Press Releases

A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke advised Domicil Real Estate Group on the sale of a portfolio consisting of eight existing properties, mainly in A-list cities with a total of almost 500 apartments. The portfolio, worth EUR 86 million, was bought by cooperation partner Wealthcap for its first fund, “Spezial Wohnen 1.” The properties are located in Düsseldorf-Hellerhof, Hamburg (Wandsbek and Borgfelde), Berlin (Treptow-Köpenick), Bielefeld-Jöllenbeck, and Gelsenkirchen-Mitte ...

We are proud to announce that Karanovic & Partners won the Euromoney Real Estate Survey in the Advisors and Consultants category for the second year in a row! Karanovic & Partners was once again chosen as the Number One Legal Service provider in Serbia in the Real Estate industry. "It is truly a privilege to be honored with this award for the second time ...

Dykema is proud to announce that it successfully represented Sterling Commercial Credit LLC and CM Sterling LLC (Sterling) in the Thirteenth District of the Texas Court of Appeals. The Dykema team on the case consisted of Aaron Kaufman (lead) and Melanie Fry. Dakota Utility Contractors, Inc ...

Texas Super Lawyers recognized 57 Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers in the 2018 edition of the annual directory published by Thomson Reuters. Four Haynes and Boone partners were named Top 100 Texas lawyers: Nina Cortell, Ben Mesches, Lynne Liberato and Mark Trachtenberg. Cortell and Liberato also were recognized among the state’s Top 50 women lawyers ...

Asters acted as a Ukrainian law counsel to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, in connection with a USD 30 million loan to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer in Ukraine. IFC financial support will fund the Company’s two-year investment program aimed at increasing the resource efficiency of its processing plants and the productivity of its farming operations ...

Having successfully passed the New York Bar exam Constantin Solyar was admitted to the bar on June 27, 2018 allowing him to practice US law. In his role as Partner at Asters Constantin focuses on advising clients on a variety of international tax matters and structuring their investments across the USA and Europe. His practice areas include corporate, M&A, and business law. Constantin also advises a number of high-net-worth individuals on their inbound and outbound investments ...

10 Asters lawyers have been recognized as world's leading law experts in their practice areas by the 2018 edition of Who's Who Legal, one of the most authoritative international legal reviews. The independent research process encompasses more than 2 million recommendations from private practice experts and client sources and researchers have travelled to more than 60 jurisdictions to investigate local markets ...

Asters successfully defended a leading chemical producer in a 15 months anti-dumping investigation into urea formaldehyde concentrate (UFC) and urea formaldehyde resin (UFR) imports into Ukraine. The investigation was launched back in April 2017 following the complaint of a national player claiming that foreign UFC and UFR producers and exporters are engaged in unfair trade practices ...

Asters is delighted to announce that Anzhelika Livitska has joined the Firm's Energy & Natural Resources practice as counsel. Anzhelika has more than 22 years of experience in Energy & Natural Resources and Real Estate & Construction ...

In August 2018, Chambers and Partners, the prestigious English publication, released the 2019 edition of their rankings of the Latin American legal market. In this new guide, Carey stands out for receiving the most band 1 rankings in Chile, as well as being the only firm in Chile ranked in all the practice areas that they cover. With 38 lawyers recognized in their respective areas of practice, Carey received the highest number of individual recognitions in Chile ...

Supported by the M&A team led by Hamburg-based partner Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, ATH Altonaer-Technologie-Holding GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg and owner of KROENERT GmbH & Co KG, acquired all shares in Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. KROENERT and Coatema are machine and equipment manufacturers in the coating and converting industry and global leaders in their respective market segments ...

A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office, successfully advised a large-scale financial investor with business seat in New York City, New York, USA, on the acquisition of an office building portfolio consisting of three office buildings in North-Rhine Westphalia. The portfolio was under asset management of publity AG and comprises lease space of approximately 70,000 sqm. The parties agreed on confidentiality about the seller and purchase price ...

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 ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Lindsay S. Henry to its Financial Industry Group as a Senior Counsel in the firm’s Chicago office. Ms. Henry joins Dykema after practicing at Chapman and Cutler in Chicago for nearly seven years, where she worked closely with recent Dykema lateral hire Scott R. Fryzel on banking and financial services-related matters. In her practice, Ms ...

