The Brussels office of law firm Eversheds has advised Marks & Spencer on the opening of its new store in Brussels, which opened its doors on the 7 May 2015.

Eversheds advised M&S on all manner of operational work, including contract reviews, negotiations with suppliers, obtaining the required licenses for the café and food hall as well as data protection issues.

Established in 1884, Marks & Spencer currently has over 840 UK stores and over 480 international stores across 59 territories in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

DLA Piper represented Coolpad Group Ltd, a Shenzhen-based smartphone maker, on its  joint venture with Qihoo 360, the owner of China's second largest online search engine, which gives Qihoo a 45% stake and Coolpad a 55% stake in the JV. The parties agreed that the JV was valued at US$ 909.05 million, to which Qihoo 360 injected US$ 409 million in cash and Coolpad injected the assets for its Dazen business, which they launched in January 2014.

JT&N is pleased to announce that it represented Bombardier in entering into a comprehensive joint venture contract with Tianjin Airport Economic Area.  The joint venture company was established to support the maintenance, repair, overhaul, associated activities and services for all Bombardier business aircraft and, subject to certain conditions, for Bombardier commercial aircraft.  As an important foreign-invested aviation project in Tianjin municipality, this project highlights Bombardier’s continued expansion into the Chinese market and their commitment to customer&rsq

Shoosmiths has advised laser developer and manufacturer M Squared Lasers on an agreement to develop new technologies with the University of St Andrews.

M Squared Lasers explores, develops and manufactures next-generation lasers and photonic instruments that bring new capabilities, higher reliability and greater ease of use to a diverse range of industrial and scientific applications. The business has more than twenty years of experience in R&D and manufacturing with a track record of award-winning products.

Trowers & Hamlins is delighted to have acted as lead advisers to Breckland Council on a new form of property joint venture, Breckland Bridge Limited with the Land Group LLP.

Trowers & Hamlins is delighted to have acted as lead advisers to Breckland Council on a new form of property joint venture, Breckland Bridge Limited with the Land Group LLP.

DLA Piper has advised US-based On Deck Capital, Inc. on its joint venture with MYOB and a group of local investors to create On Deck Capital Australia Pty Ltd.

Australia is On Deck’s first market outside North America. In expanding to Australia, On Deck has partnered with MYOB and a group of prominent Australian technology investors including Andrew Bassat and Jason Lenga (Seek), Gavin Solsky (Healthshare) and Cameron Poolman (Graysonline).

King & Wood Mallesons advised FremantleMedia in a joint venture with BESTV New Media Co., Ltd. (BESTV) and China Media Capital (CMC). This joint venture will be based in Shanghai Free Trade Zone with the purpose of creating and developing entertainment Format for the Chinese market.

A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, partner at the Cologne office of commercial law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised SeniVita Social Estate AG and its large shareholder SeniVita Sozial gGmbH on establishing a joint venture with Ed.Züblin AG and the intended placement of a convertible bond at Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the total nominal amount of EUR 50 million. The securities prospectus was approved by the Federal Financial Services Supervisory Authority (BaFin).

DLG, one of the largest agricultural companies in Europe, and DCC Energi, Denmark’s largest distributor of Shell energy products, have agreed to combine their energy businesses in Denmark.

The partnership will become one of the leading energy businesses in Denmark, selling a broad range of energy products and services such as diesel, heating oil, marine fuel, lubricants, biofuels, electricity and natural gas throughout Denmark both to existing and new customers.

Dr. Harald Stingl, LL.M. (39), partner at law firm CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati, advised global corporate and high-tech players Infineon Technologies AG and GE Ventures (a unit of General Electric) in entering a strategic partnership with, and becoming new equity stakeholders in, TTTech Computertechnik AG, the Austrian based technology leader in robust network safety controls, as part of a EUR 50m capital increase. The deal completed in March 2015. The capital increase represents one of the most significant private investment rounds in Austria’s high-tech landscape.