markets, was issued under AIIB's global medium-term note program and utilises Euroclear's Digital Securities Issuance platform, harnessing distributed ledger technology to enhance the issuance, distribution, and settlement of digital notes. This innovative project, which consolidates with a previous $300 million issuance, represents a milestone in digital finance as Euroclear’s first U.S. dollar digital note and marks a first for an Asia-based issuer on this platform. Clifford Chance’s team was led by partner Matt Fairclough in London, alongside counsel Alexander Tollast in Paris and associate Caroline Smyth in London. Read more: https://okt.to/3CD1HP #CapitalMarkets #Innovation #DigitalFinance

🎉Earlier this month we attended the ACGC (African Corporate and Government Counsel Forum) Annual Forum in Accra, Ghana and were awarded the ACGC Community Partnership Award for Global Law Firm, recognising our collaboration and partnership with clients. We also led a panel on digital transformation and AI governance in global markets and joined Microsoft's discussion on how legal teams can spearhead adoption of responsible AI. To learn more about our key takeaways on governance, strategy, and essential business considerations from the ACGC conference, read our latest Talking Tech article 👇 https://okt.to/RIMt9m #ACGC2024 #AIRegulation #AIAdoption #GeneralCounselAfrica

Tune in to the next episode of the PE Risks podcast series where we will be focusing on ABC, AML and Sanctions. In this episode senior associate @Victoria Ho hosts a discussion with partners Michael Lyons and Kelwin Nicholls on the ever present and increasingly complex challenge for Sponsors and their portfolio companies of managing bribery, money laundering and sanctions risks including creating strategies for them to monitor and address these risks. Watch the full episode here: https://okt.to/clhTQW #PERisks #PrivateEquity #RiskManagement #CliffordChance #Sanctions #AML #PrivateCapital

📢 We have advised Citi, J.P. Morgan and Standard Bank Group, as joint global coordinators and mandated lead arrangers, on a comprehensive financing transaction for Africell Group, a leading regional African mobile network operator with operations in The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The transaction included Africell's debut high yield bond offering of U.S.$300 million of senior secured notes, entry into a new U.S.$30 million revolving credit facility, related intercreditor arrangements and the release of security under the company's existing financing arrangements. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/etG2u-kw Clifford Chance's multidisciplinary London-based team advising the banks was led by partners Kayode Oladipo and Drew Rundus, with senior associates Sannu Shrestha and Michael Darko and associates Yassin Salla, Kuan Yue Lim, Garo Yaghsezian, Mohammed Ghuas and Geoffrey Adonu. A team led by London partner Louise Keary and including senior associates Andrew Whelan and Struan Murray and associate Robert Hartman advised Citi as notes trustee and Standard Bank as security agent. #CapitalMarkets #HighYield #Banking #Finance #Africa #Telecommunications

🌍 We have advised J.P. Morgan on a landmark $1B debt conversion for river conservation in El Salvador. This transaction, involving the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe-, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the Environmental Investment Fund of El Salvador (FIAES) Fondo de Inversión Ambiental de El Salvador and ArtCap Strategies is expected to realize more than $352.5 million in lifetime savings. $350 million of these savings are expected to be applied to the Rio Lempa Conservation and Restoration Program. This initiative is expected to improve water quality, strengthen climate resilience, and ensure long-term funding for conservation. The successful execution of the deal adds to Clifford Chance's well established track record of advising clients on cutting edge blended finance transactions for sovereigns and complements Clifford Chance's strong track record in sovereign debt conversions and debt-for-nature swaps. Our partner Deborah Zandstra led on the transaction and was assisted by a core team comprising of partner Jonathan Zonis, senior associates Sarah Cheng, Lucia Ferrer and James Kelton, and associates Alexandra Machado and Teninlanimi Owolabi as well as trainees Gerry Nauta-Bluer, Hannah M. and Liam Woodward. Read more here: https://okt.to/SHaGJN #SustainableFinance #Conservation #ESG #DebtForNature #CliffordChance

"However tough it gets, never let go of that drive to be better. Though there will be mistakes along the way, your growth will be a testament of your hard work." Hear about Tanecia Vasquez Britt's personal growth journey from law student to passing the bar!✨ To find out more about our opportunities in the US, visit jobs.cliffordchance.com/us #TheRealContract #WhereBrightMindsMeet #CareersinLaw #CliffordChanceCareers

✨ Recognition for Clifford Chance in the IJGlobal ESG Awards 2024 featured our firm advising on three sustainable 'Deals of the Year' that straddled Europe and Latin America and securing the IJGlobal ESG Governance Award, including for the ongoing roll-out of our values-based Code. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gjbZ-5Jx #ESG

☀️ We advised Rabobank on the second cluster of solar PV assets financed under the €200 million project finance facility for AMPYR Solar Europe, a leading pan-European #solar developer and independent power producer, as part of a portfolio of fully owned projects combined with projects with community participations. This relates to four photovoltaic parks in the Noordoostpolder along the Noordermeerdijk with installed capacity of approximately 96MWp, whereby solar panels will be placed between and directly next to the wind turbines on the Noordermeerdijk, becoming the largest solar farm built underneath a #windfarm. Our team was led by Nanette Rutgers and Liesbeth Buiter and further consisted of Carlijn Tenge, Lotte de Bruin, Esmée Oldenkamp, Johanneke Butijn and Dilan Ata. ➡️ Read more: https://okt.to/AHCw8S #EnergyAndInfrastructure #SolarEnergy #SolarPark #RenewableEnergy

📢 We advised ExxonMobil on its agreement with the New Generation Gas Gathering (NG3) project to transport and store up to 1.2 million metric tons a year (MTA) of CO2 from NG3’s planned facility in Louisiana. Learn more: https://okt.to/MOypHf Jonathan Castelan led the matter with support from Sam Bentley and Hillary Healey. Alexander Leff advised on Tax matters.