Green deal: City firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert advised Dutch banking and insurance services provider SNS REAAL, UK investment and financial services group Alliance Trust Plc and the Universities Superannuation Scheme, which provides pensions to academic staff, on their investment in Climate Change Capital Group Ltd (CCC), a UK-based investment banking and fund management business that advises and invests in companies that help combat global warming. The three new investors, in addition to Mitsui & Co, advised by magic circle firm Freshfields, invested £56m and together will own over 50% of CCC, which was advised by City firm Norton Rose.


Primary deal: City firm Trowers & Hamlins advised the London Borough of Barnet on a £200m school refurbishment and rebuilding scheme, as part of a £7bn government project to improve 9,000 of England’s primary schools over the next 15 years.



Fragrant deal: City firm Olswang advised private equity firm Primary Capital on its £20m acquisition of luxury toiletries supplier Pacific Direct from founder Lara Morgan, advised by Los Angeles firm IMW Law.



Silver deal: Magic circle firm Linklaters acted on the demerger and listing of silver producer Fresnillo on the London Stock Exchange.



Cool deal: Magic circle firm Allen & Overy advised financial services firm Morgan Stanley, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Standard Chartered Bank on the issue by the UAE’s district cooling services provider Tabreed of the first sharia-compliant, AED1.7bn (£235m) mandatory exchangeable sukuk issue. Tabreed was advised by magic circle firm Linklaters.



Energy deal: City firm Memery Crystal advised oil exploration company Chariot Oil & Gas, which holds a number of oil and gas exploration licences in Namibia, with a share issue on AIM, which raised £45m.



Housing deal: Hitchin firm Foreman Laws advised national house builder Bellway in its £27.5m purchase from Dixon Group of a 20-acre brownfield site in Stevenage, with planning consent for 386 homes. Denton Wilde Sapte acted for Dixon Group.



Technology deal: South-west firm Osborne Clarke advised enterprise marketing management software provider Alterian on its £18m takeover of AIM-quoted Mediasurface, the web content management provider, advised by City firm CMS Cameron McKenna.



James Dean