Bond Dickinson has advised Gentoo Genie Limited on the entry into a new £40m funding agreement with the Greater London Authority. The funding will be made available in connection with the launch of the Genie Home Purchase Plan product in London as Gentoo seeks to deliver 2000 new homes in the capital. Trowers and Hamlins […]
Global M&A to exceed USD3.4 trillion by 2017 Stand out markets for predicted high transactional growth in next 5 years include developed economies The Netherlands, UK and Sweden; BRIC nations China/Hong Kong and India; and emerging markets Mexico, Egypt and Vietnam Most active sectors will be Healthcare, Pharma, Consumer Goods, Telecoms and Financials Emerging markets-related […]
DLA Piper acted for Essence Corporate Finance (Hong Kong) Limited as the sole sponsor, Essence International Securities (Hong Kong) Limited as the sole global coordinator, Essence International Securities (Hong Kong) Limited and Haitong International Securities Company Limited as the joint bookrunners and joint lead managers and SBI China Capital Financial Services Limited as the co-lead […]
Leading offshore law firm Appleby acted as Bermuda and Isle of Man counsels to security agent DNB Asia Ltd. (DNB Bank) on its US$300 million term loan facility provided to Crystal Acquisition Company Limited (Borrower). The loan facility, provided together with Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, was guaranteed by […]
41% more worker time is spent dealing with customers outside traditional 9 to 5 office hours, compared with three years ago, creating a rapid demand for 24 hour services. A study into incoming business call volumes by call answering service alldayPA, tracked over a million calls from a two year period, to reveal the working […]
The European Commission has published its first Solvency II third-country equivalence decisions, and they include a few surprises. The Commission has decided that Switzerland is Solvency II equivalent on all three bases - i.e. for group capital calculation purposes, for group supervisory purposes, and for reinsurance purposes. There's no surprise here. These decisions will now be considered by the European Parliament and […]
Conveyancers face mounting pressure to maintain and grow their business as total transactions for the first quarter of 2015 fell 16% from Q4 2014 and 5% year-on-year, according to the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the search provider. The Tracker – which uses Land Registry data to assess competitive pressures in the conveyancing […]
WOLF THEISS ADVISES SLOVENIAN BREWERY PIVOVARNA LAŠKO ON ITS EUR 223 MILLION SALE TO HEINEKEN Vienna, Ljubljana – 16 April 2015 – A majority stake in the leading Slovenian brewery Pivovarna Laško has been sold to the Dutch global giant Heineken. International law firm WOLF THEISS advised Laško throughout the nearly one year process. Four […]
Continual tinkering to the pensions system will cause people to lose confidence Long-term savers need encouragement to take on the burden of self-provision, rather than finding more barriers around tax-efficient saving Andy James, head of retirement planning, Towry comments on various proposed changes by the main political parties in the 2015 General Election Pensions reforms […]
Following yesterday's Budget, Dawn Register, partner in the Tax Dispute Resolution at BDO, commented: "A popular message for voters is the ongoing campaign against 'serial tax avoiders'. The difficulty will be defining who is a caught by these new rules, and legislation with retrospective effect always leaves a nasty taste even if most people agree […]
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