Whether a corporate, investor, financial institution or other stakeholder, Baker McKenzie advises clients on complex legal and commercial issues to maximize deal certainty and secure the intended value of transactions. Significant deals that Baker McKenzie lawyers have handled over the past two months include:
Amethis – Advised Amethis, an impact-oriented private equity firm focusing on financial, environmental and social sustainability, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Kazareen Textile Group, a leading textiles, apparel and fashion manufacturing group with B2B-focused operations across multiple geographies in Africa, Europe, the GCC and the United States as well as subsidiaries in Egypt, Germany, France and Canada. Learn more about the deal here. Lead lawyers: Hani Nassef, Omar Zaki, Hayna Abdelrehim (Cairo)
Bad Carbon LLC (BadCarbon) – Advised BadCarbon on an equity investment with Nexus Renewable Power, LLC valued at USD 100 million in the form of carbon credits generated under BadCarbon’s Geologic Environmental Mineral Sequestration (GEMS™) methodology. Click here to learn more. Lead lawyers: David Hackett (Chicago), Daniel De Deo (Washington, DC)
Bank SinoPac – Advised Taiwan's Bank SinoPac in its USD 550 million acquisition of Cambodian microfinance institution Amret. Learn more about the deal here. Lead lawyers: Kevin Wang, Louis Liu (Taipei)
CommScope Holding Company, Inc. – Advised CommScope on a USD 2.1 billion carveout sale of its Outdoor Wireless Networks and Distributed Antenna Systems businesses to Amphenol Corporation. Click here to learn more about the transaction. Lead lawyers: Pamela Dayanim, Daniel De Deo (Washington, DC)
BBVA, J.P. Morgan, Alterna, BofA, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Santander and Scotia – Represented BBVA and J.P. Morgan, as global coordinators, and Alterna, BofA, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Santander and Scotia, as joint bookrunners, in connection with a USD 800 million sustainability-linked notes offering by Fibra Uno. The sustainability-linked notes are reported to have among the strongest relevant ESG terms of any international bond. Learn more about the offering here: Lead lawyers: Mike Fitzgerald, Arturo Carrillo, Joy Gallup, Steven Sandretto (New York)
Galapagos – Advising Galapagos on its strategic separation into two publicly traded entities, creating a new entity with approximately EUR 2.45 billion in cash for innovative medicine development. Click here to learn more. Lead lawyer: Roel Meers (Brussels)
Goldman Capital Investments LLC – Advised Goldman Capital Investments on the sale of the Radisson Blu hotel in Dubai Media City, one of Dubai's premier media and business districts to Select Group. Lean more about the transaction here. Lead lawyers: Keri Watkins, Marcos Spanos (Dubai)
Gulf Data Hub (GDH) – Advised GDH on its strategic partnership with KKR, involving the sale of a significant stake to the global investment firm. This partnership aims to support over USD 5 billion in total investment to expand GDH's data center platform across the Middle East. Click here to learn more. Lead lawyers: Abeer Jarrar (Dubai), George Marshall, David Hart (London), Anne Petterd (Sydney)
Heiwa Corporation - Advised Heiwa Corporation, operator of Pacific Golf Management K.K., one of Japan's largest golf course management companies, on its ~USD 3.5 billion acquisition of all of the shares in PJC Investments Holdings L.P., the parent company of Accordia Golf Co., Ltd. Read more here. Lead lawyer: Kiyoshi Endo (Tokyo)
Incyte – Advised Incyte in its strategic collaboration agreement with Genesis Therapeutics for the use of its AI platform, GEMS, for the discovery of novel molecules. The USD 30 million upfront deal includes the use of GEMS to develop small molecule medicines against two Incyte-selected targets in severe disease. If all milestones are achieved, Genesis is eligible to receive up to USD 295 million in development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments per target. Click here to learn more about the deal. Lead lawyers: Randall Sunberg (New York), Devin Muntz (Chicago)
Kantar Group – Advising Kantar Group, a leading global market research company and portfolio company of Bain Capital, on the proposed USD 1 billion sale of Kantar Media to H.I.G. Capital, a leading global alternative investment firm. Learn more about the deal here. Lead lawyer: Justin Hutchinson (London)
Novonesis – Advised Novonesis on its EUR 1.5 billion acquisition of dsm-firmenich’s share of the Feed Enzyme Alliance. This acquisition will accelerate Novonesis’ sales growth of animal biosolutions by a low-single-digit CAGR above market growth while also delivering adj. EBITDA margin accretion for the group. Click here to learn more about the transaction. Lead lawyers: Jannan Crozier, Robert Gray (London), Gavin Bushell (Brussels)
Owens Corning – Advising Owens Corning in divestiture of its glass reinforcements business for USD 755 million. Learn more about the deal here. Lead lawyers: Alan Zoccolillo, Laura Estrada-Vasquez (New York)