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Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice advises Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers has been adviced by the firm to enter an agreement to acquire Epocal Inc., a subsidiary of Alere Inc. Epocal Inc.which develops and provides point-of-care blood diagnostic systems for healthcare enterprises, including the epoc® Blood Analysis System, a handheld, wireless testing solution. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed.
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Macquire Capital acquires Norte III power plant in Mexico

Macquarie Capital together with Techint, today announced the completion of the acquisition and financing of Norte III, a 907MW combined-cycle gas plant, under construction near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The Project was acquired from Abengoa S.A. and its affiliates, and will remain contracted with the Comisión Federal de Electricidad ("CFE"), under the same scope and power price agreed on the awarded contract. The Project has received broad-based financing support, with the Macquarie Capital-Techint Consortium securing new funds from ten different financial institutions. SMBC and Natixis served as Coordinating Lead Arrangers; Bancomext, Crédit Agricole, GE, EDC, Norinchukin Bank, KDB, KfW, and Intesa…
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Veirano Advogados on telecoms investment

Veirano advises Cartesian Capital, a private equity firm from New York, on its acquisition of minority stake in Aloo Telecom in Brazil. We understand the deal was valued at $75 million. Aloo was advised by TozziniFreire.
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Financing of Peru’s metro

Clifford Chance advised Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation on the US$396 million financing for the expansion of the Line 1 of Lima's metro. Line 1 will make improvements to civil infrastructure and rolling stock, including trains and cars that will be designed, built, operated and maintained by the concessionaire GyM Ferrovías S.A., owned by Graña y Montero S.A.A. and Ferrovías as Participaciones S.A. Clifford Chance previously advised on the financing of Line 2 of the Lima and Callao Metro project in Peru, which was the largest international financing of a Peruvian infrastructure project. Partner Gianluca Bacchiocchi led the team…
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Mexican renewable energy financings

Norton Rose Fulbright New York and Mexico City offices advised lenders: Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), acting on behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group; the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG); and Mexican development banks Banobras and Bancomext in the US$230 million financing of the development, construction and operation of three major renewable energy projects. The projects, all based in Aguascalientes, Mexico are 150 MW Solem One and 140 MW Solem Two solar PV projects. The projects are sponsored by Cubico Sustainable Investments Limited and Alten R.E. Developments America B.V.
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