多年来,佳利律师事务所在多个国家担任纸浆及造纸公司的常年法律顾问,对该行业交易具有丰富的经验。通过多年的实践,我们对该行业及其特定商业及法律事务有了全面的理解。
由于该行业的国际性特征,我们的客户依赖本所在三大洲的16处一体化紧密运作的办公室组成的网络。本所的律师经常就公司、环境、监管及争端解决事宜代表纸浆及造纸行业的各方,客户遍及亚洲、北美、南美及欧洲。在帮助客户设计并购、合营、项目融资以及国际招股及发债交易结构时,本所将带给客户独特的跨国境视角。
该业务的亮点包括:
- Counsel to the ad hoc creditors committee of Aracruz Celulose S.A. in the restructuring of over $3 billion of derivative and bilateral bank debt.
- Counsel to Stora Enso Oyj in the leveraged sale of Stora Enso North America to NewPage, a portfolio company of Cerberus Capital Management, as well as in its split-off of Corenso. We also represented Stora Enso Oyj in its previous €4 billion acquisition of Consolidated Papers Inc.
- Counsel to the Anglo-French paper group Arjo Wiggins Appleton in several matters, including winning an appeal before the European Court of First Instance in a dispute over a fine imposed for alleged price-fixing and market-sharing in the carbonless paper sector.
- Counsel to Shanghai-based Sateri International in the $350 million project financing for the expansion of the Bahia Pulp Mill in Brazil.
- Counsel to Ahlstrom Corporation in various matters, including its €200 million IPO of ordinary shares on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
- Counsel to Zellstoff Stendal in its more than €1 billion financing of a pulp mill—one of the largest-ever industrial project financings in Germany.
- Counsel to Copamex, Mexico's leading producer of paper products, in its expansion of a strategic partnership with European paper company Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget.