A Travers Smith team led by corporate partner Will Howard and including commercial partner Richard Brown, has advised existing client Plumbee in connection with the establishment of Bonza Gaming, a joint venture with Sportingbet plc, which closed on 6 February 2013. Bonza Gaming will look to exploit real money gaming opportunities on social media platforms (including Facebook). The deal marks the latest stage in Plumbee's rapid development since being founded by three former Playfish executives in 2011.

Global law firm Eversheds has advised the University of Gloucestershire on entering in to a joint venture with INTO University Partnerships which will offer international students a wide range of university-validated preparation programmes leading to both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Allen & Overy advised affiliates of China Vanke Co., Ltd., the largest residential real estate developer in China, in its first investment in North America

Slaughter and May advised SVG Capital plc on its strategic alliance with Aberdeen Asset Management plc, creating a leading private equity fund management business with £4.7 billion of funds under management or advice. Aberdeen will acquire a majority stake in SVG Advisers for cash consideration of £17.5 million, and SVG Capital will enjoy on-going income from the business and certain Aberdeen private equity contracts. The transaction is subject to regulatory consent and certain other customary matters and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2013.
 

The Abu Dhabi office of international law firm Clyde & Co has advised Cranleigh School, a leading UK independent school founded in 1865, on the commercial structure and operations for its new campus in Abu Dhabi.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised pan-African resources company Mwana Africa PLC on a Joint Venture Agreement with China’s Zhejiang Hailiang Company Limited (Hailiang) for its 100% owned SEMHKAT copper exploration area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Clifford Chance advised Max Bahr/Praktiker on a cooperative purchasing arrangement with HELLWEG. The companies intend to work closely with each other on procurement matters and to operate a joint purchasing company, DIYCO Einkaufsgesellschaft mbH, in which each of them will have a 50% holding. They intend to create synergies by combining their purchasing power and exploiting logistical benefits.

Wragge & Co's Real Estate specialists have advised Roxhill Developments on its joint venture with Forth Ports Limited to develop the one million square feet London Distribution Park at the Port of Tilbury.

Industrial development company Roxhill has bought a 50% share in the development from Forth Ports for an undisclosed sum. The 70-acre site has outline planning permission for up to 940,000 sq ft of warehouse and industrial space.

Pinsent Masons advises on JV with Roxhill Developments to create 940,000 sq ft of industrial space.

Forth Ports, advised by Pinsent Masons, has signed a joint venture agreement with Roxhill Developments to develop up to 940,000 sq ft of industrial space at the Port of Tilbury in Essex.

Hong Kong: Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised China-ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund (CAF) on its equity investment in International Communication Media Company Limited (ICMC), an offshore holding company with a view to ICMC establishing a joint venture with Supreme Cambo Investment Group Co., Ltd. to invest, build, and deploy the infrastructure for a nation-wide digital television network and to provide digital television services and other digital communication services thereon in the Kingdom of Cambodia.