Berenberg Alternative Asset Fund, fund of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Investment Arm and ORIX Corporation (TSE:8591) acquired shipping performing loan portfolio from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE:RBS) for $460 million on September 5, 2017. Clemens Hillmer, Yilmaz Ata, Christian Hermanussen, Lucy Shtenko and Alexander von Grofe of Watson Farley & Williams and Patrick Cichy, Alexander Glos, Arne Krawinkel, Maximilian Lang, Kristina Ostertag, Jan Brinkmann and Sandra Auer of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and Watson Farley & Williams acted as legal advisors to Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG. Jon Howells, Ed Matthews, and Peter Ahlas of Park Partners acted as financial advisor to Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG.

Berenberg Alternative Asset Fund, fund of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Investment Arm and ORIX Corporation (TSE:8591) completed the acquisition of shipping performing loan portfolio from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE:RBS) on September 5, 2017.