Payback time: US firm Shearman & Sterling advised French bank Société Générale on a €4.8bn (£4.4bn) rights issue. The bank will use most of the proceeds to repay the €3.4bn (£3.1bn) of emergency funding given to it by the French state.

Spanish sale: Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised a consortium of private equity funds including RREEF Alternative Investments, Area and Europa Fund, on a €1.2bn (£1.1bn) sale and leaseback scheme for 1,000 bank branches and buildings across Spain acquired from Spanish bank BBVA. Clifford Chance advised BBVA.

Health share: City firm Norton Rose advised stockbroker Numis Securities as sponsor, broker and underwriter on a £60m share placing by ­Primary Health Properties, a healthcare property company. City firm Nabarro advised PHP.

Snackpot: Aldershot, Camberley and Wokingham firm Herrington & Carmichael advised vending machine operator SnackTime on its £1.5m acquisition of MBM Business Systems, the vending machine franchiser. Thames Valley firm Owen White advised MBM Business Systems.

Deal cemented: Magic circle firm Linklaters advised Azerbaijan cement producer Garadagh Cement on a €300m (£280m) financing to upgrade its cement plant. A loan provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will finance new production technology. EBRD was advised by US firm Baker Botts.