Press Releases

On December 27, 2021, LEGALBAND, a well-known legal directory, published its 2021 Special Issue: China Top 15 Lawyers - High-tech & AI. The ranking celebrates highly recommended lawyers in the high-tech and AI practice in mainland China. Han Kun partner Mr. Sean Li was named in the ranking. Reasons for selection: Mr ...

On December 27, 2021, LEGALBAND, a well-known legal directory, published its 2021 Special Issue: China Top 15 Lawyers – Consumer and Retail. The ranking celebrates highly recommended lawyers in the consumer and retail practice in mainland China. Han Kun partner Mr. Kelvin Gao was named in the ranking. Reasons for selection: Mr. Gao has solid expertise and extensive practical experience in the fields of private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions and securities issuance and listing ...

Recently, Bright Dairy & Food Co., Ltd. ("Bright Dairy", Stock Code: 600597) concluded a private placement of A shares. Registration and custody formalities for the new shares were completed on December 20, 2021, at China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited Shanghai Branch. As legal counsel to Bright Dairy, Han Kun Law Offices was engaged throughout this project and provided Bright Dairy with professional, full-scope, and efficient legal services ...

BOYANOV & Co. advised the European Investment Bank on increasing the financing of OLIVA AD made available pursuant to a Luxembourg law governed finance contract executed in 2017, to EUR 37,2 million, for the purposes of adding new components to the company’s project for the construction of a new edible oil processing plant and grain silos. BOYANOV & Co ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has been appointed to Taylor Wimpey’s legal panels.Shoosmiths is the only firm to secure a place on the housebuilder’s legal roster in England and Wales, and Scotland. This follows Taylor Wimpey concluding its latest panel review. The two panels will commence in January 2022 for three years ...

Founded in 2005 and rebranded in 2020, Encora specialises in outsourced software product development services, using deep technical expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, cloud services and other next-generation digital engineering disciplines for tech-enabled and digital-native companies ...

The acquisition is part of abrdn's ongoing growth strategy and its commitment to the personal wealth and direct investing market.The transaction will see abrdn acquire 100% of the ordinary share capital of the holding company of interactive investor from its shareholders, including majority shareholder JC Flowers IV L.P., a fund advised by private equity group JC Flowers ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths and its London corporate team have announced a record breaking 2021 for deal activity in terms of volume and aggregate value of transactions through ongoing fast-paced market conditions.Led by partner and technology sector head James Klein, the corporate team has advised on numerous deals this year spanning private equity, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), banking and venture capital ...

December 21, 2021. Buchalter is pleased to announce its Arizona office has signed a new lease in the prestigious Scottsdale Quarter at 15169 N Scottsdale Rd. Buchalter’s Arizona office will be moving their 45 attorneys and support staff into the new 20,000 square foot space by early March, 2022. “The Scottsdale Quarter is exactly what we are looking for to accommodate our growth in Arizona,” said Adam Bass, President and Chief Executive Officer of Buchalter ...

BOYANOV & Co. continues to be ranked in the highest Band 1 in Banking & Finance, Competition/Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Employment, and Real Estate by the most prestigious legal research company Chambers and Partners. These rankings reconfirm the firm’s excellence of its services and stable position in the Bulgarian legal market. A client recognises our firm as “one of the most experienced and prominent law firms in Bulgaria for national banking and financial matters. BOYANOV & Co ...

BOYANOV & Co. advised the European Investment Bank on increasing the financing of OLIVA AD made available pursuant to a Luxembourg law governed finance contract executed in 2017, to EUR 37,2 million, for the purposes of adding new components to the company’s project for the construction of a new edible oil processing plant and grain silos. BOYANOV & Co ...

Bradley partner Whitt Steineker was quoted in a Law.com article on the cannabis industry in 2021, while looking towards the upcoming year. Steineker said, “While cannabis policy remains largely unchanged at the federal level, the Deep South continues to be a hotbed of activity with Alabama’s medical program coming online and legislation passing in Mississippi, Tennessee, and at least one of the Carolinas ...

