Ogier has advised English entrepreneur and businessman Richard Caring on the £135m sale of the Wentworth Club to China-based Reignwood Group. The Wentworth Club provides the headquarters for golf’s PGA European Tour and hosts the annual BMW PGA Championship. It also played host to the 1953 Ryder Cup and, until 2007, the annual HSBC World […]
Ogier has announced that Sally Edwards, partner and head of the private client and trusts team, has been shortlisted for the Citywealth Power Women Awards 2015. The Citywealth Power Women Awards is an awards programme that aims to promote successful business women in the wealth sector. The 2015 awards will recognise individuals and companies that […]
On 10 September 2014, China Law Society and the African Legal Affairs Center of King & Capital co-hosted a seminar on China-Africa investment and trade law in Beijing. Judges, prosecutors and attorneys from more than 20 countries discussed practical experiences with a focus on African law. Bao Shaokun, vice-president of China Law Society, made the […]
Eversheds has advised Investec Bank as nomad, broker and sole bookrunner on the £165m AIM initial public offering (IPO) of Gamma Communications. The IPO saw the placing of 44,163,374 existing ordinary shares in Gamma at a price of 187 pence per share, raising gross proceeds of approximately £82.6m for the selling shareholders. On admission, Gamma […]
Eversheds has advised Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division on a deal to acquire logistics services provider Neovia Logistics from Platinum Equity and Caterpillar. Eversheds provided holistic employment, pensions and real-estate advice across EMEA, South America and the Asia-Pacific. The Eversheds team was led out of the London office by partner Fiona Bolton and senior associates […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) law advice to Charter Style International (the issuer) and Beijing Enterprises Group (BVI) Company (the guarantor) on the issue of CNY2.03bn (£206m) 5.80 per cent guaranteed bonds due 2024 by the issuer that are guaranteed by the guarantor. Bernadette Chen of Conyers’ Hong Kong office […]
Michael Conroy Harris, construction expert at Eversheds, has commented on the findings of the Lyons Review. He said: ‘While we have consensus that our changing society needs more homes to be built, we have no agreement on how what is a long-term, structural problem should be addressed.’ According to Conroy Harris, private housing outputs have […]
Attorneys Vaida Česnulevičiūtė Inga Malinauskaitė and Tomas Jakubauskas from Eversheds Saladžius have participated in an international business conference called ‘Silicon Valley Comes to the Baltics’ in Lithuania. The conference, which is in its third year, brings together around 2,500 participants and 20 speakers from the Silicon Valley. The guests and participants of the conference shared their […]
Eversheds attorneys-at-law Neringa Bubnaitytė and Tomas Jakubauskas recently attended an annual conference called ‘Redefining Landscape for Patent Protection in Europe’, which took take place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The aim of this regional conference was to review and evaluate current changes in patent protection within the European patent system, elaborating on its impact and supporting opportunities for […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has won an award for its work in the captive insurance space. The firm was named as the Offshore Law Firm in the 2014 US Captive Services Awards, organised by Captive Review and, at the same event, Bermuda was awarded the Offshore Captive Domicile. David Doyle and Chris Garrod, directors in […]
A new guide produced by DLA Piper, pro bono client Hollaback! and the Thomson Reuters Foundation offers the first-ever global legal resource on street harassment. The Know your Rights guide outlines laws and policies related to street harassment in 22 countries around the world, including Canada, India, Colombia, South Africa and the US. The guide is intended […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised Shine Power International and Beijing Enterprises Group (BVI) Company on the issue of HKD4.3bn (£345m) zero coupon guaranteed exchangeable bonds. The bonds, due 2019 by the issuer, are exchangeable into shares of Beijing Enterprises Holdings. The bonds are guaranteed by the guarantor. Bernadette Chen of Conyers’ Hong Kong office advised on […]