Clifford Chance has advised Essel-Clean Solu Hydropower Private Limited on the $142.5 million financing of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant with a total installed capacity of 82 MW located in Solukhumbu District in the Eastern Development Region in Nepal (the Lower Solu Project). The Lower Solu Project is the largest private sector energy project and the first private financing in Nepal undertaken by both international and domestic lenders.

Linklaters Paris advised Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (NORD/LB) acting as sole arranger on the structuring and financing of an 11 turbines on-shore wind farm located in the Franche-Comté region (France) developed by Opale Energies Naturelles on behalf of Velocita Energies. The turbines will be supplied by General Electric, which will also provide operation and maintenance services. The next wind farms of Velocita’s 220 MW+ pipeline are expected in 2015 and 2016.

Watson Farley & Williams has advised HSH Nordbank AG (“HSH Nordbank”) on the financing of the two sub-projects of the Finnish “Ylivieska Pajukoski” wind farm.

The Energy & Infrastructure Finance team at Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has advised longstanding client Primrose Solar on two inflation-linked financings from a major institutional investor for five solar parks worth £60 million. The developments have an overall energy production capacity of about 80MW.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised HSH Nordbank on all relevant legal and tax aspects of the financing of the 57.7 MWp solar power portfolio “La Coste”, located in France. It is the second renewable energy deal in France with the same developer on which WFW has advised HSH Nordbank recently, having previously advised on the financing of the construction and operation of an 8.2 MW wind farm in Saint Congard.

White & Case LLP has advised the lenders, including international financial institutions International Finance Corporation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, DEG, Proparco and Korea Development Bank, and a syndicate of commercial banks including BBVA, SMBC, HSBC, Siemens Bank and Deutsche Bank, on the €550 million financing of an integrated healthcare campus public-private partnership (PPP) in Adana, Turkey.

Baker & McKenzie advised a group of commercial lenders on the €541 million Adana Integrated Healthcare Campus Project, one of Turkey's first Public Private Partnership (PPP) hospital projects to reach financial close.

The project will see Meridiam, a leading global infrastructure firm, and Ronesans, a major Turkish construction group, design, build, finance, operate and transfer the hospital with a 36-month construction period followed by a 25-year operating period.

Norton Rose Fulbright has assisted BNP Paribas on a €180Mm long term project financing for the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Enel Green Power France SAS, a portfolio of 13 wind farms with a total capacity of around 196 MW.

Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (“Salubris”, stock code: 002294), founded in 1998, was listed on the Stock Exchange of Shenzhen in 2009. It is a leading innovative hi-tech enterprise in China’s cardiovascular sector which has been listed in the “National Torch Plan”.

Using its own fund, the company acquired a 24.06% stake in Suzhou Genemen Biotech Co., Ltd. (“Suzhou Genemen”) at a price of RMB45mln and would inject another RMB150mln into Suzhou Genemen to raise its stake to 58%.

Norton Rose Fulbright has acted for the financiers – Banco Santander, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Agricole CIB Australia, The Bank of Nova Scotia Asia and United Overseas Bank – on the successful ALTRAC Light Rail Consortium bid (formerly known as the Connecting Sydney Consortium) for the Sydney Light Rail PPP project.

ALTRAC Light Rail, which comprised Alstom Transport Australia, Transdev, Acciona and Capella Capital, will deliver and operate the new CBD and South East light rail in Sydney.