A merger between Klavins Ellex and GLIMSTEDT & Partners has created Latvia’s largest law firm and a giant in the Baltics. Operating under the name Klavins Ellex, the new firm will have 278 lawyers across offices in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, making it a heavyweight in the Baltic legal market and the largest law firm in […]
Pinsent Masons recently advised on the sale of Skyscanner in what is believed to be the largest corporate transaction in Scotland this year. The deal, which was announced on the U.S. Stock Exchange, will see Skyscanner sold to CTrip.com International, China’s largest travel agency for £1.4bn. Pinsent Masons has a long relationship with Skyscanner, which […]
Dentons has advised GLL Real Estate Partners, a Munich-based international real estate investor and asset manager, on the acquisition of Váci 1, a landmark retail and office building in downtown Budapest for a separate account mandate from Bayerische Versorgungskammer. Horizon Development, a Hungarian real estate development, property management, leasing and marketing company, sold its 100 […]
The £3bn megamerger between King & Wood Mallesons and Philadelphia-headquartered Morgan Lewis & Bockius would have created the world’s second largest law firm by turnover and would have satisfied KWM’s long-held desire to complete its global footprint with a US tie-up. StuarBut that is not going to happen. Negotiations between the two firms have apparently […]
European law firm Fieldfisher has confirmed that it is joining forces with local commercial specialist Hill Hofstetter, an 18-partner commercial firm based in London and Birmingham that specializes in corporate, litigation, real estate and employment law. According to Fieldfisher managing partner Michael Chissick, the alliance between the two firms will drive the firm towards further […]
Schoenherr advised Italian private equity firm Quadrivio SGR S.p.A. (“Quadrivio”) on the Hungarian and Slovakian legal aspects of the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Farmol S.p.A. (“Farmol”), an Italy-based producer of aerosols and liquid-based specialty products and its Hungarian subsidiary Farmol Hungary Kft, from Old Mill Holding S.p.A., an Italian investment holding company. […]
Austria Microsystems AG (AMS) signed a contract for the acquisition of Singapore-based Heptagon Advanced Micro-Optics PTE. LTD (Heptagon). Sellers are primarily a number of renowned financial investors and the management and employees of Heptagon. It is expected that the closing of the transaction will be carried out in the next three months. The purchase price for […]
Dentons advised Liberty Global, the world’s largest international TV and broadband company, on the acquisition of Multimedia Polska, Poland’s number three cable operator with 1.6 million homes passed, mainly through its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable network, serving 832,000 unique customers who subscribed to 1.4 million subscription services consisting of 643,000 video, 493,000 broadband and 254,000 telephony […]
Clifford Chance has recalibrated its presence in Saudi Arabia in the wake of local authorities questioning the legality of the firm’s office in Riyadh. The magic circle firm has forged an association with newcomer Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm (AS&H). Fahad Abuhimed of Clifford Chance will take the role of managing partner along with colleagues […]
With an aim to speed up Oi SA’s in-court reorganization, debt holders of the telecommunications giant’s 65.4 billion reais are mulling over a debt relief plan. The latest preliminary and confidential plan reportedly includes a five-year grace period and lowering borrowing costs. Earlier this summer, Oi filed for Brazil’s largest in-court reorganization plan ever after […]
