Slaughter and May advised Goals Soccer Centres plc (“Goals”), a leading operator of outdoor small-sided soccer centres with 48 sites, including two in California, North America, on its strategic 50:50 joint venture with City Football Group (“CFG”), the global football group which owns a number of leading football clubs including Manchester City, New York City and Melbourne City, to accelerate the growth of the Goals brand in North America.

Houthoff advised Media Markt – Saturn on the establishment of a joint venture with Talpa, Juke Nederland B.V. Juke has launched an online on-demand music streaming service offering unlimited access to songs, playlists and radio content.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Bram Caudri , Jan-Paul van der Hoek , Sofie Nijhuis , Jessica den Dekker , Jan Brölmann , Berend Reuder , Jori de Goffau

Baker McKenzie advised JSC Freight Village Kaluga in connection with establishing a joint venture with PJSC Transcontainer. The new joint venture, LLC Freight Village Kaluga Sever, will operate two multi-module transport and logistics hubs in the Kaluga region (Vorsino and Rosva).

The Baker McKenzie team was led by Moscow partner Sergey Krokhalev with key input from associates Alexander Fedotov, Fedor Mukhodanov, Kirill Svetlov and Olga Komleva.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised Prudential Financial, Inc. (“PFI”) in the creation of a joint venture, alongside CT Corp, to provide life insurance solutions to a broad spectrum of people in Indonesia through a multi-channel distribution strategy.c

Under the agreement, which has been approved by the OJK in Indonesia, PFI subsidiary Pruco Life Insurance Company has acquired a 49% interest in CT Corp’s wholly-owned life insurance subsidiary, PT Asuransi Jiwa Mega Indonesia.

Linklaters is advising Stadtwerke München GmbH (SWM) and Bayerngas GmbH on their agreement to combine Bayerngas Norge A/S (Bayerngas Norge) with Centrica plc’s European oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) business to form a newly incorporated joint venture which will become one of Europe’s top five E&P operators.

Advising AREVA in connection with signing of the contract with EDF setting the terms of the entry into the capital of NEW NP of new strategic partners:

– Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (15%)

– Assystem (5%)

AREVA SA Board of Directors has approved binding agreements with MHI and Assystem for the acquisition of an equity stake in New NP.

The two Swiss technology companies BOBST and Radex entered into a joint venture arrangement. The joint venture called Mouvent AG shall refine digital printing technology and develop revolutionary new machines for a wide variety of markets.

Centrica plc, a UK-based international energy and service company, and Stadtwerke München GmbH have reached an agreement to combine Centrica‘s European oil and gas exploration and production with Bayerngas Norge AS to form a newly incorporated joint venture and create a leading independent European E&P company. Centrica will own 69 % and Bayerngas Norge’s existing shareholders, led by Stadtwerke München GmbH and Bayerngas GmbH, will own 31 % of the joint venture.

The M&A team of CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati advised Rentokil Initial plc ("Rentokil Initial") in the formation of a joint venture (the "Joint Venture") with Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH ("Haniel") in Austria, the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. The cross-border deal was successfully closed on 30 June 2017.

Slaughter and May is advising Centrica plc on its agreement with Stadtwerke München GmbH (SWM) to combine Centrica’s European oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) business with Bayerngas Norge AS (Bayerngas Norge) to form a newly incorporated joint venture (Joint Venture) (Transaction) and create a leading independent European E&P company.