Sweden
Law firm Delphi has assisted Balderton Capital in connection with its investment in Funnel AB. The total financing round amounted to USD 10 million. Delphi’s team consisted of Anders Lindström (Partner), assisted primarily by Emma Dansbo (Senior Associate) and Matilda Karlsson, (Associate). A large number of other colleagues at Delphi were also involved in the work. For more information about the investment, Funnel and Balderton Capital, see the press release from Funnel: https://www ...
Germany
A team with members from several offices led by Stuttgart partner Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised CGS IV (Jersey) L.P., an investment fund managed by Switzerland-based CGS Management AG, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Stürtz Maschinenbau GmbH. Together with management, which will continue to hold a stake in Stürtz Maschinenbau GmbH, CGS is pursuing the objective of positioning Stürtz Maschinenbau even better on international markets ...
Texas, USA
The Chambers UK legal directory, published by Chambers and Partners, has again ranked Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP highly in the Shipping - UK-wide category for its skills in advising in the shipbuilding and offshore energy sectors. The 2018 Chambers UK directory ranked Haynes and Boone CDG as a recommended law firm, singling out the Shipping Practice Group. In addition, Senior Partner Simon Curtis and London Head of Dispute Resolution William Cecil were listed as notable practitioners ...
Texas, USA
Haynes and Boone, LLP and lawyers in its Mexican affiliate, Haynes and Boone, SC, have been recognized in the 2018 Chambers Latin America legal directory, published by Chambers and Partners, for their work in multiple legal practices. The newest edition of the highly regarded publication again recognizes the firm for the Mexico categories of Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A, Energy & Natural Resources and Real Estate and for Corporate/M&A in the Latin America-wide category ...
United States of Ame
<strong>Greensboro, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that nearly 100 business leaders from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region gathered today for the law firm's Greensboro SuperVision™ symposium, during which presenters discussed the hottest labor, employment and human resources issues affecting today's businesses ...
Philippines
The IFLR1000 2018 rankings are out. SyCipLaw is ranked Tier 1 in all practice areas covered by their research. These are: Banking, M&A, Project finance, Capital markets, Project development, and Restructuring and insolvency. Eight SyCipLaw lawyers are also listed as leading lawyers: - Hector M. De Leon, Jr., managing partner Highly Regarded Practice areas: Energy and infrastructure, Banking, Project finance, and M&A Industry sectors: Energy, Oil and gas, and Mining - Marievic G ...
Panama
Morgan & Morgan advised Multibank Inc., one of the largest and most important banks in Panama, in a public offering of revolving short term commercial paper for an amount of up to US$200,000,000.00 Multibank Inc., registered a program of revolving short term commercial paper in series for an amount of up to US$200,000,000.00 with the Superintendency of Capital Markets of Panama. Payments due to holders of such securities are unsecured and backed by the general credit of the issuer ...
Singapore
TSMP is pleased to have advised entertainment company mm2 Asia in its acquisition of a household brand, Cathay Cineplexes, in a SGD 230-million dollar deal signed this morning. The deal will see mm2 Asia take over Singapore’s eight Cathay cinemas, bringing its total number of screens to 206 across 27 locations, including in Malaysia ...
Michigan, USA
Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that the firm was nationally ranked in 13 practice areas in the 2018 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list, as well as receiving a total of 123 metropolitan rankings representing various areas of law. The U.S ...
Texas, USA
Haynes and Boone, LLP advised KMG Chemicals, Inc. in a $186 million public offering of common stock that closed Oct. 23. The offering included 3,000,000 shares of common stock of KMG and an additional 450,000 shares purchased by the underwriters. Houston Partner Bill Nelson led the Haynes and Boone team representing KMG. He was assisted by Houston Partner Kristina Trauger and Houston Associate Sameer Saxena. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc ...
Chile
Carey advised CBRE Chile in the tender process for the supply of energy to 40 commercial buildings under the management of CBRE Chile. The advice involved the legal and regulatory analysis regarding the applicability of free negotiated tariff to the buildings; structuring the tender process, including drafting the tender terms and conditions, invitation and Q&A letters. Also it included the assessment of the bids submitted; and the negotiation of the PPA with AES Gener Chile, the awarded bidder ...
Texas, USA
Haynes and Boone, LLP represented client VBI Vaccines Inc. in its successful underwritten public offering and concurrent registered direct offering of common shares for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $71.9 million. Partner Rick Werner led the Haynes and Boone team representing VBI, assisted by Associates Jayun Koo and Pat Horan ...
