TOKYO, April 2017 – A team of Tokyo, Washington, D.C., New York and Singapore lawyers of global law firm Hogan Lovells has advised Exelon Corporation, America’s leading nuclear operator, on the formation of a new 50:50 joint venture with The Japan Atomic Power Company, a pioneer in Japan’s nuclear power industry.
International law firm Trowers & Hamlins is advising Housebuilder Hill on their joint venture with Peabody for two East London projects, with a combined value of over £350m.
Peabody has put its Fish Island Village site into the scheme and Hill have contributed their Lea Bridge Road development in Leyton together bringing nearly 900 new homes.
The firm advised Hill on the initial site acquisition and funding and subsequent joint venture with Peabody. The project also involved two separate affordable housing transactions and tax structuring by Trowers.
International law firm Trowers & Hamlins is advising housing association the Hyde Group on their strategic joint venture with Barratt London, for the development of 1,150 homes in Harrow.
Harrow View East is a 30-acre site within the ‘Heart of Harrow’, which the council has identified as a key area for the regeneration of the borough. Formerly Kodak Industrial Complex, the site already has outline planning permission for a large-scale development.
White & Case LLP has advised Faurecia, one of the world's largest automotive equipment suppliers, on a strategic partnership with Parrot Automotive.
This partnership, which was signed on March 24, 2017, will enable Faurecia to accelerate development of electronic solutions for the connected vehicle, with Parrot Automotive benefitting from new growth opportunities through Faurecia's strategic relationship with its customers.
The German retailers real,- (a distribution chain of METRO Group), Bartels-Langness, Bünting, NETTO ApS, Klaas & Kock, and Georg Jos. Kaes have founded the "RTG Retail Trade Group" with the purpose of bundling central functions. Under the umbrella of this mutual joint venture, the joint purchasing of food, non-food and ultra-fresh products will be combined as well as other functions. METRO Cash & Carry Germany will also pool purchasing volume through the Retail Trade Group.
Falcon Private Bank AG ("Falcon"), a Swiss private banking boutique with 50 years of expertise in wealth management for private clients and wealthy families, has entered into a strategic partnership with Move Digital ("Move"), a best-in-class provider of digital asset management and investment advisory systems.
Hannes Snellman acted as counsel to Oriola Oyj in a 50/50 percent joint venture with Kesko Oyj to establish a chain of health, beauty and wellbeing stores across Finland, with the plan to expand the business to include pharmaceuticals if the legislation is amended.
Our core team comprised Mikko Heinonen, Heidi Haanpää, Annika Salparanta, Valentin Golovanov, Tapani Manninen, Toni Malminen, Panu Siitonen and Tom Jansson.
NETTO ApS formed the "RTG Retail Trade Group" joint venture with real,-, Bartels-Langness, Bünting, Klaas & Kock, and Georg Jos. Kaes effective April 3, 2017. Dr. Christoph Froning, LL.M. and Dr. Stefan Bretthauer from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office comprehensively advised NETTO ApS throughout the process. The Hamburg-based joint venture is intended to strengthen the competitiveness of the six food retail companies on the procurement markets.
Noerr has advised Kieser Training AG on setting up a joint venture together with the Chinese project developer EuroSinoInvest (ESI). This joint venture marks Kieser’s entry to the Chinese market. The first Kieser training studio in China is soon to open in Beijing, and another 20 studios will be established in the Chinese market in the next three to five years.
Kieser Training, which focusses on health-oriented fitness training, currently operates 138 training studios in Australia, Germany, Luxemburg, Austria and Switzerland, either itself or as a franchisor.
Paul Hastings LLP has advised CSC, a global leader in next-generation IT services and innovative cloud solutions, on its investment in, and strategic collaboration with, Virtual Clarity. Virtual Clarity is a UK-headquartered leading provider of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) transformation strategy and leadership, and the agreement will jointly help enterprises accelerate their transformation to leading cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.