Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Enterprize Energy Pte. Ltd. (“EEPL”) on its strategic joint venture investment agreements in the Taiwanese offshore wind sector with Japan’s Mitsui & Co (“Mitsui”). As part of the agreements, Mitsui has acquired a 50% stake in EEPL subsidiary Yushan Energy Company Ltd (“YECL”), which owns a 40% interest in the Hai Long offshore wind development in the Taiwan Strait between that Island and mainland China.

Jones Day advised Jones Lang Lasalle Incorporated’s subsidiary LaSalle Investment Management on its agreement to acquire the entire Real Estate Multi-Manager (“REMM”) business of Aviva Investors and full ownership of the management of the Encore+ fund (“Encore+”). Aviva's REMM business has $7 billion (€6.05 billion) of assets under management. Encore+, an open-ended Continental European real estate fund, currently has a gross asset value of $ 1.967 billion (€1.7 billion).

Baker McKenzie has successfully assisted its longstanding client, Mars Australia in signing a 20 year power-purchase agreements (PPA) with Total Eren to generate the equivalent of 100% of Mars’ electricity from renewable energy by 2020.

Total Eren is developing and will build the Kiamal Solar Farm near Ouyen, Victoria which will be operational in mid-2019 and will add solar power to the national grid. The Mars PPAs will also facilitate the planned build of a second renewable project by Total Eren in NSW.

International law firm Ashurst advised Cell C Ltd (Cell C), South Africa's third largest mobile phone operator, on its far-reaching roaming agreement with MTN South Africa, the South African subsidiary of MTN Group Ltd (MTN).

The M&A team of Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland supported the Eversheds Sutherland UK office in the preparation and organisation of the documentation of the Polish company John Guest Polska Sp. z o.o. in connection with the sale of John Guest Holdings based in the United Kingdom.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised the shareholders of John Guest Holdings – a leading British engineering company with a global reach – on its £687 million sale to Reliance Worldwide Corporation (RWC). The transaction was announced on 24 May.

King & Wood Mallesons’ cross-border team advised Weichai Power ("Weichai") one of China’s leading automobile and equipment manufacturing companies, with a market capitalization around ¥ 85 billion, producing 600,000 engines per year, on its entering into equity investment and framework agreements with AIM listed Ceres Power, a world leading developer of fuel cell technology including its unique patented SteelCell® technology.