Texas, USA
As a sign of the improved financial health of the oil and gas industry, exploration and production companies appear to be in a better position to comply with strict lending guidelines released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in 2016, according to a recent analysis by Haynes and Boone, LLP. The OCC in 2016 published revised guidelines to assist banks in assessing the risk of their oil and gas loans ...
Germany
Madeleine Zipperle and Dr. Thorsten Kuthe advised mwb fairtrade Wertpapierhandelsbank AG on the successful issue of the Euroboden GmbH bond. Due to the high demand, the public offer ended already on the first subscription day – the period was originally set to end on November 7, 2017. The EUR 25 million issue volume was fully placed. Part of the new issue is to be used for redeeming the previous bond, while the remainder is to be used for operational business ...
Germany
Medical technology specialist CLEARUM GmbH and Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH founded a joint venture by the name of Med-Tec Holding GmbH. CLEARUM and its founders, Dr. Torsten Klein and Jens Sieder, were supported by a team led by Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. Cheplapharm initially acquired a 24.9% stake in CLEARUM by way of a capital increase and will acquire 24.9% of the joint medical technology company Med-Tec Holding GmbH ...
Texas, USA
With parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement announcing recently that they plan to continue renegotiations through February 2018, Haynes and Boone, LLP released a new report examining where the talks stand on more than 30 issues under discussion. Haynes and Boone, which has a longstanding office in Mexico City as well as offices across the U.S ...
Texas, USA
A Haynes and Boone, LLP team led by Partner Thad Behrens and Associate Charlie Jones scored another win for the National Football League in litigation pursued by a fantasy football convention company owned by former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo ...
Denmark
The Danish IT consulting firm Netcompany has completed its largest acquisition to date by acquiring the British IT company Hunter Macdonald. Plesner has assisted Netcompany with the newly closed transaction. Netcompany continues its international expansion with the acquisition of Hunter Macdonald and the company adds a strong capacity as regards cyber security and IT infrastructure. Netcompany previously expanded in Poland and Norway ...
United States of Ame
<strong>Winston-Salem, N.C.</strong> — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that attorney <a href="https://www.spilmanlaw.com/people/ashlee_webster/details">Ashlee A. Webster</a> joined the law firm, adding depth to its litigation services and marking the North Carolina office's fourth hire in the past two months ...
Philippines
For the second year in a row, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (SyCipLaw) was named Philippine Law Firm of the Year, Arbitration Law Firm of the Year, and Banking and Financial Services Law Firm of the Year at the 2nd ALB Philippine Law Awards. The firm also received the Construction and Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, while SyCipLaw partner Emmanuel M. Lombos was named Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year ...
Russia
October 26th ALRUD Law Firm and Bird & Bird, held a joint seminar “Project Development and Finance in Russia: key practical issues from English law and Russian law perspective”. Andrey Zharskiy, ALRUD Partner, Head of Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure Practice, and Anton Dzhuplin, Partner, Head of Banking and Finance Practice, were speakers on the Seminar ...
Texas, USA
Barry Buchman has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP's Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Insurance Recovery Practice. Recognized as a leading policyholder insurance attorney by Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc. (2016-2017), Chambers USA, Chambers & Partners (2012-2017), and Washington, D.C ...
Michigan, USA
Respondents to Dykema’s 13th Annual M&A Outlook Survey expressed an overall bullish viewpoint of the economy and U.S. M&A market, bringing a new level of optimism, not seen in several years. Thirty-nine percent of respondents in this year’s survey expect the M&A market to strengthen over the next 12 months, up from 33-percent last year and 37-percent in 2015 ...
England
National law firm Shoosmiths has advised development client Frontier Estates Limited on the first of what could be a number of multi-million pound property deals to ensure the development of a number of much-needed care homes. Shoosmiths’ real estate team advised the developer on the initial acquisition of the sites in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire ...
Sweden
Advokatfirman Delphi has advised Cherry AB (publ) in connection with delisting from AktieTorget and admission to trading of the company’s shares on Nasdaq Stockholm Mid Cap. Delphi’s team consisted of, among others, Michael Juhlin (responsible partner), Jonas Ingvarson and Marcus Halling. For more information, please see Cherry’s press release: http://www.cherry ...
