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Clifford Chance Badea has advised Green Group in relation to a multijurisdictional financing of EUR 127 million, from a syndicate of banks including Banca Comercială Română S.A., ING Bank N.V., OTP Bank Romania S.A., Raiffeisen Bank S.A. and UniCredit Bank S.A.
Green Group, market leader in waste management, recycling and waste recovery, with operations in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe, will use these funds for refinancing, acquisitions and investments in "green" projects, so as to consolidate and expand its activity in the region.
The Clifford Chance Badea team including Cosmin Anghel, Counsel, Mădălina Mailat, Senior Associate, and Mihai Dolhescu, lawyer, provided advice throughout the whole project, on issues such as deal structuring, drafting, reviewing, negotiating and support in signing of related documents. The financing agreement involved 9 Green Group member companies in 4 jurisdictions.
"We are glad to have successfully completed a project where challenges inherent in such complex financing have overlapped with the truly exceptional economic and social context of the pandemic and the situation in Ukraine," says Cosmin Anghel. "With this transaction for Green Group, a key circular economy player in Central and Eastern Europe, we had the opportunity to once again stand by one of the clients with whom we have a long lasting relationship - Abris Capital Partners investment fund, whom we continue to advise in large and complex transactions such as the notification to the Competition Council of the Dentstore dental products distributor acquisition by Dentotal, the GTS acquisition, the EUR 66 million financing for Green Group, the successive acquisitions in the courier services industry and the sale of Urgent Cargus, as well as the acquisition of Green Group back in 2016."
Clifford Chance Badea has worked with Abris Capital Partners since 2013, advising the investment fund on deals such as
Fully integrated into the global Clifford Chance network, the local Banking & Finance practice covers all types of financing projects; in addition to traditional banking financing projects, the firm provides support as lead advisor in sovereign or corporate bond issues, non-performing debt restructuring, but also debt portfolios transactions. Deals are often advised by multi-jurisdictional teams that generate an optimal mix of local expertise and global know-how. When needed, clients benefit from a full service practice of English and American law. At the same time, the practice has a significant volume of consulting work for banks and financial institutions in terms of regulatory requirements, compliance programs and good practices.
The recent portfolio includes landmark financing projects such as:
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Clifford Chance has been present in Romania since 2006 and operates now as Clifford Chance Badea. The Bucharest office is fully integrated in the global network and is frequently involved in complex transactions such as syndicated loans, project finance, restructurings, Eurobonds and shares issues on international capital markets, derivatives, companies' acquisitions by strategic investors or private equity funds, infrastructure and motorway projects, real estate investments etc., as well as domestic and international litigation and arbitration.