Mayer Brown JSM, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that it acted for Trinity Limited in its acquisition of Cerruti Holdings for a total consideration of not more than €52.58 million (HK$538.9 million).

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Project Finance partner Dan Bartfeld, represented BBVA, Banco Espírito Santo de Angola, Crédit Agricole and WestLB in the financing of two 40 MW run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants to be owned and operated by Chilean renewable power firm HydroChile. The power generated from the projects will be sold in part to Chilean utilities AES Gener and Chilectra under long-term power purchase agreements.“The successful financing of these plants demonstrates the continued strength of the renewable energy sector to attract new capital,” commented Mr. Bartfeld. He further noted that “These projects show that well-structured projects continue to attract capital from the leading project finance banks — a trend we expect to continue in 2011.”

Steve L. Camahort, Jeffrey Wolf, Christopher S. Han, Joseph Berkowitz, Christine Huang, Laurence E. Crouch, Steven E. Sherman, Doreen E. Lilienfeld, Tina S. Patel, C. N. Wood, Anil Kalia, Zheng Bao, Meghan Moore, Kelly Karapetyan, Kevin H. Boon.

Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC as dealer managers in connection with tender offers for seven series of outstanding notes issued by El Paso Corporation. The aggregate amount of the consideration paid for the notes accepted for purchase was approximately $800 million. 

Together with global law firm Linklaters LLP, Wolf Theiss has advised Apax Partners on their acquisition of the fashion chain Takko Holding GmbH from private equity firm Advent International.

An Atlanta-based team of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough attorneys recently represented Optimi, a U.S.-Spanish telecommunications vendor of networks optimization and management products and services, in its sale to Ericsson, a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally.

Simpson Thacher is representing The Blackstone Group and N+1 Private Equity in connection with their proposed acquisition of Mivisa Envases S.A.U. (“Mivisa”).  Mivisa, based in Murcia, Spain, is the largest manufacturer of tin cans in Spain and the third largest in Europe.