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You’re dealing with sophisticated financial transactions in a fast-moving global marketplace, and you want representation that’s equally sophisticated. You want the knowledge to help you with intricate cross-border deals and increasing regulatory pressure. You want the ability to defend your interests in a mercurial market.

Dentons has that knowledge and ability. We understand the sector—and financial institutions of every size, focus and geography.

From banks and insurance companies to trading houses and credit payment providers, you get a global team—working from offices around the world including the major financial centers of London, Hong Kong and New York.

When you’re doing business within the financial markets, we’ll be by your side planning, deploying and advancing your interests. We’ll give you the ability to take care of transactional and adversarial matters—to take decisive action, when the market or the deal won’t wait.

Look to our lawyers for effective solutions across the financial services sector including:

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Finance—Asset, Structured, Lending and Acquisition, Project, Real Estate, Trade and Commodities
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Lending and Acquisition Finance
Private equity
Regulatory
Reorganization, Restructuring & Insolvency
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Experience

Multinational financial institution: Dentons and Nextlaw In-House Solutions, including a team of former GCs, supported the board and audit committee in their oversight of regulatory compliance programs to fulfill prudential regulator expectations. The client’s audit committee praised our team for the novelty and substantive value of our methodology and findings, which surpassed the capabilities of traditional strategic consultancies while also offering the protection of attorney-client privilege. Our report was provided to and comprehensively reviewed by the regulator. www.nextlawinhouse.com
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank PJSC: Advising on an AED 250 million unregistered sale and leaseback (ijara) facility to Emirates National Factory for Plastic Industries LLC, a Sharjah-based company and one of the UAE's largest manufacturers of plastic products. The deal involved a number of disbursements and a mixture of moveable assets (plant and machinery) and real estate located in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. The security package included a commercial mortgage, real estate mortgages and assignments of various revenue streams. The facility was split into a Dirham tranche and a Dollar tranche. The deal won the award for "Syndicated Deal of the Year" at the Islamic Finance News Awards 2011.
Capital Power: Advising on financings, which have a combined value of US$995 million, specifically a US dollar note issue by Capital Power US Financing L.P., as issuer, and guaranteed by Capital Power L.P., as parent guarantor, pursuant to which US$230 million 5.21% Series A senior guaranteed notes and US$65 million 5.61% Series B senior guaranteed notes were issued, and the amendment and restatement of the senior syndicated credit facilities of Capital Power L.P. for US$700 million. The amendment and restatement included the addition of Capital Power (US Holdings) Inc. as US borrower.
China Development Bank: Advising on a CA$352 million secured credit facility to Canadian Royalties Inc., a subsidiary of Jilin Jien Nickel Industry Co. Bank.
Citibank N.A. (US) and Citibank N.A.: Representing Citibank N.A. (US) and Citibank N.A., London branch in the establishment of TD Bank’s first regulated covered bond programme under the CMHC Registry.
EDB: Representing on a US$300 million financing of turn-key construction of the new Abakan combined heat and power unit by Yenisei TGC (TGC-13), a member of the Siberian Generating Company Group.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Representing a European-based IFI on its €320 million senior secured syndicated loan to PCMA Rus, a Peugeot-Citroen / Mitsubishi Motors joint venture, for the construction of a €500 million automobile manufacturing plant in Kaluga, Russia.
International Bank of Azerbaijan: Advising on the establishment of an Islamic Banking Unit and the drafting of amendments to the banking legislation of Azerbaijan to accommodate Islamic banking. This will be the first time that Islamic banking products will be offered in Azerbaijan and will serve as a model for any future Islamic banking structures within the country and the region.
Investment and Development Office of the Government of Ras Al Khaimah: Advising on the annual update of RAK Capital's $2 billion certificate issuance programme and a related liability management transaction. The transaction included simultaneous tender and exchange offers, as well as consent solicitations, in respect of $325 million trust certificates issued on behalf of the RAK Investment Authority and AED1 billion trust certificates issued by RAK Capital. At the same time we advised on the new issue of $400 million trust certificates due 2016 under the RAK Capital programme. This was the first Shariah compliant liability management exercise with publicly traded sukuk and was voted most Innovative Deal of the Year by Islamic Finance News.
JPMorgan Chase: Advising as administrative agent on a CA$800 million five-year revolving credit facility for Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation. This is one of the largest revolving credit facilities raised by an entertainment company in more than a decade. The new facility replaces Lionsgate's previous CA$340 million revolving credit facility.
Keybank: Advising on a $60 million Build America Bond transaction for the Navajo Nation, the first large scale loan to be governed solely by tribal law and tribal courts. This transaction was awarded the "Deal of the Year" award in 2011 by the Native American Finance Officers Association.
Qatar International Islamic Bank: Acting in connection with its successful debut US$700 million sukuk issue. The transaction represents QIIB's first international debt capital markets issuance. We successfully applied our debt capital market and Islamic finance expertise, as well as our specific local knowledge to help QIIB as a first-time issuer, which has strengthened QIIB's prominence throughout the Middle East region and beyond. This significant deal demonstrates our capability to work effectively across various offices in our network.
Royal Bank of Canada Natixis New York Branch: Advising on a CA$252 million project financing by Le Plateau Wind Power LP (a wholly owned subsidiary of Invenergy Wind LLC) for the development, construction, ownership and operation of a 138.6 megawatt wind-power generation facility in the MRC d’Avignon, QC.
The Law Debenture Trust Corporation: Acting as bond trustee in relation to the restructuring of €1.3 billion of bonds guaranteed by SEAT Pagine Gialle (Italian Yellow Pages) and issued by its subsidiary in Luxembourg. The complex restructuring (which was part of a full debt restructuring of SEAT) was effected by way of a consent solicitation pursuant to which the existing high yield bondholders voted to approve an exchange of their bonds for equity in SEAT (via an issue of convertible and exchangeable bonds) and new secured bonds. Our London and NY insolvency lawyers also advised on various aspects of the deal.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc: Representing in the restructuring of a €140 million structure finance granted in the context of a potential DPO (Debt rePurchase Opportunity) with one of its sponsors in Spain.

