Beacon Rail Metro Finance B.V. signed a share purchase agreement to acquire Mitsui Rail Capital Europe B.V. from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (TSE:8031) on August 7, 2023. As part of the transaction, Beacon Rail Metro Finance will acquire 780,000 shares. The transaction is resolved by the board of Mitsui. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and expected to complete by the end of the fiscal year ending March, 2024. Evercore Inc. acted as financial advisor to Beacon Rail Metro Finance B.V. Maxime Aarts, Joba Akinola, Can Altan, Alice Bailie, Jari Bakx, Doron Bender, Hanneke Bennaars, Tom Betts, Jonathan Bevan, Dennis Budde, Georgina Burrow, Oussama Chraibi, Giovanni Luca Conte, Preethi Correa, Julia Damsteeg, Lara de Jager, Eveline Doffer, Donnelly John, Victoria Druegh, Emil Duffy, Richard Evans, Sara Fegan, Andrew Fincham, Federica Franco, Cathy Gilmartin, Catharina Glugla, Charlie Grainger, Marcus Otto Gruehn, Sven Gunkel, Alex Guy, Tim Harrop, Rachel Healey, Katharina Hillmer, Karin Hoenson-van den Berg, Charles Honée, Michiel A. Huizinga, Rebekah Linton, Shaan Mann, Alan Markgraf, Philipp Martin, Thomas Masterman, Peter McParland, Lise Mitsinga, Kathrin Paetzold-Schwarz, Sara Pickersgill, Freddy Pilkington, Maroussia Quak, Gwen Quarles van Ufford, Barbara Rip, Sophie Roozendaal, Isabel Rutten, Joost Schipper, Maximilian Schlotter, Sebastian Schulz, Fergal Sherlock, Adithyan Sreekumar, Brandon Stockman, Hendric Stolzenberg, Ioannis Thanos, David van Boven, van der Hulle, Christine Waszkiewicz, Nicole Wolters Ruckert, Adham Yassen, Hannah Yeates and Saurav Zangeneh of Allen & Overy LLP acted as legal advisors for Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Thijssen, Jeroen of CLIFFORD CHANCE has acted as legal advisor to Mitsui Rail Capital Europe. Sara Pickersgill, Toby Parkinson, Annette Baillie, James Boswell, James McGivern, Alasdair Balfour, Philipp Gnatzy, Cian O'Connor, Emma L. Flett, Jacqueline Clover and Brett Ackerman of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP acted as legal advisor to Beacon Rail Metro Finance B.V.

Beacon Rail Metro Finance B.V. completed the acquisition of Mitsui Rail Capital Europe B.V. from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (TSE:8031) on September 29, 2023.