Press Releases

A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe advised SANHA GmbH & Co KG on adapting its 2013/2023 corporate bond. The bondholders’ meeting had approved the adaptation concept in agreement with management and the joint representative, One Square Advisory Services GmbH ...

In keeping with today's World Environment Day, DORDA announces the establishment of the Sustainability Practice Group. The new practice group brings together experts from various legal fields to provide targeted support to companies in their efforts to operate successfully and sustainably at the same time. Vienna, 5 June 2020 – Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important topic in almost all areas of business life ...

Under the lead of M&A expert Christian Ritschka, DORDA's Digital Industries Group advised Florian Schicker and easyname on the merger with the German dogado group. With the signing of the contract on 28 May 2020, easyname became part of a successful group of companies with the greatest ambitions in the DACH market. Florian Schicker, who continues to be co-owner and managing director, will also manage the Austrian business and international expansion ...

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Deacons’ Financial Services team advised BEA Union Investment (“BEA Union”) on the successful launch of the first public unlisted open-ended fund company (OFC) in Hong Kong. The fund launch follows the 2018 introduction of the OFC regime in Hong Kong, which provides an efficient platform for investment funds to be set up in company form. The fund is the BU Fund Series OFC, an umbrella OFC with one initial sub-fund offering multiple classes of shares ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that nine attorneys in the firm’s Tampa office have been named 2020 Florida Super Lawyers or Rising Stars, who are recognized as among the leading lawyers in the state. The firm’s Florida Super Lawyers and their recognized practice areas are: Timothy A. Andreu, partner; Banking and Financial Services Practice Group (Business Litigation) Michael B. Colgan, counsel; Litigation Practice Group (Business Litigation) Robert B ...

June 3, 2020 – Buchalter is pleased to welcome new litigators Vincent Whittaker and Skye Daley to its San Diego office. Both Whittaker and Daley’s primary focus is complex business and commercial litigation throughout California. “I am delighted to welcome both Vince and Skye to the Firm,” said Adam Bass, Buchalter President and Chief Executive Officer ...

Effective June 1, Rahel Skau will join Heuking and assume the position of Head of Legal Tech and Digitalization. The newly created position takes account of the increasing digitalization of legal advisory services and is intended to further increase the law firm’s innovative strength and implementation speed at the interface of advisory offerings and business processes ...

The law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised automotive supplier Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (“HELLA”), Lippstadt, on the structuring of a syndicated loan. The loan of an international bank consortium in the amount of EUR 500,000,000 has a term of five years with an extension option for another year. The loan serves general corporate financing purposes ...

A team led by capital market expert Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised medical technology company Pentracor GmbH on issuing a bond in private placement with possible conversion right. The company intends to use the issue volume of up to EUR 15 million for a large-scale roll-out of its certified medical device innovation PentraSorb. At a term of five years, the bond’s interest rate is fixed at 8.50 percent annually ...

With a team led by Prof. Dr. Georg Streit, Partner at its Munich office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised the insolvency administrators of online auto parts dealer www.atp-autoteile.de, Volker Böhm and Dr. Elske Fehl-Weileder, both from Schultze & Braun, on the sale of the company to SAG Group. SAG will take over ATP’s entire business operations and all of the about 250 remaining jobs will be saved ...

Han Kun and Han Kun's Hong Kong associated law firm have welcomed two new partners, Mr. Xiangyang FAN and Mr. Hon Kit YIP (Adrian), further strengthening the firm's dispute resolution practice. Mr. Xiangyang Fan joins Han Kun as a partner Mr ...

Han Kun Law Offices and its Hong Kong associated law firm, as PRC and Hong Kong legal advisors, represented YEAHKA LIMITED ("YEAHKA", Stock Code: 9923) in connection with its initial public offering in Hong Kong and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of an aggregate of 98,724,000 ordinary shares (prior to the exercise of the over-allotment option), which raised approximately HK$1.6 billion (US$212.0 million) in gross proceeds ...

