Dentons has advised Oman’s Bank Dhofar on the establishment of its $500 million Euro Medium Term Note programme listed on the Irish Stock Exchange, with Allen & Overy and Trowers & Hamlins’ Oman office advising the arrangers and dealers on the transaction.
The programme was arranged by the National Bank of Abu Dhabi and HSBC, with Bank ABC, Crédit Agricole CIB and BNP Paribas acting as dealers.
The Dentons team was led by Dubai partner Alex Roussos and Muscat partner Sadaf Buchanan.
Dentons has advised Singaporean real estate company Mapletree Investments on its one-billion-pound agreement ($1.25 billion) to acquire 8,192 student housing beds across 19 cities in the UK and Germany from Cuscaden Peak Investments, which was advised by CMS, Eng and Co, and Carey Olsen.
Global law firm Dentons has expanded its debt finance and investment funds capabilities with the addition of Charles Yim as a partner in Hong Kong. Yim was previously a partner at local firm Gallant.
Dentons and Australian law firm Allens have separately unveiled proprietary versions of ChatGPT, the large language model-based chatbot released by OpenAI last year.