The Founder's Awards, which are presented on an annual basis to a select group of individuals within the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), recognise members who have made 'an exceptional and outstanding long-term contribution to the Society above and beyond that normally expected of a member, through office in their branch, or elsewhere in the voluntary life of the Society' ...

On December 20, Asian Legal Business ("ALB") released its 2021 ranking of China's Top 15 IP Lawyers. Han Kun lawyer Mr. Tao Zhang was named to the list for his exceptional performance. Mr. Zhang's practice focuses on IP litigation, dispute resolution and transactions, as well as patent prosecution, invalidation, searches, and other IP-related counseling. He has extensive experience in providing legal services to both domestic and multinational clients ...

Innherji, an Icelandic news medium, published an article today by Kristinn Ingi Jónsson , lawyer and associate at LEX Law offices, where he discusses financial market rumours, their effect on the normal functioning of markets and regulations in the recent Act no. 60/2021 on measures against market fraud intended to counteract the disruptive effects of unconfirmed information. - https://www.visir ...

A team led by Dr. Henrik Lay, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Union Investment on matters of tax law in relation to the acquisition of the Cäcilium office building in Cologne by way of a share deal. The building was acquired for the holdings of special real estate fund UII German Prime Select. Constructed in 2009, Cäcilium benefits from an excellent location in Cologne city center ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, one of the major German commercial law firms, is the first law firm in Germany to develop its own whistleblower system. It aims to support businesses, authorities, municipalities, and associations with a comprehensive range of legal and technical services to meet the requirements of the EU Whistleblower Directive and of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act ...

A team led by Markus Lennartz, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, legally advised 1&1 Versatel Deutschland GmbH on entering into an agreement with 1&1 Mobilfunk GmbH on the lease of fiber optic connections and data centers with an initial term until the end of 2050. 1&1’s network combination of fiber optic connections and cloud-based OpenRAN architecture allows for particularly short transmission paths ...

Heuking's Zurich office supports BitMEX, one of the world's largest crypto derivatives trading platforms, in its Swiss market entry. The trading platform was founded in 2014 and intends to conduct its brokerage business for crypto derivatives from Switzerland in the future. Cryptocurrency markets have grown substantially in 2021, outpacing growth of all other asset classes. A volume of over a trillion US dollars is traded on BitMEX every year ...

A team led by Alexander Weber, Partner at Heuking’s Munich office, legally advised Döhler Ventures on the sale of its stake in Just Spices. Established in 2014, spice mix startup Just Spices most recently generated annual sales of some EUR 60 million. As part of its global expansion strategy, 85 percent of the shares held by the previous shareholders, including the stake held by Döhler Ventures, were now sold to Kraft Heinz group ...

A team led by Christopher Görtz from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advises artec technologies AG on the issuance of a convertible bond in accordance with the new Electronic Securities Act as part of a pilot project. Granting statutory subscription rights to its shareholders, artec technologies AG intends to issue the innovative product to its shareholders presumably at the beginning of 2022 ...

Heuking has advised a private sector consortium led by Accenture and including Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS which on December 8 announced that, together with the Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, it has con-ducted a cross-border settlement experiment (entitled Project Jura) using two wholesale CBDCs («wCBDC») and a digital financial instrument ...

Heuking has advised a private sector consortium led by Accenture and including Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS which on December 8 announced that, together with the Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, it has con-ducted a cross-border settlement experiment (entitled Project Jura) using two wholesale CBDCs («wCBDC») and a digital financial instrument ...

Bradley partner Elisha Kobre was quoted in a Yahoo Money article discussing the closing arguments of Elizabeth Holmes’ trial. The government will likely revisit Holmes' own testimony where she admitted to adding the logos of drug giants Pfizer and Schering-Plough to two Theranos reports. Investors who testified during the prosecution’s case said they thought the documents came from the pharmaceutical companies ...

Bradley partner Heather Howell Wright was quoted in a CQ Roll Call article discussing rate hikes for National Flood Insurance Program policies. Risk Rate 2.0, a new pricing methodology launched Oct. 1 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has generated criticism and made members of Congress from coastal states cautiously optimistic they may finally break the deadlock that has prevented a major overhaul of the National Flood Insurance Program ...