Advising:

• DVB Bank - on the sale of its aviation finance division to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
• ANZ, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered Bank - on the development of an electronic platform, the Trade Information Network, for trade and supply chain finance
• The management team of Janes, a global open-source intelligence provider - on its sale by IHS Markit to Montagu Private Equity
• Vodacom Group Limited - on a joint venture with Safaricom to acquire the intellectual property rights to the M-Pesa mobile financial services platform from Vodafone; on the sale of 100 percent of Vodacom Business Africa's operations in Nigeria, Zambia, Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon to Synergy Communication; and in relation to the sale and leaseback of its tower portfolio in Tanzania to Helios Towers Africa
• Piraeus Bank - on the sale of its Albanian bank, Tirana Bank, to Balfin
• A consortium of nine oil majors, traders and banks - on the development of a blockchain-based energy trading platform
• A global telecommunications company - on the implementation of its Decentralised Digital Identity (DDI) project to provide a platform on which both the company and other partners/parties can run an identity application
• Pay.UK - on the purchase and consolidation of the payments infrastructure bodies in the UK (BACS, Cheque & Credit Company Limited and Fast Payments Limited)
• Orange - in relation to the sale of EE to BT for circa £12.5bn