The London office of international law firm Hunton & Williams has advised Bellzone Mining plc, an iron ore and nickel/copper exploration and development company with assets in Guinea, West Africa, on a US$100M strategic investment by China International Fund Limited and an institutional placing of US$133M. Due to extremely strong institutional demand for the shares the institutional placing was increased from US$100M to US$133M.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Tokyo-based Arysta LifeScience, the world’s largest privately held crop protection and life science company, on the acquisition of a majority interest in Devidayal Sales Limited (DSL), a formulator and marketer of pesticides, agrochemicals and micronutrients for the Indian and international markets. DSL is one of the top ten privately-owned agrochemical companies in India.

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Hutchison Port Holdings and Hutchison Port Holdings Management, the trustee-manager of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust), on the US$5.45 billion offering and listing of units of HPH Trust on the Main Board of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST). The transaction represents the largest ever initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore and South East Asia as well as the largest IPO globally year-to-date.

The Firm represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley Co. Incorporated, in a public offering of 15,081,968 shares common stock by TCF Financial Corporation (“TCF”), including the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option.  Net proceeds of the offering to TCF after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses were approximately $220 million. TCF expects to use the net proceeds of the offering to repay its senior unsecured notes, redeem trust preferred securities upon the occurrence of a future capital treatment event and for general corporate purposes.

Leading global law firm Mayer Brown has been retained by the government of Afghanistan as part of a group of international advisors charged with expediting international investment in Afghanistan’s mineral sector.

International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP announces that its client, Hostelling International USA and its regional affiliate, Hostelling International-New England (HI-New England), have secured funding for the New Boston Hostel, a planned renovation of one of Boston’s historic landmark buildings by leveraging new markets and historic tax credits.

White & Case is legal advisor to the Boards of Directors of Latour and SäkI in connection with the merger of the two companies, both listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.