On 29 May 2020, Volkswagen (China) Investment Co., Ltd. ("VCIC") signed a letter of intent with Anhui SASAC and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Holdings Limited ("JAG") regarding a capital increase in JAG. VCIC plans to acquire a 50% stake in JAG, the controlling shareholder of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp., Ltd. (600418), and increase to 75% its stake in JAC Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd., its joint venture for electric automobiles ...

Recently, FinanceAsia released the results of its 2020 Country Awards. Han Kun was awarded "Best China Law Firm"based on the firm's participation during the last 12 months in complex cross-border and domestic M&A, capital markets, and private equity transactions ...

Asters acts as a legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in connection with its financing to Lantmannen Axa, a leading producer of breakfast cereals in Ukraine that is owned by Sweden’s largest agribusiness cooperative, Lantmannen ...

Bradley attorney Will Manuel was featured in EHS Today on how employers should prepare for their employees to return to work following the coronavirus shutdown. “Business owners want to keep their employees healthy and safe. They also want to operate in a way that garners at least enough income to keep their doors open. And, at the core, employers suffer from FOMU — Fear of Messing Up,” said Manuel ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Jacob Hanson has joined the firm’s Tampa office as an associate in the Litigation Practice Group. “We are pleased to welcome Jacob to our growing team of attorneys in Tampa,” said Bradley Tampa Office Managing Partner Craig Mayfield. “Jacob brings valuable litigation experience that will benefit our clients throughout Florida ...

Morgan & Morgan advised Parque Industrial y Corporativo Sur, SA, in relation to the public offering of revolving corporate bonds (hereinafter the “Bonds”), which will be issued in multiple series, which may be senior series or subordinated series under a revolving program in which the outstanding principal balance of the Bonds issued and owed, in a single moment, may not exceed One Hundred million Dollars (US $100,000,000.00), legal tender of the United States of America ...

Asters has been listed among the world’s top international arbitration law firms by the recently published Global Arbitration Review – The GAR 100 (13th Edition), one of the most authoritative global independent researches of the best law firms specializing in international arbitration. GAR 100 recommends the firm’s Co-Managing Partners Oleksiy Didkovskiy and Serhii Sviriba, practice co-head Partner Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi and Partners Svitlana Chepurna and Yaroslav Petrov ...

We are pleased to announce that our Intellectual Property department has been ranked again as a Top Tier firm by Managing IP (MIP) Stars for 2020 in both Hong Kong and China. In Hong Kong we are thrilled to be ranked as a Top Tier firm in the “Trade Mark Contentious” and “Trade Mark Prosecution” category. In China, our IP department is ranked as a Tier 2 firm for the “Trade Mark (Foreign Firms)” category ...

Han Kun has been shortlisted for the ALB China Law Awards 2020 in the following award categories: 1. China Law Firm of the Year 2. Beijing Law Firm of the Year 3. Deal Firm of the Year 4. Private Equity Law Firm of the Year - China 5. Anti-Trust & Competition Law Firm of the Year 6. Banking Law Firm of the Year 7. Healthcare Law Firm of the Year 8. Wealth Management Law Firm of the Year 9. Education Law Firm of the Year 10 ...

On May 20, 2020, Asian Legal Business (ALB) announced its 2020 ALB China IP Rankings. Han Kun’s intellectual property practice ranked in both "Patents" and "Copyright/Trademark" for the fourth consecutive year, owing to our outstanding performance and client satisfaction in the field. ALB is an influential legal journal owned by Thomson Reuters whose rankings cover China, Japan, and most other Asian countries such as Singapore and South Korea ...

Bradley attorney Anna Manasco was confirmed by the Senate to serve as a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Ms. Manasco has been with Bradley since 2009 and has focused her practice on trial strategy and appeals in complex, multi-jurisdictional and high-stakes litigation. She has represented clients in state and federal trial courts, the Alabama Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, various federal courts of appeal across the country, and arbitration ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Robert A. Cox Jr., a partner in the firm’s Charlotte office, has been recognized as a Board Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy Law by the North Carolina State Bar. “We congratulate Rob on earning distinction as a North Carolina board-certified Business Bankruptcy Law attorney,” said Bradley Charlotte Office Managing Partner Christopher C. Lam ...