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CMS successfully advises on the revised financing of offshore wind farm Merkur

11/07/2018

Hamburg – The international law firm CMS has advised Merkur Offshore GmbH as project company and its shareholders and investors Partners Group (headquartered in Switzerland), InfraRed Capital Partners (based in the United Kingdom), DEME (based in Belgium), Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie (based in France) and General Electric (based in the United States) in connection with the revised financing of the construction and the operation of the offshore wind farm "Merkur" under a syndicated loan facility of over EUR 1.5 billion. 

The offshore wind farm will have a nominal capacity of 396 megawatt and is being built in the German exclusive economic zone in the North Sea, approximately 45 kilometres north of the island of Borkum.

CMS Germany had already advised Partners Group and InfraRed Capital Partners previously with regard to their investment in the project company and the financing of the wind farm.

Merkur Offshore GmbH was advised on the tax aspects of revising the financing by Stuttgart-based auditing and tax consultants Ebner Stolz. This work included preparation of a tax factbook.

CMS Germany

Dr Marc Riede, Lead Partner
Dr Julia Runge, Counsel
Carl Werner, Counsel
Christian Hermanussen, Senior Associate, all Banking & Finance

CMS Netherlands

Eduard Scheenstra, Partner, Finance

CMS Belgium

Benoît Vandervelde, Counsel
Romain Rolland, Junior Associate

CMS Luxembourg

Vivian Walry, Partner
Nicolas Gerique, Senior Associate
Julien Gerique, Associate, all Banking & Finance

CMS France

Alexandre Delhaye, Partner
Thomas Hains, Counsel
Pierre Bondu, Associate, all Corporate 
Kawthar Ben Khelil, Associate, Public law

CMS England

Danielle Heath, Partner, Corporate
Stephanie Flynn, Senior Associate, Banking & Finance

Merkur Offshore GmbH

Katrin Karpe, corporate counsel

Ebner Stolz

Timo Eggensperger, Partner, Tax (lead)
Kristina Scheibe, Manager, Tax
Aline Klotzbücher, Manager, Tax

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