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Zijin Mining, one of China's biggest gold producers and the second biggest producer of copper ore, won the tender to become a strategic partner in Serbia's sole copper complex RTB Bor. The Chinese company pledged to invest USD 1.46 billion in return for a 63% stake.Karanovic & Partners advised Zijin Mining in this privatisation procedure ...

Zijin Mining, one of China's biggest gold producers and the second biggest producer of copper ore, became a major shareholder of the Serbia's sole copper complex RTB Bor. The Chinese company pledged to invest USD 1.46 billion in return for a 63% stake. Karanovic & Partners advised Zijin Mining in this privatisation procedure ...

On March 13, 2018, Frutarom reached an agreement with the shareholders of Meroar S.A. and Meroaromas S.A. in connection with the acquisition by Frutarom of a stake in these companies, representing 70% of the capital stock and votes for a purchase price of US$11,200,000. Frutarom is one of the world's 10 largest companies in the field of flavors and natural specialty fine ingredients. The group is expanding worldwide with the strategy to develop global activity in the field of fragrances ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Zachary P. Martin has joined the firm’s Birmingham office as an associate in the Litigation Practice Group. “We are excited to welcome Zach to the Birmingham office, and are proud to continue growing the firm with such talented attorneys during the current environment,” said Bradley Birmingham Office Managing Partner Dawn Helms Sharff. Mr ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added Zachariah (Zach) A. Johnson as an associate to the firm’s Cincinnati office. He will practice out of the corporate department, focusing on tax, benefits and wealth planning. “I am excited about my move to Dinsmore,” said Johnson. “The firm’s name itself says a lot, however, the people make it. I am looking forward to this new opportunity and ready to get working with the tax group ...

Yvonne Brady, Head of Restructuring and Business Advisory at Shepherd and Wedderburn, was last night named Best Professional in Business at the Scottish Women’s Awards 2019 ...

Pittsburgh — Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC (Spilman) announced that Stephen D. Yslas, who serves as Senior Advisor to the law firm, recently received the Ohtli Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs to individuals or organizations that have worked to empower the Mexican diaspora and helped to open a path for future Mexican-American and Hispanic generations ...

Buenos Aires, June 6, 2019. On May 9, the operation through which YPF Ventures obtained a strategic stake in Sustentator S.A. closed. YPF Ventures is a YPF vehicle which seeks to diversify the company’s energy-related businesses and boost its local innovation. YPF Ventures will position itself in a new field for YPF, as a tool to generate innovation, either by incorporating already-proven global technology or developing at start-up level ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has added Young-Eun Park as an associate to the firm’s Louisville office. Park will practice out of the commercial litigation practice group. Park joins Dinsmore from Bingham Greenebaum Doll, where she focused her practice on business, employment, tort, bankruptcy, immigration, and estate disputes. She has litigated a variety of sophisticated litigation matters before the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals ...

YKVN advised Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund and Eastbridge Partners in a US$30 million Series C funding round in POPS. POPS is a top kids' media and entertainment platform in Vietnam. It received $7 million of previous financing, including Series A funding from Japan's IT-Farm and Series B backing from Warner Media LLC (formerly known as Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific) ...

YKVN advised Masan Group Corporation (“Masan”) in its investment in Trusting Social JSC, a Singapore and Vietnam-based credit scoring startup (“Trusting Social”). The US$65 million investment is implemented through The Sherpa Company Limited, a subsidiary of Masan for the initial close of its Series C round ...

YKVN advised Masan Group Corporation (HOSE: MSN) as sole counsel in relation to its acquisition of the Vingroup’s retail and agriculture units – VinCommerce and VinEco through share swap. The Vingroup’s retail and agriculture units – VinCommerce and VinEco are transferred to MSN and together with MSN’s subsidiary – Masan Consumer Holdings will be the country’s biggest retail group ...

