Paul, Weiss client Mott MacDonald Group, a leading global management, engineering and development consultancy group headquartered in the U.K., unwound its joint venture with Hatch, a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy group headquartered in Canada. The Hatch Mott MacDonald joint venture was founded in 1996 to provide engineering and professional services to the North American infrastructure market and grew into a major engineering and infrastructure business throughout the United States and Canada.

Roschier acts as the sole counsel to Nokia in a licensing deal that will see the NOKIA brand return to the mobile phone and tablet markets on a global basis.

Under a strategic agreement covering branding rights and intellectual property licensing, Nokia Technologies will enter into an exclusive global license with HMD global to create Nokia-branded mobile phones and tablets for the next ten years.

DLA Piper has advised the Bancobet Group, a fully integrated technology company in the gaming industry  headquartered in Gibraltar, on the consolidation of its business operations with the Digibet Group; a group of companies in the gaming industry. A joint venture company is being founded for this purpose which will operate under the name, 'United Game Tech'.  and is based in Malta. The newly created group combines the companies of the Digibet/Bancobet Group in order to assume a leading role in the gaming industry.

On March 24, 2016, Guthy-Renker LLC entered, subject to merger control clearances and other customary closing conditions, into a joint venture agreement with Nestlé Skin Health S.A. by which Nestlé Skin Health S.A acquired a majority stake in Guthy -Renker. The joint venture focuses on the global consumer acne market and unites Guthy-Renker’s consumer insights and digital expertise under the world’s leading non-prescription acne brand "Proactiv" with Nestlé Skin Health’s science-based innovation and expertise in skin health.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised Eagle View Technologies, Inc. on its entry into a series of licence, royalty and equity investment agreements with ASX-listed Spookfish Limited. EagleView is owned by Vista Equity Partners, a leading private equity firm with focused investments in software, data and technology-enabled companies.

Haldex and VIE Science and Technology has entered into a joint venture agreement with the aim of designing, developing, producing and selling electromechanical brake systems for commercial vehicles with an initial focus on the electrical bus market in China.

According to the agreement Haldex and VIE will set up a joint venture where the parties own 50 % each. The joint venture company will operate under the name Haldex VIE (Kina) Electro Mechanical Brake Systems Co, Ltd, and be based in Shanghai, China.

Jones Day represented DV4 Limited, which is advised by Delancey Real Estate Asset Management Limited, in connection with the formation of a £1.4 billion (US$2 billion) joint venture with APG Asset Management NV and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co., to create a home rental business in London, with properties in the former Olympic athletes' village and the Elephant & Castle district. The venture, which is subject to regulatory approval, will manage 4,000 homes, of which 1,500 are already built and 1,000 are under construction.

Allen & Overy is advising private equity fund PAI partners (PAI), owner of R&R Ice Cream on its 50/50 joint venture with Nestlé to form a new entity which will be called Froneri.

The joint venture covers more than 20 markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America and the Philippines, and will employ more than 15,000 people.

Linklaters has advised PSP on the termination of the Isolux Infrastructure joint venture with Isolux Corsan.

CMS’ Rio de Janeiro office has assisted Munich-headquartered company, CTS Eventim, on its international joint venture arrangements with Sony Music Entertainment. CTS Eventim, one of the world’s leading ticketing and live entertainment companies, aims to consolidate its position as a market leader in Brazil during the next 12 months, and then use the joint venture as a platform to expand across South America.