The Gide team advised MEDI-system (a company from the Orpea Group) on the acquisition of the "Angel Care" Elderly Care Facility in Wroclaw, from Angel Poland Group, finalised on 2 January 2018, and on the acquisition of the Ostoya Care Facility in Stare Babice near Warsaw from Allenort Capital Fund, finalised in December 2017.
DLA Piper has advised Catella Real Estate AG on its acquisition of an office property in Stuttgart for the special fund IWS II, from German Property AS, based in Oslo, Norway. The building in Stuttgart-Feuerbach has office space of approximately 10,600 square metres, and its main tenant is Robert Bosch GmbH.
The second Catella special fund, focussing solely on Southern Germany, manages four properties. Investors in the fund include pension funds, pension-scheme companies and savings banks, and the target equity ratio is 150 million euros.
Hamburg – Long-established shipping company John T. Essberger has acquired Crystal Nordic, a Denmark-based operator of 14 chemical tankers. The vendors are Nordic Tankers and Embarcadero Maritime.
A CMS team headed by Dr Christian v. Lenthe and Dr Marc Riede advised John T. Essberger on all legal aspects of the transaction. On the Danish side, CMS Germany cooperated with Danish law firm Kromann Reumert. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Shearman & Sterling represented The Bank of Nova Scotia in connection with its registered offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.5% senior notes due 2021 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of floating rate senior notes due 2021.
The Bank of Nova Scotia is Canada’s international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and parts of Asia, offering a broad range of advice, products and services to its approximately 23 million customers around the world.
Thomas Hey, a high-profile employment lawyer, has joined Bird & Bird as a partner in Düsseldorf, along with a team including three associates from Clifford Chance in Düsseldorf, Dr. Artur-Konrad Wypych, Leonie Isabelle Pfeufer and Hagen Sporleder as well as trainees and research assistants.
Hogan Lovells announces today that Christine Rodrigues has joined the firm as a partner in the Johannesburg finance practice. She joins from Norton Rose Fulbright, where she has served as a Director since 2013.
Rodrigues has over 15 years of experience in insurance and is well-known in the growing African insurance sector. Her focus on insurance has led to her advising many of the region’s largest insurance businesses, most recently on the liquidation of SaXum.
White & Case LLP has hired a mergers and acquisitions partner in London whose practice encompasses financial services and private equity among other sectors from Linklaters LLP.
Daniel Turgel joins White & Case’s global mergers and acquisitions practice on Jan. 22, and will advise clients on public and private M&A, joint ventures and broader corporate matters. He has clients in sectors including financial institutions, technology and real estate, White & Case said.
Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the addition of Uri Doron and Jared Manes, two corporate partners in New York. Uri and Jared join from Jenner & Block and focus their practices on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on Nordic-based companies doing business in the United States.
Simmons & Simmons has announced the establishment of a new patent prosecution group, following the recruitment of Kevin Cordina, a patent attorney from CMS.
During his 11 years at Olswang (now CMS Law), Kevin worked with a wide range of clients from start-ups to multi-nationals, with a particular focus on technology, telecommunications and medical devices. Unusually, for a patent attorney, a large portion of his practice has been in contentious matters.
International law firm Pinsent Masons has enhanced its international arbitration (IA) expertise with the appointment of Jean-François Le Gal as partner in its Litigation, Regulatory & Tax team.
An experienced IA lawyer, Jean-François joins from Brown Rudnick, and will split his time across Pinsent Masons' London and Paris offices where he will join the firm's team of IA experts across the energy, construction and technology sectors. He will also spend some time in the Middle East.