Client(s) advised

Australian quoted group and EPF (Malaysia) 

Value

EUR 500,000,000

Date of closing

June-July 2013

Lead partner from your firm

Denis VAN DEN BULKE, Laurence JACQUES

Other lawyers 

from your firm involved Gregor BERKE (Finance)

Description

VANDENBULKE advised a publicly quoted Australian group in the establishment of a 70/30 joint venture with the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), a Malaysian government-sponsored fund.
 

Our corporate department led the process of drafting the joint-venture agreement, negotiated the shareholder arrangements and organized twelve investments under the form of asset or purchase deals.  Our tax department advised the equity-debt structuring while the finance department was mainly counseling the joint venture on the impact of the AIFM regulations on the structure.

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Client(s) advised

Idinvest, Access Capital and IFE Mezzanine

Value

EUR 20,000,000

Date of closing

April 2013

Lead partner from your firm

Denis VANDENBULKE

Other lawyers from your firm

Laurence JACQUES, Frédéric PAGET (Tax)

Relevant jurisdictions 

UK, France, Luxembourg, Finland

Description

We have advised the client in the granting of a mezzanine financing of 20 million € which enabled to proceed to the acquisition of Natural Distribution Properties Limited and of Natural Distribution (Holdings) Limited; The group principally markets its products in France under the label Santé Verte.

Global transaction amounted to 70 Million EUR. 

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