Shearman & Sterling advised General Electric on the transaction concluded in order to combine its Oil & Gas - Nuovo Pignone division with Baker Hughes, which led to the creation of Baker Hughes, a GE Company. The transaction, which from an Italian tax law perspective presented some particularly complex issues, was worth approximately $32 million […]
Australian company Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. (ALL.AX) announced that it has acquired Israeli social gaming developer Plarium Global Limited for $500 million cash. The deal is expected to close before the end of this year in December; DLA Piper, who worked together with global counsel Herzog Fox & Neeman to advise Citi (sole financial adviser) on its […]
Dr Stephen Wright worked as a consultant physician at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD), one of the hospitals that comprise University College London NHS Foundation Trust, for almost 30 years. During that period he spent three years in Saudi Arabia at the Medical School in Riyadh and had previously worked in Nigeria and Nepal. […]
The work of offshore trustees, and the UK lawyers they work with, is more challenging than ever. With a global emphasis on greater transparency, and continued pressure on revenue authorities to increase the tax take, the fiscal and regulatory burden keeps growing. Nerine Group of Fiduciaries In-House Legal Counsel Mark Biddlecombe examines the new reality […]
Jan Morgenstern is Founder and Managing Partner of MORGENSTERN (www.m-kanzlei.de), a German law firm which is highly specialised on Information Technology and Data Protection in the international context. Stepping beyond the borders of isolated legal advice and services Jan Morgenstern noticed very soon that with regard to Information Technology and Data Security there are a […]
An article written on trade, commercial law and litigation, by leading expert Philip Lee Whilst my title is Managing Partner I am not convinced I fulfil that role. My colleagues, who are heads of their various departments, do an amazing job at managing their own departments. What I try to focus on is providing […]
The last we spoke with Gert Demmink, he spoke on the fact that billions of dollars are spent on futile efforts, like employing the proverbial Chinese Army of compliance officers, most of whom may know a bit about AML, but next to nothing about the actual business and transactions. Gert offered some valuable insights to […]
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