Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, has advised Facebook on the launch of its Messenger payments service in the United Kingdom and France.
The person-to-person (P2P) service allows Facebook users to send money in a fast, secure and simple way, without needing to directly contact their bank or even leave a Messenger conversation.
The UK and France are the first jurisdictions outside of the U.S. where the P2P service has been made available since the service was launched in the U.S. in 2015.

The corporate structures of the printing and publishing house Niederosterreichisches Pressehaus Druck- und Verlagsges.m.b.H. (NO Pressehaus) have recently been changed. CMS Vienna advised Lower Austria's largest media corporation throughout the entire process of preparing and implementing this reorganisation.

Eversheds Sutherland has acted on behalf of the American University of the Caribbean (AUC) (part of the NYSE quoted Adtalem Global Education group) in the short-term transfer of 1,000 students and staff to the UK, after their Caribbean campus was damaged by Hurricane Irma.

ICBC Financial Leasing Macao Company Limited (“ICBC Leasing Macao Subsidiary”) was officially opened. As a professional subsidiary practically wholly controlled by ICBC Leasing, ICBC Leasing Macao Subsidiary is the first financial leasing company acquiring a financial leasing license in Macao owned by a mainland company since the Macao government announced its efforts to boost featured finance business.

A multi-disciplinary team led by insolvency and restructuring partner Stewart Perry has advised the joint administrators, at FRP Advisory, of Redx Pharma plc in a ground-breaking corporate rescue which has seen Redx returned from administration to the control of its directors.

White & Case LLP has advised the Olympia Group on its transformation from a family-backed corporate group to a fully regulated, transparent, professionally managed global corporation with best-in-class corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, management incentivisation and shareholding structure.

Stephenson Harwood LLP, with its associated Chinese law firm Wei Tu, has advised BUPA UK on the establishment of its first clinic in China.

The team provided regulatory guidance to BUPA, and helped it to obtain the medical license for the clinic, which is based in Guangzhou's central business district. The clinic is equipped with the latest medical equipment, and offers a variety of high quality medical services, ranging from women's health, stress management, gastroenterology, and musculoskeletal health.

Skadden is representing SIGNA Holding GmbH in its $3.5 billion offer for Hudson Bay Company's German business.

Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland advised Nokia Solutions and Networks Sp. z o.o. in establishing a consortium for a tender procedure for PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA concerning the construction of the ERTMS/GSM-R system on railway lines. The multi-billion-zloty project is one of the key modernization projects of the Polish railways and one of the largest projects of this type on the Polish market.

The new Folkwang University on the Zollverein property was inaugurated on October 26, 2017. Additional elements of the construction project such as the RAG headquarters, a hotel, a daycare center, and a business incubator will follow. The team led by Ute Jasper advised NRW.Urban GmbH & Co. KG as a trustee of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the demanding award procedure and assumed designing, preparing, and drafting of the real estate purchase contracts.