Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Resource Capital Fund VII L.P., a US-based private equity fund, in a 35 percent indirect equity acquisition of RG Gold, a gold mining company based in Kazakhstan.

Resource Capital Funds VII L.P. is one of the leading global private equity funds focused on mining projects. Verny Capital, a major Kazakhstan private equity fund, owned RG Gold and remains a majority shareholder.

Dentons advises Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production LLC on sale of stake in Khazzan gas field and project to Petronas

Dentons has advised Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC ("OOCEP"), the exploration arm of the state-owned Oman Oil Company SAOC, on the sale of a 10 per cent stake in the giant Khazzan gas onshore field and project in Oman to Malaysia's Petronas.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised Storengy Deutschland GmbH (“Storengy”) on the sale of its stake in the gas storage facility in Breitbrunn/Eggstätt in Bavaria to Slovakia’s NAFTA a.s (“NAFTA”). In parallel, NAFTA also acquired stakes in the Breitbrunn/Eggstätt, Inzenham-West and Wolfersberg underground gas storage facilities from DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG.

Mark Mansour has joined Locke Lord’s Washington, D.C., office as a Partner in the Firm’s IP Pharmaceutical Practice Group. With more than two decades of experience handling federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory matters, he will strengthen the Firm’s FDA practice both in Washington, D.C., and across the Firm.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce the opening of a new office in Paris, its first in France.

The Parisian team, led by partners Vladimir Rostan d'Ancezune and Christophe Wucher North, will focus on both the global and domestic Insurance and Industrial Risks sector. Vladimir and Christophe have extensive experience of this specialist market and of international work in the UK, Spain, Germany, LatAm, Australia, the USA and Singapore. They join from HMN, a Parisian insurance firm.

Joseph Wetzel brings cutting-edge copyright and music licensing experience to the firm’s world-class Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Joseph Wetzel has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department and the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Wetzel is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading copyright lawyers, with extensive experience in music license rate-setting disputes.

Cooley is expanding its intellectual property team with the addition of Charlie Winckworth, who joins in London as a partner. He arrives from Hogan Lovells.

“Charlie has a well-established reputation in our market,” said Justin Stock, managing partner of Cooley's London office. “His deep IP experience bridges several key practice areas, strengthening our full-service offerings for clients here in London and around the world. We are eager to work closely alongside him.”

DLA Piper has announced that Michael Jay has joined the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology practice as a partner in Los Angeles.

Jay, who will be a member of the Patent Litigation subgroup of the IPT practice, has represented a broad range of clients in jury and bench trials and appellate proceedings, in cases involving technologies such as telecommunication and wireless communication protocols, smartphones, integrated circuits, computer software, ethernet controllers, medical devices, biological products and pharmaceuticals.

Calgary—Dentons is pleased to announce that Brian Kearl has joined the Firm as a partner in our Tax group.

Based in Calgary, Brian’s practice will primarily focus on all areas of tax law, with a particular emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity fund formations and transactions, business reorganizations, cross-border financings and Indigenous business development.

International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed Geoffrey Scardoni as a partner in the firm's leading tax practice in Luxembourg.

Scardoni, who joins today, previously led the Luxembourg tax practice at DLA Piper where he gained extensive experience in tax matters relating to funds and investment structures working for PE firms, asset managers and financial institutions.