Ashurst advised the founding shareholders of Joyou AG, Mr Jianshe Cai and Mr Jilin Cai, on the conclusion of a new shareholders' agreement with the Grohe Group. The aim of the agreement is to build up a stronger cooperation of both companies in order to establish a global market-leading position in the sanitary industry as well as to operate worldwide under the two brands, Grohe and Joyou.
SNR Denton has advised the Department of Energy and Climate Change on its Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Commercialisation Programme Competition, which today announced two preferred bidders from an original field of eight. They are the Peterhead Project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the White Rose Project in Yorkshire, England.
CCS technology, if developed at scale, could allow the safe removal and storage of harmful carbon emissions from coal and gas fired power stations and heavy industry, to help the UK meet its climate change targets.
International law firm Stephenson Harwood has advised Lion Air on the world's largest ever airline order, comprising of 234 Airbus - A320 and A321 aircraft (including Airbus' new NEO aircraft), and valued at US$24 billion.
The order was formalised at a signing ceremony in Toulouse, overseen by the President of France, Mr Francois Hollande.
A team of eight lawyers from international law firm DAC Beachcroft has advised the Finance Wales Group on a number of new funds, which have closed in the past month. The firm was appointed to Finance Wales’ panel of legal advisers in 2012.
DAC Beachcroft advised Finance Wales on the tendering process for the management of the Welsh Government’s new Wales Life Sciences Fund as well as on the contractual arrangements put in place with Arthurian Life Sciences, which won the tender to manage the £100 million fund.
International law firm Clifford Chance has been appointed by the Supreme Committee for Qatar 2022 to advise on its Technical Programme, which includes advising on the development of the main "Iconic Stadium", with a capacity of over 85,000.
Slaughter and May is advising Investec Asset Management, an international, specialist provider of active investment products and services, on an agreement with its senior management, and related financing, for the acquisition of a 15% shareholding in Investec Asset Management for £180 million in cash.
Wragge & Co's commercial specialists have advised new client car2go on the launch of its first flexible vehicle hire scheme in the UK. Already established in Europe, the US and Canada, the new UK scheme marks a further step in the company's growth plans.
Initially, it will start in the London Boroughs of Islington, Newham and Sutton, but with the intention to quickly extend the scheme into other London boroughs and other cities across the UK.
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Energy Development Corporation (EDC), affiliate of First Gen Corp, on conditional contracts for the construction of the 87 MW Burgos Wind Farm in Ilocos Norte, Philippines – the largest wind farm in the Philippines that will generate electricity for more than a million households.
Leeds Lawyer Receives Honour Along With Vince Cable And UK Head of Microsoft
LEEDS-BASED corporate lawyer, Sandip Khroud, has been honoured along with Business Secretary, Vince Cable, for his support in helping to establish the National Asian Business Association (NABA).
NABA, which launched this week at an event at Microsoft’s offices in London, was attended by a host of high profile guests including Steve Pateman, Head of UK Banking at Santander, and the Right Honourable Baroness Prashar of Runneymede CBE.
The new Hong Kong Maritime Museum - opened February 2013
Ince & Co Hong Kong has acted as exclusive legal counsel to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum on its establishment and all operations since its inception as a concept in 2003 to the opening of the Museum in its first premises at Murray House in Stanley in 2004. We have recently advised them on the legal aspects of the Museum’s relocation from Stanley to Central Ferry Pier 8 overlooking Victoria Harbour in the heart of the central business district.