Robert P. Tiplady and Marie R. Deveney, Ann Arbor-based members of the Dykema’s Estate Planning & Administration practice, were recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers High Net Worth Guide (Chambers HNW) in the area Private Wealth Law in the State of Michigan. This marks Tiplady’s third-consecutive inclusion in the publication (which first launched in 2016) and Deveney’s first ...

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised HypoVereinsbank on the invitation to bid on and the re-awarding of the facility management for some 500 German properties used by banks, including data centers. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s comprehensive legal advice ranged from drawing up the specifications to drafting and negotiating the new contract. The advisory team for HypoVereinsbank was jointly led by Dr. Carsten Schrader, Partner in Munich, and Dr. Thomas Nickel, Partner in Frankfurt ...

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan joined the kick-off activity of the Philippine Business for Social Progress’ (PBSP) annual “Ready for School” (RFS) campaign last May 26 at the Taguig National High School (TNHS) in New Lower Bicutan, Taguig City. SyCipLaw volunteers helped prepare the school in time for the opening of classes last June. The activities included repainting of school chairs and blackboards, covering of books, construction of reading nooks, and cleaning of classrooms ...

Asia Business Law Journal’s list of top 100 lawyers in the Philippines includes nine lawyers from SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. The list was based on extensive research conducted by the publication, including nominations made by professionals in Filipino and global companies and law firms. The SyCipLaw lawyers featured in the list are: • Hector M. de Leon, Jr., managing partner - Corporate/M&A; projects, infrastructure and energy; finance; tax • Emmanuel M ...

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan’s Managing Partner Hector M. de Leon, Jr. is one of six finalists worldwide for TrustLaw’s Lawyer of the Year award. The award recognizes exceptional pro bono work. Public online voting is open until August 31 (Friday) through this link: www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4496581/Vote-for-TrustLaw-Lawyer-of-the-Year-2018. TrustLaw is Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono legal program ...

A team lead by Dr. Anne de Boer assisted Hengst SE, a globally operating specialist for cutting-edge filtration solutions headquartered in Münster, in the acquisition of the DELBAG business from FläktGroup. DELBAG engineers, manufactures and markets air filters and air filtration systems for use in commercial, industrial and residential applications. DELBAG’s headquarter is in Herne / Germany and it has further locations in the Czech Republic, France, Poland and Austria ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Laura Lee Prather will receive the 2018 James Madison Award from the Freedom of Information (FOI) Foundation of Texas for serving as a champion of free speech and government transparency. The award honors those who demonstrate outstanding commitment to upholding the principles of the First Amendment and open government. Prather will receive the award Sept. 21 at an awards luncheon during the foundation’s Bernard and Audre Rapoport State Conference in Austin ...

A team led by Boris Dürr advised CANCOM SE on the acquisition of The Organised Group Ltd, parent company of UK-based IT solution provider OCSL. The total volume of the transaction is about EUR 32 million, of which some EUR 29 million will be paid in cash. For the remainder, OCSL executives who will continue to work for the company will receive 12.5% of the shares in the acquiring UK subsidiary of CANCOM SE ...

Dr. Rainer Herschlein and his team of lawyers advised WhiteGreyBlack GmbH on the acquisition of a majority stake in Radeberger Fleisch- und Wurstwaren Korch GmbH from the previous shareholders, the Korch family, and accompanied the transaction. SIB Innovations- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH became a minority shareholder as part of the transaction ...

ENSafrica, Africa’s largest law firm, has appointed Arabella Bennett as an executive consultant in our top-tier banking and finance department in Cape Town. Arabella, who was an executive at the firm until 2014, has over 15 years’ experience and is a specialist in pension law, collective investments, insurance and reinsurance transactions, regulatory work and local and cross-border structured debt and hybrid debt transactions ...

A team led by Dr. Georg Streit, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Munich office, advised Ring International Holding AG on the acquisition of automotive supplier BOA Balg- und Kompensatoren-Technologie from its German insolvency administrator. Lead counsel on the transaction, carried out by transferring assets as well as shares in subsidiaries, was Austrian law firm Brandl & Talos Rechtsanwälte GmbH. Ring International Holding AG is headquartered in Vienna ...