Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) is advising RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries, on its simplification of its corporate structure from a dual-listed company into a single parent company that will be listed in London, Amsterdam and New York.
Clifford Chance has advised early-stage investor Mainincubator GmbH, a subsidiary of Commerzbank, on a single-digit million Euro seed funding for the Berlin-based software company Lana Labs GmbH.
Lana Labs develops software-based process optimisation tools for financial service providers. Vital legal aspects of the transaction were the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) and IT solutions.
De Brauw served as Dutch counsel in the proposed cross-border merger between two listed companies.
Client name
RELX N.V.
Other parties involved
RELX PLC
Nature of transaction
Deutsch: Orrick berät Deutsche Telekom bei Gründung eines deutsch-amerikanischen Smart Glasses Joint Ventures mit ZEISS
Orrick advised Deutsche Telekom on the creation of a joint venture with the ZEISS Group for the development of innovative smart glasses.
The company, tooz technologies, is based in the U.S. and Germany. Equally funded, the company assumes strategic and operational responsibility for the further evolution of the optical technology invented by ZEISS, and the delay-free connectivity provided by Telekom.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) is advising RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries, on its simplification of its corporate structure from a dual-listed company into a single parent company that will be listed in London, Amsterdam and New York.
Jones Day is acting for NewSat Limited, a formerly publicly listed Australian satellite company, on the instruction of its receivers from McGrathNicol in relation to a claim against NewSat's CEO and Chairman for breaches of directors' duties. NewSat, backed by U.S. and European lenders, was involved in attempting to build Australia's first commercial satellite business and collapsed in 2015 following its entry into and failure to comply with a number of satellite project contracts relating to the construction and launch of an Australian satellite.
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Gide has advised Extérion Média France on the dispute regarding the temporary service concession for the operation of street furniture displaying general or local information, as well as advertising, to Somupi, a company of group JC Decaux.
De Brauw served as Dutch counsel in the proposed cross-border merger between two listed companies.
Client name
RELX N.V.
Other parties involved
RELX PLC
Nature of transaction
Deutsch: Orrick berät Deutsche Telekom bei Gründung eines deutsch-amerikanischen Smart Glasses Joint Ventures mit ZEISS
Orrick advised Deutsche Telekom on the creation of a joint venture with the ZEISS Group for the development of innovative smart glasses.
The company, tooz technologies, is based in the U.S. and Germany. Equally funded, the company assumes strategic and operational responsibility for the further evolution of the optical technology invented by ZEISS, and the delay-free connectivity provided by Telekom.
Clifford Chance has advised the Deutsche Glasfaser Group on its refinancing of 650 million EUR.
Refinancing serves to further expand the fiber-optic infrastructure in Germany, especially in rural areas. The expansion of broadband coverage is an important requirement for the increasing digitization of the economy and society.