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National law firm Shoosmiths has advised IM Land on securing a successful planning appeal for a major residential and mixed-use scheme, the first to be approved since the publishing of the government's housing white paper. Plans to build 750 new homes at Curborough, near Lichfield, have been approved by Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid ...

A Federal Court of Justice decision of January 10, 2017 (Case VIII ZR 33/16) led to a judgment of Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court of January 21, 2016 (15 U 181/12) becoming final. The ruling had dismissed the claims for damages filed by deu B.u.S. Verkehrsbetriebe für Personenbeförderung AG as buyer of a company. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek had successfully represented the seller Gerhard Nau against the buyer ...

Dykema announced today that Jeana R. Long, McAllen-based attorney in the firm’s Financial Services Litigation practice group, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley. Founded in 1983, the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley is a champion to those organizations who focus on making food accessible to the Rio Grande Valley, including Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron Counties ...

Led by capital market law expert Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised PANTALEON Entertainment AG on a cash capital increase. In exclusion of shareholders' subscription rights, the company’s share capital was increased by issuing 55,000 new shares against cash contributions, placed with selected institutional investors. PANTALEON Entertainment AG is one of Europe’s fastest growing media companies ...

ENSafrica is pleased to announce that top banking and finance lawyer Rachel Musoke will be joining ENSafrica in Kampala, Uganda. This follows on the footsteps of Phillip Karugaba’s decision to join ENSafrica, Africa’s largest law firm, which has over 600 practitioners on the continent. Karugaba, who joined the firm in mid-December, is widely recognised, having received tier 1 ratings from top rankings agencies ...

Delphi has been legal advisor to NIBE Industrier AB (publ) in connection with its acquisition of 50% of the shares in the Canadian heat pump company CGC Group of Companies Inc., with an option to acquire the remaining 50% of the shares no later than spring 2022. CGC was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Mississauga, just outside Toronto, with its manufacturing facility in the nearby town of Fergus ...

QIL+4 Abogados in Guatemala acted as local counsel to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as underwriters and initial purchasers on the US$500,000,000.00 5.75% debt international notes offering by The Central America Bottling Corporation (CBC), a beverage producer and distributor with operations in Central America, the Caribbean and South America headquartered in Guatemala. Other financial institutions involved included Scotiabank and The Bank of New York Mellon ...

Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP has significantly expanded its London office with the addition of three partners, who will bolster the firm’s finance, shipping, and energy practices. Emma Russell and Zoë Connor join the firm as London partners in the Finance Practice Group, where they will represent banks, investment funds and other clients on a range of finance transactions, including arranging capital commitment/subscription financings and other fund financings ...

Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to announce the addition of three new lateral partners to its construction practice February 13, 2017 (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – David Buoncristiani moves from Jones Day and brings over 40 years of experience as a construction litigator recognized by Chambers USA and as a member of the American College of Construction Lawyers ...

A team led by Hamburg-based partner Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack advised family-owned company DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (DMB), Kiel, on the acquisition of all shares in DBW Advanced Fiber Technologies Group (DBW) from Süd-Kapitalbeteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH. Süd-Kapitalbeteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Süd Beteiligungen GmbH (SüdBG), which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg ...

Advokatfirman Delphi has been legal advisor to Amasten in Amasten’s acquisition of two real properties in Finspång with an underlying real estate value of SEK 177,5 million. The real properties consists of 16 351 square metres and the areas for lease include 215 apartments and a few commercial properties. Delphi’s team was led by partner Nina Persson, assisted by Katarina Häggqvist, Andréa Rylander and Rebin Ahmad. Contact: Nina Persson Partner/Advokat Delphi Ph ...

Delphi has assisted NIBE Industrier AB in the merger filing and the subsequent Phase II investigation as regards the acquisition of the main parts of British-owned Enertech Group, which resulted in that the Swedish Competition Authority on 27 January 2017 decided to clear the concentration since the investigation showed that the merger did not significantly impede effective competition in the market for heating systems ...

