International law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of Greg Golding and Rob Hanley as partners in the corporate team in Sydney.

Greg is one of Australia’s leading public M&A lawyers having been a partner at King & Wood Mallesons for 28 years. He has been involved in many of Australia's most significant mergers and acquisition transactions and specialises in the areas of public M&A and complex corporate transactions.

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Mark Gleeson as a data protection and information rights partner in its London office.

International law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed James Harris as an energy and infrastructure project finance partner.

James has more than 30 years' experience in energy and infrastructure projects and is a market leader in Asia. He will be responsible for further developing the firm's regional projects practice and expanding its capabilities across the energy and infrastructure space, with a focus on project financing and PPPs in Asia.

DLA Piper has announced that Terry Weiss has joined the firm's Litigation practice as a partner in Atlanta.

Weiss represents financial institutions, including broker-dealers, investment advisors and securities industry professionals, in regulatory and enforcement matters, civil litigation and arbitrations and internal investigations. In the enforcement arena, he defends cases before securities industry regulators, including the SEC, FINRA and various state regulators. He also leads internal investigations linked to enforcement matters or litigation.

Ashurst is advising MedicX Fund Limited on its all-share merger with Primary Health Properties Plc (PHP), announced today. Under the terms of the merger, which is intended to be implemented by way of a Guernsey law scheme of arrangement of MedicX, PHP will acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of MedicX in exchange for new shares in PHP valuing the entire issued and to be issued share capital of MedicX at approximately £393 million.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke assisted The Adecco Group with the sale of Adecco Home Services to Fimmus Group. Adecco Home Services provides in home cleaning and light domestic work for private individuals in Belgium as part of a government subsidized scheme that uses service vouchers (the so-called “dienstencheques” or “titres services”) for remuneration. The more than 1300 employees – mainly domestic helpers – involved will continue to work with the Fimmus Group under the brand name Glax.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) advised RIVE Private Investment on the project financing of the Valiente and Sotillo wind parks, with a combined installed capacity of 35 MW, in Zaragoza, Spain. The deal was closed on 16 January 2019, following signing on 27 December 2018.

Both wind parks are owned by Spanish energy Company Villar Mir Energía and are of the “merchant” type, without subsidy or premium. The Sotillo wind farm is under construction and due to be operational in Q1 2020, while Valiente has been up and running since 2018.