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Asset finance and leasing

  • advising LOT, the Polish flag carrier airline, on the financing of two Embraer 170 aircraft - financing provided by the European Investment Bank with support from KFW
  • advising GE Capital Aviation Services on a US$90 million sale and leaseback of nine GE90 aircraft engines leased to BA
  • advising Xerox Financial Services SAS on a EUR438 million secured warehouse facility from Merrill Lynch to fund vendor finance leases to Xerox customers in France.

Banking restructuring

  • advising ALSTOM on a EUR4 billion French refinancing and restructuring
  • advising PIK Noteholders on the Vantico EUR873 million Luxembourg chemicals restructuring.

Leveraged and acquisition finance

  • advising CIBC World Markets on the acquisition of Vaasan & Vaasan Group
  • advising Mizuho Corporate Bank on the acquisition of the AZ Global Operations of Clariant International.

Project finance

  • advising RWE/Thames and Berlinwasser on the Zagreb waste water project, the largest limited recourse water project in the world
  • advising The Tube Lines Limited and Tube Lines on its £2.1 billion refinancing - one of the most high profile and complex infrastructure bonds ever launched.

Real estate finance

  • advising Nomura International on the acquisition by London & Regional Properties Limited of a portfolio of 280 pubs from the Laurel Pub Group
  • advising Credit Suisse First Boston of the sale and leaseback of Center Parcs.

Structured commodity & export finance

  • advising Deutsche Bank AG on a US$65 million ECGD backed loan to Mozfund Proprietary Limited as part of the further financing of the Mozal aluminium plant (Mozal II)
  • advising Moscow Narodny Bank; Société Generale; Standard Bank on a US$100 million medium term loan for OAO Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, one of Russia's largest steel producers.