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Supported by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, led by Dr. Anne de Boer, Cloud No 7 GmbH took out interim financing in the form of a secured bond. Cloud No. 7 GmbH is building the Cloud No 7 residential and hotel complex in Stuttgart's Europaviertel sector behind the main railway station; the hotel is leased to Steigenberger Hotels AG. Construction is funded by a project development bond that was issued in 2013 and will be due in July 2017 ...

Kajo Neukirchen Group, a family office, specializing among others in investmenta in companies and real estate, acquired a number of office and commercial buildings in Mannheim and Heidelberg from a project developer based in the Rhine-Neckar region. The purchase includes a listed office property and a residential complex. Kajo Neukirchen Group thus continues its growth in the real estate sector. Kajo Neukirchen Group was advised by a team led by Frankfurt-based real estate specialist Dr ...

Corporate law experts Dr. Mirko Sickinger, partner at the Cologne office of business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, and Tobias Nagel advised BE Beteiligungen Fonds GmbH & Co. geschlossene Investmentkommanditgesellschaft on an investment in iic group GmbH. The investment was made by direct participation via the acquisition of shares as part of a capital increase of iic group GmbH and mezzanine financing by granting a shareholder loan ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised the founders of SecurEnvoy Limited on the sale and reverse takeover into AIM listed Shearwater Group PLC. As the initial acquisition under Shearwater Group’s transformation strategy, the £20 million consideration was satisfied by the payment of £10 million in cash and £10 million through the issuance of 200 million Ordinary Shares of the Company at a price of 5 pence per share ...

In its April 20, 2017 judgment, Düsseldorf Regional Court found that Chinese company Hisky Medical Technologies Co. Ltd. infringed on the German part of patent EP 1 169 636 B1. French company Echosens and its subsidiary SEISME had filed legal action. The companies claimed that Hisky Medical Technologies Co. Ltd. had infringed on the German part of this patent by offering the "FibroTouch FT1000" device in Germany. Lawyers Dr. Anton Horn and Dr ...

Delphi has acted as legal advisor to Amasten in an exchange deal with NSI Invest which involves the sale of nine properties in Solleftea and Härnösand, as well as acquisition of a larger property in Sundsvall including both residential and commercial leases, as well as three smaller commercial properties in Karlskoga and Smålandsstenar. The deal is structured as a share transfer and the acquisitions are based on an underlying property value of SEK 63 ...

<strong>Wheeling, W.Va.</strong> —Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that attorney <a href="~/dataentry/professionals-(1)/r-z/weld">Ryan W. Weld</a> has joined the law firm’s Wheeling office.<br /> <br /> “Ryan represents exactly the kind of legal professional we seek out for our team—bright, motivated, and community-minded,” said Sharon L. Potter, Member in Charge of Spilman’s Wheeling office ...

Pellerano & Herrera announced a vast program of celebration to commemorate its 65th anniversary this year, which will commence with the creation and launch of the firm’s Alumni Circle and the awards to the most outstanding former firm employees. The managing partner of the firm, Ricardo Pellerano, explained that alumni are a group of graduates of an academic institution ...

ENSafrica, Africa’s largest law firm, has appointed technology, media and telecommunications (“TMT”) law specialist Wilmari Strachan as a director in its TMT practice in South Africa. Strachan has 15 years’ experience, and specialises in information and communications technology (“ICT”) law, including the related technical, commercial, compliance, business, customer and performance management aspects ...

National law firm Shoosmiths is welcoming a new office head at the Thames Valley office as former head and real estate partner Andrew Farmery steps down to relocate to Shoosmiths’ London office. From 1 May employment partner Jonathan Naylor took over from Andrew, who had been head of office since September 2012 ...

Dear Members, Several of our Australian, Canadian, British, Indian, and Chinese clients are very much interested in acquiring mining interests in Chile, Perú, Ecuador and Colombia. Should you, or any of your acquaintances, have mining interests within such jurisdictions, we would greatly appreciate you letting us know. Thank you. Diego Ponce Pérez [email protected] [email protected] ...

SyCipLaw was once again recognized by Asian Legal Business (ALB) as one of the Philippines’ 2017 Employer of Choice. The ALB Employer of Choice Rankings is based on survey responses private practice lawyers across Asia, as well as market knowledge obtained by ALB. Law firms are ranked on the basis of job satisfaction, remuneration, work-life balance, career prospects, mentorship, and job security, among others. Download a copy of the ALB Employer of Choice 2017: www.syciplaw ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has been shortlisted for Law Firm of the Year and Real Estate Team of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2017. Run by The Lawyer magazine, the awards are one of the most prestigious among the legal sector, recognising best practice and excellence across the board. The awards ceremony is taking place on the Tuesday 27 June at Grosvenor House, London. The award nominations come as the latest in a string of industry recognition of Shoosmiths’ legal expertise ...