Recognition

Dentons achieves excellent rankings in Legal 500 Latin America 2023

October 21, 2022

Legal 500 Latin America 2023 has awarded Dentons 178 quality rankings across the Latin America region. The leading legal publisher recognizes Dentons offices across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (strategic alliance with VPBG), the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Dentons ASEAN sector leader appointments

August 8, 2022

These new ASEAN Sector Group Leaders and Co-Leaders will lead and set the strategic direction for the Sector Groups, in alignment with the ASEAN region and Global Sector Group’s goals and strategies.

Felipe Rencoret is highlighted in Banking and Finance at IFLR1000 2022

May 30, 2022

The English guide to the world’s leading financial and corporate law firms, IFLR1000, has released its 2022 Banking and Finance ranking results.

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Insights

AML enforcement in the UAE

November 18, 2022

United Kingdom: Following the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) decision to add UAE to its "grey list", the UAE agreed to take a number of steps in response. This included a commitment to increase the effective investigation and prosecution of money laundering cases.

Builders’ Lien Act amendments: What lenders need to know

November 15, 2022

Canada: The Alberta Builders’ Lien Act is now called the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act

Regulatory update: greenwashing rules

November 7, 2022

United Kingdom: With an increased awareness of and drive towards environmental sustainability, it was inevitable that customer demand would lead to the highly regulated financial services sector both taking steps to present itself as environmentally conscious and to market products for customers seeking sustainable, green investments.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises German Federal Finance Agency on the placement of a €4 billion Federal Bond

October 20, 2022

Global law firm Dentons advised the German Federal Finance Agency (Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Finanzagentur GmbH) on the successful syndicated placement of a €4 billion Federal Bond (Bundesanleihe) with a maturity of 30 years and a coupon of 1.80%.

Dentons advises lenders on financing for MTEL a.d. Banja Luka

September 27, 2022

Global law firm Dentons has advised UniCredit as coordinator, bookrunner and mandated lead arranger of a €90 million term loan facility for MTEL a.d. Banja Luka. The club of banks providing the facility was comprised of international and domestic banks, including Erste, NLB, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, UniCredit and their local subsidiaries. This transaction represents the first time a loan to a corporate borrower in Bosnia and Herzegovina has combined both international and domestic liquidity via a dual currency euro/convertible mark structure to comply with local regulations.

Dentons advises Komerční banka and Česká spořitelna on up to €715 million Eurowag refinancing

September 23, 2022

Global law firm Dentons advised Komerční banka, a.s. and Česká spořitelna, a.s. in connection with the refinancing of the Eurowag Group. The Multicurrency Term and Revolving Facilities Agreement was signed to refinance and expand the group's existing credit facilities by providing facilities of up to €715 million (out of which €150 million is provided as an uncommitted incremental facility).

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