In connection with its underwritten public offering of depositary shares representing fractional interests in its 7.375% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, K&L Gates LLP provided advice to multi-state bank holding company WesBanco, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSBC), which resulted in $230 million in gross proceeds for WesBanco.

Akin helped Metalor Technologies, a major player in the worldwide precious metals market with its headquarters in Switzerland and a member of the TANAKA group of enterprises, finalize a deal to buy Gannon & Scott, a well-known supplier of precious metal recovery and refining services in North America.

The move of Akin’s Abu Dhabi office to Al Maryah Tower, situated in Abu Dhabi Global Market Square on Al Maryah Island, was announced today.

Bain Capital Special Situations, L.P., a prominent provider of capital solutions, received advice from Akin’s global capital solutions team regarding GGAM Master Trust’s historic $1.245 billion fixed-rate note offering and “E Note” issuance by its recently formed securitization platform for mid-life commercial aircraft. This deal establishes a new standard in aviation finance and is the…

Akin provided Coller Capital and Apollo S3 with advice regarding the historic deal that CVC Capital Partners made with Ahlsell, a distributor of industrial technical supplies in the Nordic region.

In order to build, own, and run the Southern Illinois Connector project—a new 24-inch crude oil pipeline that will link the Platte Pipeline near Wood River, Illinois, to the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (ETCOP) near Patoka, Illinois—Akin counseled Energy Transfer LP on the establishment of a strategic joint venture with Enbridge Inc.

The expansion of Akin’s sponsor-side private equity and M&A business has been further accelerated with the announcement today that Dan Oates has joined the firm as a private equity partner in London.

The closing of a SAR 6.5 billion (USD 1.73 billion) green financing for AMAALA, a luxury wellness destination on the Red Sea coast and a crucial part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 tourism strategy, was advised by Akin to Red Sea Global (RSG), a fully owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Merck is receiving advice from Gibson Dunn over its $9.2 billion purchase of Cidara Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology business that creates drug-Fc conjugate (DFC) therapies.

Dentons is still the biggest tenant in the complex after extending its office contract at Elektrownia Powisle for a further seven years, until October 2033.