Ashurst advised Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF) and Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) on the acquisition of 100% of UNITANK Group through a jointly held acquisition vehicle.

UNITANK, a privately-held German-based business, operates six large storage terminals for mineral oil products in Germany and Belgium, with a capacity of 1.1 million cubic metres.

Ashurst advised on the acquisition by DIF and Aberdeen Standard Investments as well as on the financing of the transaction. The acquisition requires antitrust clearance by the EU Commission.

Anne Kleffmann brings experience counseling on a range of complex, high stakes contentious and non-contentious matters.

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Anne Kleffmann will join the Munich office as a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department and member of the Benefits, Compensation & Employment Practice. Kleffmann regularly advises leading companies and private equity firms on a variety of individual and collective employment law matters, with a particular focus on restructurings and reorganizations and M&A.

The arrival of Sean O’Shea, Michael Petrella and Amanda Devereux represents a continuation of Cadwalader’s growth plan and lateral hiring initiative and will expand the firm’s trial capabilities and strengthen its services to financial institutions, corporate and fund clients.

Charles Russell Speechlys’ Dubai office continues to grow since the office opened just over a year ago, with the addition of Thanos Karvelis as partner and a new full service technology, media and telecommunications team led by Mark Hill.

Miriam Harwood has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution (IDR) practice group and as Co-Head of Investment Arbitration, based in New York. She joins from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, where she practiced for over 25 years, specializing in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration.

Ms. Harwood is one of the leading international arbitration practitioners in the world, and alongside partners Luka Misetic and Stephen Anway, creates the nucleaus of a formidable IDR team for the firm in New York.

Hong Kong — Mayer Brown is pleased to announce the expansion of its Corporate & Securities practice with the arrival of Steven Tran as a partner in Hong Kong. Mr. Tran, who was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and was most recently a partner at Hogan Lovells, is an accomplished private equity and M&A lawyer who has been based in Asia for nearly 20 years. He represents private equity funds, major financial institutions and corporations in a wide variety of complex multi-jurisdictional deals throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

DLA Piper announces that White Collar Crime and Internal Investigations lawyer, Emanuel Ballo, will be returning to the firm as partner in March 2019 in its Frankfurt Litigation & Regulatory practice. Emanuel will be joining the firm from Gleiss Lutz, where he was an associated partner since 2015. Emanuel worked at DLA Piper between 2011 and 2015 prior to Gleiss Lutz.

DLA Piper announced that Melainie Mansfield has joined the firm's Corporate practice as a partner who will work from the Chicago office.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has further strengthened its top-tier ranked national Claims Solutions business with the appointment of a new London-based partner, David Johnson. David joins from Weightmans, where he led its Political and Markets Advisory Group for four years.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has further strengthened its top-tier ranked national Claims Solutions business with the appointment of a new London-based partner, David Johnson. David joins from Weightmans, where he led its Political and Markets Advisory Group for four years.

BLM has appointed Stuart Evans as Head of Commercial Litigation for London.

Previously a commercial litigation partner at DMH Stallard, Stuart has substantial experience in representing clients in major disputes in a wide number of sectors. These include contractual claims, intellectual property disputes, boardroom disputes, shareholder claims, partnership disputes, professional indemnity, insolvency, commercial fraud and international asset tracing, jurisdictional disputes and trade defamation disputes.