Linklaters advise the common lenders and EKF, Denmark’s Export Credit Agency, on the NT$18.7bn project financing
    Financing involved a consortium of eleven international and local Taiwanese banks providing 16 year project financing together with a guarantee provided by EKF.
    First project financing in the Taiwanese offshore wind industry and expected to provide the financing template for the large number of offshore wind projects slated for development over the next few years.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau on the US$ 31.7m financing of the Kosten onshore wind farm project located in Escalante in Argentina’s Chubut province. The financing is covered by an ECA guarantee from Germany’s Euler Hermes and is one of the first non-recourse project financing transactions in Argentina after the last change of government.

DLA Piper has advised the lenders in connection with the financing of the Rv. 3/Rv. 25 project in Norway, worth NOK2.6 billion, about EUR270 million.

Skanska, a leading development and construction company in the Nordics, has signed the project agreement and reached financial close with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) for the financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance of a new 25 kilometre national road, the Rv. 3/Rv. 25 between Løten and Elverum, in the county of Hedmark, Norway.

DLA Piper has advised Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) on the financing of the acquisition of an office portfolio by Corpus Sireo Real Estate. The seller is Swiss Life and the parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price and the amount of financing.

The 108,000 square metres portfolio financed by Helaba consists of eleven office properties located in Hanover, Essen, Düsseldorf, Neuss, Cologne, Mannheim, Oberursel, Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt. With an area of 98,200 square metres, office space accounts for the largest share.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Proparco, the French development finance institution and Dutch development bank, FMO, in relation to the financing of a 37MW solar PV project in Westmoreland, Jamaica. When complete it will be the largest in Jamaica.