📢 We have advised US headquartered private equity firm MiddleGround Capital on its acquisition of UK based Integral Powertrain Ltd. (“Helix”), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance electric motors, high-voltage inverters, and integrated electric drive units for a variety of rapidly growing applications in the mobility sector. Helix's founding shareholders will remain minority shareholders in the business following the acquisition. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g-uMK3HD The multidisciplinary Clifford Chance team was led by private equity M&A partner Neil Barlow, with support from senior associate Mark Inkester, associates Louise Murray and Megan Hodges and trainee Isabella Savage. Specialist advice was provided on employment matters by partner Alistair Woodland, senior associate Kristen Hammond and associate Amber Mullins; on tax matters by partner Nicola Hemsley and associate Archie Zverev; on antitrust and regulatory matters by partner Susan Hinchliffe and associate Maria Sowinska; on IP matters by partner Don McCombie and senior associate Sean Wood; and on real estate by partner Alis Pay and senior associates Katie Kempthorne and Alice Raine. #PrivateCapital #PrivateEquity #FinancialInvestors
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We are one of the world's largest law firms with significant depth and range of resources across five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegiate and team based way of working. We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not for profit organisations. We provide them with the highest quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise. Many of the world's leading organisations look to Clifford Chance not just for legal expertise but for advice on business critical issues.
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📢 We have advised ED&F Man, one of the world’s leading providers of soft commodities and logistics, in relation to an exclusive agreement with Hartree Partners, a global energy and commodities trading company, to dispose of ED&F Man Commodities’ three business units: Volcafe (coffee), ED&F Man Liquid Products (molasses, animal feeds and fish oil) and ED&F Man Sugar. Concurrently, Hartree has acquired the majority of ED&F Man Commodities’ outstanding A2 and B1 Senior Secured Legacy Debt. Read more: https://okt.to/koCFAT The cross practice Clifford Chance team was led by Corporate M&A partners Melissa Fogarty and Dominic Ross, senior associates Catherine Freeman and Sophie Stratton and associates Isabella Risino and Shayan Junaid. Employment advice was provided by partner Chinwe Odimba-Chapman and director Amy Bird, incentives advice was provided by director Juliette Graham and associate Leon Kidd and pensions advice by partner Clare Hoxey clifford chace and associate Lauren Sutcliffe. Partner Nicola Hemsley and associate Viktoria Parkhomenko advised on tax. Partner Don McCombie advised on IP matters, supported by a Tech and Digital team including partner Zayed Al Jamil, Michael Evans, Mark Comber and Adam Hunter on the transitional services workstream. US law elements were handled by partner Cephas Sekhar and associate Jordan Mack from the Houston office. #MergersAndAquisition
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📢 We have provided advisory services to the lenders for the financing of Uzbekistan's inaugural 250 MW solar photovoltaic plant, which includes a 63 MW battery energy storage system, in the Bukhara region, a project undertaken by Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) PJSC and its financiers ( Asian Development Bank (ADB), FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank (FMO), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and IFC - International Finance Corporation. The project is Central Asia's first renewable energy project with an integrated BESS component. It is the second large-scale renewables project to be implemented under the country’s PPP law. The Clifford Chance multidisciplinary team across the Paris, London, Dubai and Abu Dhabi offices includes Milica Zatezalo-Falatar, partner, Elena Prudon, Violaine Lecoq Burgelin and Manon Guery, associates, and Ilona Métais, on the project and financing aspects; Fabien Jacquemard, senior counsel, on the hedging aspects; Sandy John Hall, partner, and Jonathan Forrest, senior associate, on the construction aspects; Bruce Kahl, partner, and Struan Murray, senior associate, on the agency aspects ; as well as Nicola Reader, partner, and Salma Mowlid, associate, on the ADGM and UAE law aspects. #Energy
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✨ We are thrilled to announce that our global Intellectual Property team has been recognised in the 2024 Managing IP IP STARS rankings! This achievement highlights our dedication and excellence across our global IP team, with team and individual rankings in the UK, Spain, Germany, Asia and the US. A special congratulations to our colleagues who have been individually recognised as IP STARS for their outstanding contributions: Stephen Reese CBE, Vanessa Marsland, Miquel Montañá, Josep Montefusco, Dr. Claudia Milbradt, Tobias J. Hessel, Ling Ho and Devika Kornbacher. Your hard work and expertise continue to drive our success and reinforce our position as leaders in the field of intellectual property. Thank you to our clients for your continued trust and support. #IPStars #IntellectualProperty
