作者：金杜律師事務所 King & Wood Mallesons
2016年12月21日（北京時間），由領先的中國企業和機構投資者所組成的財團在金杜律師事務所的協助下，順利完成以24億英鎊的現金價格戰略投資全球領先的歐洲及亞太區大型中立雲數據中心的開發和運營商Global Switch Holdings Limited (以下簡稱「Global Switch」)的交易項目。
21 December 2016 (Beijing Time), advised by King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), a consortium comprised of leading Chinese companies and institutional investors completed its strategic cash investment of £2.4 billion in Global Switch Holdings Limited (「Global Switch」 or 「the Company」), the leading owner, operator and developer of large scale, carrier and cloud neutral data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
投資該項目的財團主要投資者是中航信託、江蘇沙鋼集團。中航信託是由中航資本和新加坡華僑銀行合資成立的資產管理公司，江蘇沙鋼集團是目前中國最大的鋼鐵製造民營企業，並且已躋身《財富》世界500強。
The lead investors and sponsors of the consortium are AVIC Trust, a joint venture asset management company owned by AVIC Capital and OCBC of Singapore, and Jiangsu Sha Steel Group, the largest private steel maker in China and one of the Fortune Global 500 companies.
Global Switch是歐洲和亞太地區領先的大型中立雲數據及多租戶數據中心的所有者、運營商和開發商。
Global Switch is a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier and cloud neutral, multi-tenanted data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
本次交易涉及中國對於歐洲及亞太區公司的收購，需要同時滿足中國、澳大利亞、香港、新加坡和歐洲主要國家（包括英國、法國、德國、西班牙、荷蘭）的法律和監管要求。
The transaction involved a multiple Chinese investors』 acquisition of a company based in Europe and Asia Pacific, and therefore was required to comply with the legal and regulatory requirements of PRC, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and major European countries (including the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands).
在本交易中，金杜全程參與了從前期溝通、收購持股架構搭建、盡職調查、起草文件、財團融資、政府審批、完成交割的整個交易過程。金杜在歐洲和亞太各區域的辦公室團隊通力合作，全程為此次收購項目提供了綜合、全方位的法律服務。
KWM participated in the entire process of the transaction, from preliminary communication, design of the shareholding structure, due diligence, drafting of documents, consortium financing, government approval to the closing. The KWM team in Europe and Asia Pacific worked together to provide comprehensive legal services for this acquisition.
該項目負責合伙人包括北京辦公室馬天寧律師、徐萍律師、何未律師、Jonathan Grant律師、倫敦辦公室的Mark Sanders律師和Laura Brunnen律師、坎培拉辦公室的Malcolm Brennan律師以及法國辦公室的Pierre-Louis Périn律師。團隊成員還包括上海辦公室的資深外國法顧問溫秀慧律師。金杜專業團隊的專業能力和成熟的跨境服務模式受到中國財團一致好評。本交易金額大、交易結構複雜並經過數次變化，對法律服務要求極高，金杜擔任本次交易的獨家法律顧問出色完成客戶交付的各項工作，是金杜全球一體化法律服務的經典案例。
The lead partners include Ma Tianning, Xu Ping, He Wei, Jonathan Grant from Beijing office, Mark Sanders and Laura Brunnen from London office, Malcolm Brennan from Canberra office and Pierre-Louis Périn from France office. The team was also supported by Fiona Wan, the senior foreign legal consultant from Shanghai office. KWM have won high praises from the client for its professionalism and sophisticated cross-border capability. With a large deal value and a complex structure that was altered for several times, the transaction proved to be exacting on legal services. Acting as exclusive legal counsel in the transaction, KWM successfully provided the client with outstanding deliverables that showcased KWM’s globally-integrated services.