WBD has appointed Simon Beckwith and Mark Ratcliff as partners in the firm's London office, joining WBD's growing national insurance claims team.
Simon and Mark both join from London insurance firm Plexus Law, where they were both partners.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP (“Freshfields”) has announced that Andrew (“Andy”) J. Ewalt, former Counsel to the Director of Litigation of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”), has joined as a partner in the firm’s global antitrust litigation practice. Andy’s appointment will bolster the firm’s US antitrust litigation offering in Washington, DC and follows the arrival of leading US antitrust litigator Eric Mahr from the DOJ in February of this year.
Leading business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of William Dillon-Leetch as a Partner in the firm’s Corporate team.
William’s practice includes mergers & acquisitions, corporate advisory work, fundraisings, venture capital, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and IPOs. He advises a broad range of domestic and international clients in the energy, pharmaceutical, technology, finance, aviation and real estate sectors.
London — Mayer Brown has advised Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (acting in a consortium with its partner, Sumitomo Corporation) on the acquisition of a 30 percent indirect interest in Compañia Minera Teck Quebrada Blanca S.A., which owns the Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) project, from Teck Resources Limited for $1.2 billion.
The QB2 project is the second phase of the Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile.
We advised EQT Fund Management S.à r.l. on regulatory and legal aspects of the setting up, structuring and closing of its second European direct lending fund, EQT Mid-Market Credit II, based in Luxembourg, focusing primarily on providing financing to mid-market companies that have a significant proportion of their earnings, revenues, operations or assets located in Europe.
We also assisted EQT on the setting-up of several entities which are part of the investment platform, as well as co-investment vehicles investing alongside MMCII.
We advised Greencoat Renewables on its acquisition of two wind farms from Blackrock in a transaction valued at €88 million.
Greencoat has grown its portfolio almost three-fold over the past 12 months. Other transactions we have advised on this year include the acquisition of a 48.3MW wind farm in Co.Cork in October for €61.3 million, the acquisition of Knaocknalour wind farm in September for €10.9m, the acquisition of Lisdowney in February, the acquisition of Dromadda More in April and on its €11m share placing in August.
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International law firm Ashurst has advised Crystalbrook Collection Hotels and Resorts (Crystalbrook), the leisure and accommodation arm of GA Group Australia, on the acquisition of the Little Albion boutique hotel in Sydney's Surry Hills suburb.
The Little Albion boutique hotel is one of Australia’s newest boutique hotels, developed and designed by Paul Fischmann, founder and owner of 8Hotels. The 35-room hotel is in a heritage building constructed in 1903 as a school convent which has been transformed into a modern guest house, merging old and new.
The Corporate team at Charles Russell Speechlys has advised longstanding client, the Civica Group, a market leader in business-critical software, digital solutions and managed services for the public sector and regulated markets, on its latest acquisition of specialist e-recruitment software provider Trac Systems Limited and its subsidiary Zedcore Systems Limited.
Clifford Chance has advised Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate on the sale of an office property with a total lettable area of around 6,750 m². The property is located in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt. The purchaser is Union Investment. The parties have agreed not to disclose any details of the purchase price.
The single-tenant building was completed in 2014 and initially acquired on behalf of a pan-European special AIF. The lease with IT provider Dimension Data runs until 2024.
The property company Halmtorvet 29 A/S, which is engaged in the investment and development of residential and commercial properties, has sold the new Scandic Hotel situated in the Copenhagen Meatpacking District to Norwegian KLP Eiendom AS.
The transaction value was approx. DKK 610,000,000.
Scandic Hotel has a gross floor area including basement of approx. 23,000 square metres and has 370 rooms, a restaurant/bar, conference centre, fitness facilities, etc.