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Public takeover offer and financing in the DACH region: Our international team has advised US private equity firm MiddleGround Capital on their intended voluntary public takeover offer for all outstanding shares of STEMMER IMAGING AG, a leading provider of machine and artificial vision solutions based in Puchheim/Germany. The intention to launch a tender offer was made by Blitz 24-884 AG, a holding company controlled by funds managed or advised by MiddleGround. The Clifford Chance team provided comprehensive legal advice on all issues regarding the intended voluntary public takeover offer, the majority shareholder re-invest as well as the acquisition financing. ➡ Read more about the transaction: https://okt.to/KofIZ6 Our cross-border team: Dr. Moritz Petersen, Dominik Heß, Thomas Conradi, Lennart Göbel, Alisa Liebchen, Helge Brück, Esther G., Dr. Simon Reitz, Christoph Nensa, Nico Köhler and Peter Gierl, André Weber, Axel Wittmann, Andrei Dan Manea, Dr. Christopher Fischer and Dr. Stefan Simon, Julia Kolb, Thomas Reischauer and Ahmad Zaheri, Holger Lutz, Nadine Neumeier, LL.M., Dr. Tobias Born and Benjamin Wollweber, Gerson Raiser and Margarete Weiß, Dr. Claudia Milbradt, Dr. Nicolas Hohn-Hein and Yang Cao, Dimitri Slobodenjuk and Simon Wattenberg, Dominik Engl and Dr. Claus-Peter Knölle as well as further lawyers from the Clifford Chance offices in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Spain. Congratulations to everyone involved! 👏 #PrivateEquity #PublicTakeover #MergersAndAcquisitions #DebtFinance #AcquisitionFinance
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Some of our global Private Credit team recently took an insightful walk through global market developments during a Clifford Chance Perspectives webinar that asked What does the short and long-term future hold for private credit? Moderated by Jim MacHale, our expert panel of Partners and Counsel, Katherine Sinclair, Chin Seng Chew, Elizabeth Hundt Russell, Jason Ewart, Christoph Nensa, Shaun Langhorne and Boudewijn Vermeer, looked to answer - Will the boom times in private credit continue or will enthusiasm be dampened by the resurgence of syndicated bank loans and the return of CLOs? For a short summary of the discussion read: https://okt.to/zFuL6w #PrivateCredit #PrivateCapital #Investment
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📢 The EU AI Act is set to reshape AI governance with its comprehensive rules and wide territorial reach. Learn about key concepts, definitions, and the scope of this groundbreaking legislation in the latest article by Arnav Joshi and Nina Khalfi published by IAPP. Full article https://okt.to/L5bpZx #AIRegulation #TechPolicy #EUAIAct
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🎧 Tune in to the next episode of our PE Risks podcast series where we will be focusing on tax. In this episode senior associate Mayowa Kalesanwo hosts a discussion with partners Nicola Hemsley and Philip Wagman on key tax developments concerning anti-avoidance and substance which pose risks and opportunities for Sponsors. 🎙 Tune in here: https://okt.to/StW34Q #PERisks #PrivateEquity #RiskManagement #CliffordChance #tax #privatecapital
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We have advised Exclusive Networks SA, a global leader in cybersecurity, on the acquisition of a majority stake and the launch of a mandatory simplified public offer by Clayton Dubilier & Rice, in consortium with Permira, majority shareholder of Exclusive Networks SA. The offer values Exclusive Networks SA at approximately €2.2 billion, corresponding to €18.96 per share after an exceptional distribution as part of the refinancing of existing debt of €5.29 per share, representing a total amount of €24.25 per share. The Clifford Chance team was composed of Fabrice Cohen (Partner), Aline Cardin (Partner), and Benjamin Saada (Senior Associate) for Corporate/M&A aspects; Thierry Arachtingi (Partner) and Maroussia Cuny (Counsel) for financing aspects; Florence Aubonnet (Partner) for labor law; and Anne Lemercier (Partner) for employee benefits aspects. More information here: https://okt.to/iNf6kH #cybersecurity #acquisition #mandatorysimplifiedoffer
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🌬️ We advised TotalEnergies on its landmark agreements to acquire a stake in OranjeWind, from German renewables developer RWE, in view of supplying #GreenHydrogen to its European refineries and lowering its emissions. This marks TotalEnergies' entry into the Dutch #OffshoreWind market. OranjeWind is a 795 MW offshore wind farm under development in the North Sea in the Netherlands. To tackle the challenges of fluctuating power generation from wind and flexible #energy demand, OranjeWind involves a combination of first-of-a-kind smart innovations and large-scale investments, which will be used in combination to manage power intermittency and grid congestion issues and realise the required match between supply and demand. The core team comprised Liesbeth Buiter, Jeroen Thijssen, Philip Walsh, Pieter Leefers, Hansuya Reddy, Sabine van den Heuvel, Johanneke Butijn, Wouter Fonteijn, Niels Kuil and Maria Boerman. Furthermore Dimitri Slobodenjuk, Caroline Scholke, Marion Meier (Antitrust) and Yannick Niedergethmann (Corporate) from our Düsseldorf office were also part of the wider cross-border team. ➡ Read more: https://okt.to/PughrF #MergersAndAcquisitions #Infrastructure #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy