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Freshfields, Latham, advise on $848 mln financing for Bahri-Vela merger

BY Aviel Tan, Reuters |

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) on a $848 million Shariah-compliant bridge facility for its merger with Vela International Marine
A&O, Latham star in SEC’s $2.5 bln sukuk issuance

BY Vasundhara Chatterjee |

Allen & Overy and Latham & Watkins have advised on Saudi Electric Company’s (SEC) issuance of a 30-year international sukuk worth $2.5 billion.
Latham & Watkins hires oil and gas partner from V&E in HK

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Latham & Watkins has boosted its Asian energy and resources expertise with the hire of David Blumental as a partner in the firm’s corporate department in Hong Kong.
Bakers, Latham fuel Thaioil’s $1 bln offering

BY ALB |

Baker & McKenzie and Latham & Watkins have represented Thailand’s Thaioil on its offering of $1 billion dual-tranche senior unsecured fixed-rate notes to foreign institutional investors.
Latham, ABNR advise on $2.5 bln Pertamina bond offering

BY Paul Pimentel |

Latham & Watkins and Ali Budiardjo, Nugroho, Reksodiputro (ABNR) have represented Indonesian state-owned energy giant PT Pertamina (Persero) in its $2.5 billion bond offering, the largest Asian debt issue in the U.S. market so far this year.
A&O, Latham & Watkins advise on $2.7 bln Mobily Islamic financing

BY Shaheen Pasha |

International law firms Allen & Overy and Latham & Watkins recently advised Saudi Arabian telecom Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) on its 10 billion riyal ($2.7 billion) syndicated Islamic financing. The financing is one of the largest general syndicated Islamic financing transactions to date.
Latham advises Indonesia’s DSS on $1.24 bln proposed mine stake sale to UFS

BY Ranajit Dam |

Latham & Watkins has advised energy and infrastructure company Dian Swastatika Sentosa (DSS) on the proposed sale of its 67 percent stake in Indonesia-listed Golden Energy Mines (GEMS) to United Fiber System (UFS) for S$1.55 billion ($1.24 billion), a deal that is expected to boost GEM’s profile as a regional coal company.