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Mayer Brown has hired three partners to its London office, to bolster its leveraged finance and asset-backed lending practice.

Wind Acquisition Finance has issued €2.7 billion ($3.8 billion) of 11.75% senior notes due 2017. The notes are guaranteed by Italian telecommunications firm Wind Telecomunicazioni. Latham & Watkins advised the joint coordinators and lead bookrunners, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Bank IMI. It also advised the syndicate of banks acting as joint bookrunners and co-lead managers. Wind Telecomunicazioni was represented by Dewey & LeBoeuf on Italian law, White & Case on US law and Nauta Dutilh in Luxembourg. The joint global coordinators sought advice from Allen & Overy on Luxembourg law.

Assertions that securitisation is back are premature. New issuance is a continuation of tactics developed to deal with temporary pressures, not a return to normality

David Onorato is joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer after more than five years in house at Bank of America.

Schoenherr has advised Burgenländische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-Aktiengesellschaft (Bewag) on its first capital markets transaction, a €200 million corporate bond listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. Bewag, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich and Erste Group Bank were lead managers. Schoenherr acted as transaction counsel, representing both the issuer and the underwriting banks.

Torys represented China Investment Corporation (CIC) in a $1.5 billion investment in Teck.

Jerry Marlatt is joining Morrison & Foerster from Clifford Chance.

Marshall Stoddard is moving to Dewey & LeBoeuf from Mayer Brown.

A bank consortium led by KfW Ipex-Bank has agreed to an €80 million financing plan to extend the world’s largest biogas park in northern Germany. Sponsors IGB Nawaro and project company Nawaro BioEnergie Park “Güstrow” were advised by Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz and Hammerstein und Partner Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Wirtschaftsprüfer. KfW Ipex-Bank was represented by Clifford Chance in Frankfurt.

Long-awaited documentation released by the Loan Market Association has succeeded in filling the gaps that emerged when Lehmans collapsed