Osborne Clarke has advised flower subscription service, Bloomy Days (bloomydays.de), on its refinancing by investors Intan Media-Service, Otto Capital and Atlantic Internet.

Bloomy days is the first flower-subscription service in Germany to deliver fresh flower arrangements to your door, on a weekly basis. The Berlin-based company was founded in 2012 by Franziska von Hardenberg and has since seen significant growth. Otto Capital and Atlantic Internet had previously invested in the flower subscription service.

A Weil team led by New York partner Danek Freeman advised Citi in connection with providing committed debt financing for FMC Corp.’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Cheminova A/S, a multinational crop protection company based in Denmark, from Auriga Industries A/S.

Hogan Lovells and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have advised on the financing of the acquisition by Homair Vacances of the European camping holiday provider, Eurocamp, from UK-based company Holidaybreak.

This acquisition, which was finalised on Wednesday 10 September 2014, confirms Homair Vacances' position as a European leader in outdoor accommodation, with over 15,000 mobile homes on approximately 300 campsites located principally in France, Spain, Italy and Croatia.

Shearman & Sterling represented Citibank, N.A., as joint lead arranger and administrative agent, in providing $1 billion in financing commitments for the announced $3 billion acquisition by Select Income REIT (NYSE: SIR) of Cole Corporate Income Trust (CCIT) through a merger transaction. UBS Securities LLC will act as a joint lead arranger in the financing.

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, has announced that the firm represented Jefferies Finance LLC, Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Nomura Securities International, Inc. as lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with the financing for the acquisition of landscaping company ValleyCrest Holding Co. by KKR-backed landscaping company The Brickman Group Ltd.
 

CMS has advised ING and UniCredit as coordinators, and lenders Citibank, BNP Paribas, Natixis, Rabobank, Arab Bank and Banque de Commerce et de Placements (BCP) on a sunflower oil based pre-export financing of up to USD 400 million for Kernel Group, Ukraine’s leading agribusiness.

Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”),has advised Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG (“Berenberg Bank”) and KBC Deutschland AG (“KBC”)  under the existing  acquisition and working capital facility framework for the add-on-acquisition of revos watercooler GmbH (”revos“) by Aqua Vital Quell- und Mineralwasser GmbH (“Aqua Vital”).

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised a syndicate of lenders on a US$600 million equivalent five-year club loan for Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited. The lenders were China Development Bank (Hong Kong branch), China Minsheng Bank (Hong Kong branch), China CITIC Bank International, China Merchants Bank (Hong Kong branch) and Wing Lung Bank.

Brightoil is a privately-owned Chinese energy company with a global presence focusing on oil storage and terminal facilities, marine transportation, international trading and bunkering, as well as upstream oil and gas exploration.

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Royal Bank of Canada, as administrative agent in connection with a $225 million Canadian dollar asset-based revolving credit facility, and RBC Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as arrangers in connection with such credit facility.

Shearman & Sterling advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint book runners, in connection with a $4 billion 364-day credit facility for The Procter & Gamble Company and some of its subsidiaries. The Shearman & Sterling team included partner Maura O’Sullivan (New York-Finance) and counsel Susan Hobart (New York-Finance).