World Services Group (WSG) is pleased to announce that YAMADA Consulting Group Co., Ltd., a specialty consulting and investment firm, has recently joined the WSG network as an Investment Banking member for Japan. YAMADA Consulting Group Co., Ltd. (YCG), founded in 1989 and now publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section (TSE: 4792), is one of Japan's largest independent consulting firms ...

Our Partners, Adedapo Tunde-Olowu SAN and Theophilus Emuwa have been recognised by Who's Who Legal (WWL) as Thought Leaders in Africa. Theo and Dapo are also ranked Global Leaders by WWL. This recognition reflects their outstanding work, robust cross-disciplinary experience and excellence in client service ...

A team led by Dr. Kai Bandilla and Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, both partners at the Hamburg office, advised Hesse-based WV Energie AG and Stadtwerke Bad Vilbel on the sale of project company KNK Wind GmbH for the planned Arcadis Ost 1wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The buyer is Belgian project developer and offshore wind farm operator Parkwind. The reason for the transaction was the contract awarded for the Arcadis Ost 1 project at the second German offshore wind auction ...

Globally operating Chinese group WuXi Biologics completed the acquisition of a drug substance facility from Bayer AG in Wuppertal. Closing took place in Cologne on April 30, 2021. A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, and Michael Pauli from the Cologne office of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek legally advised the Chinese group on the acquisition ...

A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach advised the globally active company WuXi Biologics on the acquisition of a sterile filling and freeze-drying plant from Bayer AG. The plant is designed for the filling and freeze-drying of the blood-coagulation medication Kovaltry®. The plant will be operated on the premises of the Chempark in Leverkusen. For this purpose, a long-term sublease agreement for the use of the building was concluded ...

A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, and Michael Pauli from the Cologne office of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek provided legal advice to WuXi Biologics, a global company with leading open-access biologics technology platforms, on the acquisition of a drug substance facility from Bayer AG. The signing took place on December 21, 2020. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory assessment, is expected to close in the first half of 2021 ...

Dear valued clients, colleagues and friends, Shearn Delamore & Co. is pleased to announce that two of our partners from the Intellectual Property Practice Group, Karen Abraham (Head) and Indran Shanmuganathan, have been recognised by the World Trademark Review (“WTR”) in the 2021 WTR Global Leaders: Private Practice ...

Dear valued clients, colleagues and friends, We are pleased to announce that Shearn Delamore & Co. has been ranked Gold Tier yet again in the Intellectual Property practice by the WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2022. All our IP Partners, Karen Abraham, Indran Shanmuganathan, Timothy Siaw, Jyeshta Mahendran, Janet Toh and Michelle Loi have been duly recognised in their respective expertise. Quotes “Shearn Delamore & Co consistently delivers world-class quality ...

Recently, the well-known international media group World Trademark Review released its 2021 WTR 1000 directory, ranking Han Kun as a Recommended Firm for Enforcement and Litigation and Recommended Firm for Prosecution and Strategy, and recognizing Cecily Dong as a Ranked Individual. World Trademark Review is one of the world's leading intellectual property review media and a world-renowned legal rating agency ...

World Services Group (WSG) is pleased to announce that Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has joined the WSG network as the exclusive law firm member for Kentucky. Since being founded in 1908, Dinsmore has worked hard to stay ahead in an ever-evolving business, legal and regulatory climate focusing on anticipating legal developments and industry challenges before they impact clients ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised private equity house, Capiton AG via its investee company Dec Group on the purchase of Extract Technology. Established in 1981, Extract Technology is a worldwide supplier of containment and aseptic systems for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech and chemical markets ...

The World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000), a directory of the world’s leading trademark professionals, has again ranked Haynes and Boone, LLP among the top 20 trademark practices in the nation and as the preeminent large firm in Texas ...

World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) 2017 edition, one of the most recognized international guides to the world's top IP firms and practitioners, highly ranks Asters' trademark practice reflecting the Firm's strong performance over recent years. According to the research, "the IP department has been a vital cog in the Asters machine since the firm began operations in 1995 ...