DLA Piper has advised leading property developers, Jansons Property (Jansons), on the development and sale of the iconic India Buildings site located in Edinburgh Old Town, which is to be developed for luxury lifestyle hotel brand Virgin Hotels. All parties agreed to keep the transaction value undisclosed.
DLA Piper represented Cabinet Group LLC on tax and Norwegian law matters in its joint venture with Funcom N.V., a Norwegian developer, to establish Heroic Signatures, a new company holding and managing the interactive and video gaming rights based on the works of Robert E. Howard and classic Swedish pen & paper and board games.
The case provides clarity on section 24 appeals under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Global law firm Clyde & Co has successfully defended its client, Chevron, at the Supreme Court.
International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has successfully advised a group of vendors which included Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and First Myanmar Investment Company Limited on a reorganisation, spin-off and listing of their tourism-related assets under the Memories Group on the Singapore stock exchange, through the reverse takeover of Catalist-listed SHC Capital Asia Limited (SHC).
International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has successfully advised a group of vendors which included Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and First Myanmar Investment Company Limited on a reorganisation, spin-off and listing of their tourism-related assets under the Memories Group on the Singapore stock exchange, through the reverse takeover of Catalist-listed SHC Capital Asia Limited (SHC).
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Gruppo DentalPro (DP Group S.p.A), Italy's leading dental services provider which is controlled by private equity fund BC Partners, on its acquisition of Italian dental clinic group Doctor Dentist from its founding shareholders.
The White & Case team in Milan which advised on the transaction was led by partners Leonardo Graffi and Iacopo Canino, together with associates Alessandro Seganfreddo and Sara Scapin, and lawyer Mariasole Maschio.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised JSC Siberian Anthracite, a leading producer and exporter of ultra high grade anthracite, on a pre-export financing of up to US$570 million from a pool of international and Russian banks.
The facility will be used for general corporate needs and to refinance existing loans. The mandated lead arrangers included, among others, ING Bank, Banca Intesa, Credit Suisse AG and Sberbank of Russia.
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced that it has advised Madison Energy, a division of Chicago-based Madison Industries, on the acquisition of the Centek Group.
Centek Group specializes in the development of engineering solutions for the world’s toughest casing running environments and is a world leading designer and manufacturer of centralizers, primarily for the oil and gas industry.
Orrick’s Paris team is advising private equity fund Advent International on its acquisition of Circet Groupe, a leader in the French telecommunications infrastructure market.
Advent International has entered into exclusive negotiations with CM-CIC, Circet Groupe’s major shareholder, along with Omnes Capital and the company’s founders and management team.
Our team includes Charles Briand, Margaux Azoulay and Rudy Marouani on tax aspects; and Diane Lamarche, Anne-Sophie Kerfant, Patrick Tardivy and Emmanuel Benard on the management package aspects.
Davis Polk is advising a major creditor and backstop party in the $20 billion restructuring of Brazilian telecommunications provider Oi S.A. Oi’s Recuperação Judicial (a proceeding under Brazil’s bankruptcy law) is the largest court-supervised restructuring ever to take place in Latin America. In addition to the proceedings in Brazil, Oi is also subject to chapter 15 cases in the United States and ancillary proceedings in other foreign jurisdictions.