Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP ("Freshfields") is advising Getlink S.E. ("Getlink") on the internal reorganisation of its corporate legal structure, which was initiated in 2015 with the removal of two monoline credit enhancers.
Global law firm Clyde & Co has advised French engineering group Egis on its takeover of the operations and management contract for the M40 motorway.
The newly formed Egis Road Operation M40 Ltd took control of the contract from Carillion on April 23 2018.
DLA Piper is acting as regulatory counsel representing T-Mobile US, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom, AG in the announced merger with Sprint Corporation. DLA Piper is also representing T-Mobile in CFIUS and national security matters related to the transaction.
Shearman & Sterling advised Golar LNG Limited in connection with its entry into a Preliminary Agreement, and exchange of a Heads of Terms ("HoT") for a Charter Agreement, with BP Mauritania Investments Limited and BP Senegal Investments Limited, (together "BP") in their capacity as block operators.
Ategrity Specialty Insurance Company ("Ategrity Specialty") is the seventh insurance and reinsurance formation handled by the Firm's New York office under the leadership of Insurance and M&A partner Gary Boss. The New York team continues to play a leading role in structuring a new group of global competitors in the insurance and reinsurance industry.
Clifford Chance advised on the launch of Ategrity Specialty, a specialty property and casualty insurance company that will be focused on the excess and surplus lines market.
DLA Piper has advised on the development and structuring of a new finance scheme to help small states to obtain easier access to international trade finance, which was launched on Tuesday 17 April at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London.
India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Malta have provided $5 million of capital to the scheme, called the Commonwealth Small States Trade Finance Facility. Standard Chartered Bank and the Bank of Baroda are the facility managers.
DWF has advised Inflexion Private Equity in their creation of Comparison Technologies, through the buyouts of Energy Helpline and UK Web Media.
The two businesses were combined to create an independent price comparison site which enables customers to compare prices and identify the best deals for energy, broadband, TV and mobile phone products. The new site is said to be the only independent site in the UK which provides multi-channel price comparison across this range of home services.
The law firms Mazzoni Regoli Carriello Pagni and Baker McKenzie assisted Sky Italia with negotiating an agreement between Sky Italia and Open Fiber for the launch of a fiber service starting from summer 2019. The agreement with Open Fiber aims to "accelerate the growth of fiber and pay TV in the long term," alongside Sky’s existing satellite offer. The accord will give Sky Italia access to the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) ultrafast broadband network Open Fiber is laying in more than 271 Italian towns and cities by 2022.
We acted as a legal advisor for Isännöitsijäpalvelu Oy and Kiirava Oy in their establishment of a joint company, Provia Isännöinti Oy. As a preliminary measure, we assisted our clients in acquiring the rights to the Provia trade name, which had been reserved for another company. After this we ensured the acceptability of the planned transfers of business and carried out the transaction, i.e. transferred the businesses of Isännöitsijäpalvelu Oy and Kiirava Oy to Provia Isännöinti Oy, which will continue the businesses in question.
(Singapore) – Akin Gump is advising Electric Power Development Corporation, the listed Japanese energy company and one of the largest power generators in Japan, better known as “J-Power,” on its participation in a world-first project to produce hydrogen from Australia’s vast brown coal reserves in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria.