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With a Frankfurt-based team led by partner Thomas K. Schrell, business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised HF Private Debt on financing the acquisition of all shares in M&M Werbeagentur GmbH – phone card marketing. The financing volume was not disclosed. M&M Werbeagentur was acquired via a member of ICP Group. Both companies, which operate under a joint holding company, are among Europe’s market leaders for innovative electronic transaction and sales systems ...

A leading provider of secure IT infrastructure solutions in Europe, Conscia Holding acquires NIL Skupina, a leading IT services provider headquartered Slovenia, with subsidiaries in Serbia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. The Karanovic & Partners legal team – led by Senior Partner* Marko Ketler and Associate Živa Nucic, advised Conscia Holding in this transaction. The services included acquisition advisory, as well as a legal due diligence ...

Han Kun advised and acted as the PRC counsel to the joint bookrunners on Futu Holdings Limited's U.S. initial public offering and listing on the Nasdaq Global Market (NASDAQ: FHL). Futu Holdings Limited is a leading online securities brokerage platform ...

As of March 2019, Dr. Martin G. Ströhmann, LL.M. (Chicago) joined the Munich office of law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. As Salaried Partner, he will expand the firm’s Compliance practice in Munich and will join the teams led by Partners Boris Dürr and Dr. Arnold Büssemaker. Dr. Martin Ströhmann (46), is admitted as Rechtsanwalt (lawyer) in Germany and as Attorney and Counselor-At-Law in New York. Dr ...

With a team led by Boris Dürr and Dr. Oliver Treptow, both from the firm’s Munich office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised private equity investor Auctus and its portfolio company GS Star Hotels on the acquisition of a majority interest in Rilano Holding GmbH. With this transaction, GS Star group is consistently implementing its expansion concept and expanding its offering to include additional hotels in Germany and Austria ...

The award-winning venture capital team at Shoosmiths has guided the development capital team of its long-term client Octopus Investments on its £5 million growth investment into Rotolight, which creates advanced LED lighting for the photography and filmmaking industry. Rotolight’s products have been used by the BBC, ITV’s Dancing on Ice, EA Sports and Disney, and been used in box office hits like James Bond’s Skyfall and Tom Hanks’ Captain Phillips ...

February was a month of good news for Carey. We were ranked by Chambers Global as the Chilean firm with most areas of practice ranked in Band 1. Chambers Global covers more than 180 countries around the world and compares firms that have an expansive regional or global scope, identifying and classifying the most outstanding firms and lawyers. Our partners Rafael Vergara and Marcos Ríos were featured in the "Thought Leaders: Global Elite 2019" edition of Who’s Who Legal ...

A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Domicil Real Estate Group on the acquisition of a residential building in Munich’s Johanneskirchen district as part of a share deal. The building will be a part of the asset and portfolio manager’s own portfolio. The residential complex has been sold by a family office. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

Bucharest, 4 March 2019 - Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen announced today its 2019 promotions. Roxana Abrașu (Employment) and Șandor Gal (NNDKP Brașov) were promoted to Managing Associate positions. Emanuel Bondalici (Dispute Resolution), Mihaela Ceaușescu (Dispute Resolution), Tudor Ciambur (Real Estate), Raluca Gabor (Corporate/M&A), Ion Loga (Timișoara office), Vlad Nicolae (Dispute Resolution) and Ionuț Stancu (Employment) were promoted to Senior Associate positions ...

A team led by Dr. Frank Baßler from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Stuttgart office advised MOMENI group on the acquisition of “Galerie Luise,” a gallery that is well known beyond Hanover’s borders. The acquisition was made on behalf of an open-ended special AIF managed by MOMENI group. The seller is a property company managed by Munich-based Accom. The office and retail complex is located in downtown Hanover between the main railway station and the State Opera House ...

A team led by Dr. Michael Sörgel advised the start-up Motesque on a cooperation with Ottobock SE. Together, the two companies intend to further develop a digital, cloud-based platform for motion analysis developed by Motesque and market it as a medical device. The platform is suitable for faster and simpler diagnosis of knee malfunctions through an automated procedure for dynamic evaluation of kinematic knee function ...

