Dentons is pleased to announce that Adam Allouba has joined the Firm as a partner in our Corporate group.

Based in Montréal, Adam's practice is focused on various elements of commercial law, as well as competition/antitrust law. He advises public companies with respect to both transactional and regulatory matters, including private placements, prospectus offerings, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring transactions, privatizations and shareholder meetings. Adam also has particular experience with respect to issuers listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.

Dentons is pleased to announce that Grant MacKenzie has joined the Firm as a partner in our Corporate group.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has strengthened its Corporate and Venture Capital team with the appointment of Robin Eyben, effective from February 1, 2018. He will join the Berlin office as a Partner from Morrison & Foerster.

Robin will work closely with Venture Capital Partner, Nicolas Gabrysch, who will continue working from Berlin. His Berlin team also expects to appoint another Associate in March this year. Employment Partner Dr Anke Freckmann and Senior Associate Sylvia Wörz also moved to Berlin last Autumn.

Peter Wright and Rinku Bhadoria Strengthen International Power Generation, Oil & Gas and Project Finance Capabilities

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Wright and Rinku Bhadoria as partners in the global Energy & Natural Resources Practice Group in London. Mr. Wright was previously a partner at , in its London and Singapore offices. Ms. Bhadoria was formerly a partner in the Global Energy and Resources Group at King & Wood Mallesons in London.

National law firm Weightmans has continued its recruitment drive with the hire of insurance specialist Simon Durkin.
 
Listed as a 'brilliant' key individual in the Legal 500, Simon worked at Fishburns, now DWF, for five years, where he was a Partner in the Global Casualty and Property team prior to joining Weightmans.
 

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised Comsys Financial Leasing (Comsys) on its acquisition and finance leasing of an A380 aircraft to Mauritius-based operating lessor, Veling Group (Veling), with a 12 year operating lease attached to Emirates. Comsys financed its acquisition of the aircraft with a secured loan from a PRC policy bank.

The KWM team was lead drafting counsel on the finance leasing transaction as well as on the secured loan transaction.

Withers has advised the high-profile Mayor of Venice, Italy, Luigi Brugnaro, on the voluntary and innovative creation of what is believed to be the first blind trust-style structure to be established by an Italian politician. Ivan Sacks, Partner and Chairman of the firm, will also act as Trustee for the Brugnaro Blind Trust, which is being established under New York law.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised Westfield Corporation on a A$32.76bn takeover offer by European shopping centre giant Unibail-Rodamco.

The combined group will have gross market value of €61.1bn ($95.43bn), creating a global property giant with 104 assets in 27 retail markets around the world.

International law firm Ashurst has advised Superstrada Pedemontana Veneta S.p.A. on a €1.57 billion bond issue to finance the construction of the Pedemontana Veneta toll road.

The bond issue, which closed on the 29 November 2017, is divided into two tranches: €1.221 billion, variable Rate (EONIA +1% undrawn, 5% drawn) Senior Secured Amortizing Notes due 2047; and €350 million 8% Subordinated Secured Notes due 2027 . Both tranches are listed on the Irish stock exchange in Dublin.

Norton Rose Fulbright has acted as foreign legal counsel to both Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (SD Plantation) and Sime Darby Property Berhad (SD Property) and their affiliates in relation to the listing of the plantation and property business arms of Sime Darby Berhad (the former parent entity of SD Plantation and SD Property) on the Main Market of the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (the stock exchange of Malaysia).