National law firm Shoosmiths has appointed a trio of leading Commercial lawyers into its Leeds office, signalling the establishment of a pre-eminent Commercial Group in the region and furthering the firm’s presence in the city. The firm has appointed Alex Kirkhope, JP Buckley and James Wood-Robertson as commercial partners from DLA Piper where they each held the position of Legal Director ...

The entire corporate team of Cologne-based M&A boutique CORSO Rechtsanwälte LLP, private equity lawyer Dr. Andreas Lenz and corporate lawyers Dr. Vera Randel and Bastian Rieck, will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Cologne as of June 1, 2017. Lenz will work as an equity partner at the Cologne office, reinforcing the well-developed Private Equity and Corporate/M&A departments ...

Luxembourg, 9 May 2017 – As is the case every three years, the partners of Arendt & Medernach have decided on the new governance of the law firm. Claude Kremer has been elected as Co-Chairman of the firm alongside Guy Harles, whose mandate as Co-Chairman has been renewed. Jean-Marc Ueberecken has been re-elected Managing Partner. Guy Harles is a founding partner of Arendt & Medernach. For the past three years he has acted as Co-Chairman of the firm ...

Morgan & Morgan advised Cafetales, S.A. (Cafetales) and Energía Natural, S.A. (ENESA), in a joint venture in a special purpose vehicle, Emnadesa Holding, S.A., in favour of which ENESA transferred its ownership interest in Empresa Nacional de Energía, S.A., and Cafetales transferred its ownership interest in Hidroeléctrica Bajos del Totuma, S.A. Empresa Nacional de Energía, S.A ...

Delphi has been legal advisor to NIBE Industrier AB (publ) in connection with its acquisition of 80% of the shares in HT S.p.A., Susegana, Italy (“HT”). The company will become part of the NIBE Element business area. HT has since 1978 produced highly engineered heating solutions for heating, ventilation and air conditioning, commercial food products, packaging and other industrial applications. HT has one production facility in Italy and two in Romania. Revenue in 2016 amounted to approx ...

SyCipLaw’s Special Projects Department hosted a seminar on the Data Privacy Act of 2012, its implementing rules and the latest circulars of the National Privacy Commission (NPC) last March 24 at the 17th Flr. of the SyCipLaw Center. The session was designed to focus on how the Data Privacy Act (DPA) impacts organizations, compliance requirements, and the process of registering the data processing system with the NPC ...

On Friday, May 5, 2017, the creditors agreed to the insolvency plan submitted jointly by VfR Aalen (Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 e.V. Aalen), represented by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, and the insolvency administrator Dr. Holger Leichtle of Schultze & Braun at the deliberation and coordination hearing scheduled and held by Aalen insolvency court. This means that VfR Aalen’s self-administered reorganization has been successful ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that Chicago-based attorneys Heather Kramer and Melanie Chico will be presented with an Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service by The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. The award will be presented at the Eighteenth Annual Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service Award Ceremony on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in the James B ...

Düsseldorf's business founders will meet from May 5 to 12, 2017 for the second Start-up Week. On May 8 and 9, the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek will offer five seminars on corporate law, e-commerce, IP/IT, tax law, and employment law with the aim of promoting young entrepreneurs. “Our goal is to provide founders with legal know-how for their start in business,” said Dr. Kirsten Thiergart ...

Vault, publisher of influential rankings, ratings, and reviews on thousands of top employers and internship programs, has released its annual survey of the largest U.S. law firms and has again ranked Haynes and Boone, LLP in the Top 100 for overall prestige and the Top 20 in the country for diversity. In the Best Law Firms to Work For section, Haynes and Boone ranked in the Top 25 in three key categories: No. 16 in Firm Culture No. 18 in Career Outlook No ...

Haynes and Boone, LLP had yet another strong year in the recently released Chambers Global legal directory, with nine lawyers across eight practices recommended as leading providers of legal services in the international marketplace. Haynes and Boone was praised by researchers and clients on a number of fronts from the United States to Mexico and Latin America ...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Michael D. Weis to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a member in the firm’s Chicago office. Weis joins Dykema from Williams, Bax & Saltzman, where he served as chair of the firm’s Business and Transactional practice. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Weis’s practice focuses on general corporate representation, commercial real estate and finance and taxation for mid-size privately and publicly held entities ...