<p>Anastasia Petrova, Senior Consultant of ALRUD, spoke at the Privacy Day conference, which was organized by the Digital Rights Center, in cooperation with the Digital Rights Laboratory.</p> <p>In her speech, Anastasia disclosed issues of data protection while conducting corporate investigations, and told the audience how to find a balance of interests of the business and the rights of personal data owners, whilst complying with legal requirements ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s corporate finance team has reported a bumper year for deals activity, with the value of transactions more than doubling to £8.65 billion. The team advised on 114 deals globally in the year to December 2018, up from 98 deals in 2017, boosted by a number of notable technology-led transactions, including advising Scotland’s first tech unicorn FanDuel on its sale to Paddy Power Betfair ...

Supported by a team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office, Silverlake Real Estate Group acquired the office building at Ben-Gurion-Ring 174 in Frankfurt, a former SEB branch. With the acquisition of the building, Silverlake is implementing its intended market entry in Frankfurt. The currently vacant four-story building in Nieder-Eschbach features a rental space of some 10,000 square meters ...

Buenos Aires, 22 February 2019. On February 8th, the French renewable energy group Total Eren announced the closing of an agreement with the international banks KfW and FMO for the financing of the “Malaspina I” wind project, worth up to US$103,690,583.78. Central Eólica Pampa de Malaspina S.A.U. was awarded a Renewable Electricity Purchase Agreement within the framework of Resolution No ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, is proud to announce the formation of its dedicated Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) team. As one of only a few law firms currently defending Illinois companies against BIPA class action suits, Dykema is uniquely situated to handle the anticipated influx in related litigation due to arise as a result of the statute and recent case law developments ...

We are proud to announce that Karanovic & Partners has once again been top-ranked on the most recent Chambers Global leading law firm listing. The 2019 Chambers Global guide highlights the Corporate & Commercial practice group in the jurisdictions of Montenegro and Serbia as belonging to band 1 ...

After winning the Deal of the Year Award in 2018, Karanovic & Partners is this year once again in the finals for this prestigious accolade – this time with 5 deals and in 5 jurisdictions. Organized by the renowned CEE Legal Matters magazine, these awards are a way of recognizing the biggest and most important deals by law firms in Central and Eastern European jurisdictions ...

Coca-Cola HBC announced the agreement to acquire Bambi, the leading Serbian biscuit and confectionary maker, from Mid Europa Partners, the leading private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe. Karanovic & Partners, working together with White & Case and KPMG, advised Mid Europa Partners in this transaction – which is now subject to customary competition authority clearance and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019 ...

The Asian Lawyer recently announced the finalists for the Asia Legal Awards 2019. The Asian Lawyer, in association with The American Lawyer, China Law & Practice and Legal Week, has held the Asia Legal Awards annually since 2014, with the intent to recognize the region's landmark deals, best-performing law firms and standout partners ...

Chambers & Partners, the world's foremost legal media publisher, recently released its Chambers Global 2019 guide, as well as its global rankings of lawyers and law firms. Multiple Han Kun lawyers and practice areas have been ranked. Han Kun was also recognized as one of spotlight table Chinese firms for International & Cross Border Capabilities (PRC Firms) ...

O’Neal Webster announces the expansion of its litigation team with the addition of Dan Wise, formerly Head of Litigation at Martin Kenney & Company, who joins as a partner in the firm’s Tortola office. Mr. Wise specializes in complex, cross border commercial litigation and is admitted to practice in England and Wales, the British Virgin Islands, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines ...

In fiscal 2018, business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek again recorded significant gains in revenue: 2018 annual revenue amounted to EUR 177 million, an increase of EUR 27.5 million over the previous year. With last year’s revenue standing at EUR 149.5 million, growth of 18.4 percent was recorded in 2018. “On the one hand, this very appreciated increase in revenue is due to the fact that our employment situation is excellent in all core areas of our practice ...

UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised long-standing client Kier Living on its successful bid to provide exclusive, high-quality homes in one of Cardiff’s largest and more prestigious residential developments. The Churchlands development site in Lisvane, Cardiff, will be transformed into a 1,000-home site with a new school, district centre and extensive areas of public open space. Kier Living will build up to 330 homes on the site from two-bedroom starter homes to five-bedroom properties ...

A joint project company of ON Real Estate and TPH Real Estate sold a project development at Wattenscheider Straße 13 in Düsseldorf. A team led by Düsseldorf-based partner Dr. Peter Vocke advised the company on the share deal. The buyers are two family offices from Frankfurt and Hamburg. The building with 56 micro-apartments in Düsseldorf will be completed in the course of 2019 ...