Dentons’ Public Procurement Team advised Doosan Lentjes Gmbh in a tender procedure for the construction of a flue gas desulphurization and ash distribution installation for Polska Grupa Energetyczna in Pomorzany. We cooperated with the venture partner Polimex Energetyka and assisted in drafting the bid documentation. We also represented the client in a successful appeal brought before the National Appeal Chamber (KIO), which paved the way for the contract going to Doosan Lentjes Gmbh and Polimex Energetyka.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised General Electric (GE) on the sale of its Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF) business in Australia and New Zealand to Wells Fargo.

Listed on the NYSE, Wells Fargo delivers banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial financial services.

The acquisition includes CDF assets, and 123 team members across 5 sites in Australia, along with CDF assets and 7 team members across 2 sites in New Zealand.

DLA Piper has advised AustriaSolar Group on the sale of its subsidiary AustrianSolar Chile Cinco SpA, to SunPower El Pelicano Holding Company SpA, an affiliate of SunPower Corporation.

SunPower Corporation’s majority shareholder TOTAL S.A. is one of the world’s leading companies in the energy sector, active in the field of conventional and renewable energies. The divested company owns a photovoltaic project in Chile (El Pelicano) which has a capacity of 100 MW (AC).

International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW“) successfully advised RWE SUPPLY & TRADING GMBH, a subsidiary of RWE Group (“RWE”), one of the leading energy production and generation companies in Germany, on its admission to the Italian electricity market managed by Gestore dei Mercati Energetici S.p.A. (“GME” – also known as Italian Power Exchange, IPEX).

DLA Piper successfully represented Lumos Solar LLC, a Boulder, Colorado-based solar module company, in an international arbitration dispute with CEEG (Shanghai) Solar Science & Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese producer of solar panels.

On July 19, 2016, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that CEEG cannot enforce a $1.6 million arbitration award obtained from a tribunal sitting in China relating to the sale of defective solar modules to Lumos.

Clifford Chance has advised the Chinese lighting company M.L.S. Electronics Co., LTD (MLS) on the acquisition of OSRAM's business unit Lamps known as LEDVANCE. MLS is part of a Chinese consortium whose other members are the investors IDG Capital Partners (IDG) and Yiwu. The purchase price amounts to more than €400 million. The consortium will finance the purchase price on an all equity-financed basis. The transaction is subject to certain closing conditions and regulatory approval by the relevant authorities. The transaction is expected to close in the course of fiscal year 2017.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Trustpower on all environmental aspects of its proposed A$650 million Dundonnell Wind Farm in western Victoria which recently received planning approval from the Victorian Government.

The project, which will have up to 96 turbines, is developed by Trustpower closely together with landowners who support having wind turbines on their properties.

An arbitral tribunal‎ under the UNCITRAL rules dismissed on 23 June 2016 all claims in their entirety brought by Eni against GasTerra. Eni had brought claims for a reduction per October 2012 of the price of gas sold by GasTerra under its long-term contract with Eni. Eni was ordered to bear the cost of the arbitration as well as a significant part of GasTerra’s costs of legal representation.

DLA Piper has advised Oando PLC (Oando), Nigeria’s leading indigenous energy group, listed on both the Nigerian and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, on a $210 million recapitalisation and partial divestment of its downstream operations. HV Investments II B.V., a joint venture owned by Helios Investment Partners, a premier Africa-focused private investment firm, and the Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent trader of energy commodities, will acquire the equity stake.

The Hong Kong office of Eversheds has advised Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd (Datang Power) on the disposal of its coal-to-chemical business with net assets of RMB7,132 million (US$ 1 billion).