

Jones Day Advises Biobest-Biotrop Deal
Davis Polk, Simpson Thacher, White & Case advise Brazil, Mexico offers.
Jones Day is representing Biobest Group NV, a Belgian developer of biological crop-protection products in its capital and debt raise for the $559 million acquisition of Brazilian biological and natural farming solutions provider Biotrop; White & Case advised Mexican governmental development agency FEFA on a $307 million bond issuance; Simpson Thacher represented the placement agents in connection with the $124 million follow-on equity offering by Brazilian retailer Grupo Casas Bahia and the initial purchasers on the Dominican Republic’s $1.25 billion offer and Davis Polk advised beef shipper Minerva’s $100 million offer.
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