Agnes Hammarstrand and Agne Lindberg have been awarded the Client Choice Awards 2017 within IT law. Client Choice is an international survey conducted by the International Law Office and Lexology. The award is given to lawyers around the world who distinguish themselves through their extraordinary ability to add value to the client's business and it is legal counsels who have nominated and ranked lawyers around the world. Read more about Client Choice's survey here ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Autumn Highsmith was the exclusive winner of the 2017 International Law Office (ILO) and Lexology Client Choice Award for insolvency and restructuring lawyers in Texas. Established in 2005, the award recognizes law firms and partners around the world that provide excellent client care and add real value to their clients' businesses, above and beyond the other players in the market ...

Following a long stint working on electric power matters in the public sector, Jennifer Littlefield has joined the Austin office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as a member of the firm’s Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group. Littlefield worked most recently for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) on projects and issues impacting all segments of the electric industry ...

National law firm Shoosmiths was ‘highly commended’ in the legal or regulatory adviser category of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) Awards. Presented at the House of Lords, the awards celebrate excellence in a number of related fields with firms, advisers, individuals and journalists being recognised for their outstanding performance in the context of EIS/SEIS schemes during 2016 ...

Chambers Asia Pacific 2017 ranked SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan as Band 1 in all categories applicable to Philippine firms. The firm’s complete rankings may be found at the following link: www.chambersandpartners.com/asia/firm/3072/sycip-salazar-hernandez-gatmaitan. Firm and individual rankings are summarized below: Banking & Finance - Band 1 - Mia G. Gentugaya (Band 2) - Vicente D ...

A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer, partner at the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, comprehensively legally advised CG Group on issuing a bearer bond and overall financing. Subscribers to the bond are exclusively institutional investors. The bond was issued in a private placement. Net proceeds from the financing were used to acquire a property bought by CG Frankfurt Ostend GmbH & Co. KG at Danziger Platz in Frankfurt am Main, Ostend ...

In Parr v. Aruba, a case that has been closely followed by the oil and gas community, a Texas court of appeals on February 1 reversed a $2.9 million judgment against Aruba Petroleum Inc., holding that the plaintiffs failed to establish that the company’s natural gas operations constituted an intentional nuisance. The suit stemmed from drilling and production activity in the Barnett Shale in Texas ...

Munich-based DOMICIL Real Estate Group (Domicil) acquired two residential portfolios with a total of some 1,800 residential and commercial units from London-based Cording Real Estate Group (Cording) in a share deal following a structured bidding process. The residential portfolios consist of 60 properties spread all across Germany and held by Dutch companies ...

Effective January 1, 2016, USU Software AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard, ISIN DE000A0BVU28), Möglingen, Germany ("USU"), acquired all shares in unitB technology GmbH, Berlin, to epand USU’s range of services in the area of individual solutions and portals. The team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised USU ...

The public procurement procedure for the extension of Glina Waste Water Treatment Plant and the construction of a sludge incinerator has come to an end ...

National law firm Shoosmiths is providing global companies with crucial advice on doing business in the UK with its online guide. ‘The complete guide to doing business in the UK’ is available to download from the Shoosmiths website and offers international businesses expert insight on what needs to be addressed when venturing into the UK market ...

With a team led by Dr. Marc Scheunemann, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Wertgrund Immobilien AG in connection with the acquisition of the “Barthonia-Living-Portfolio“ in Köln-Ehrenfeld for the account of the special AIF WERTGRUND Wohnen D. Seller was a joint venture of Europe-focused fund EPISO3, advised by Tristan Capital Partners, and Freo Group ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised the British Retail Consortium (BRC) on their sale of BRC Global Standards to the LGC Group (formerly known as the Laboratory of the Government Chemist). BRC Global Standards is the world’s largest provider of safety and quality standards programmes for food and non-food manufacture, packaging, storage, and distribution, and the LGC Group is the leading international life sciences measurement and testing company ...