The Bahrain and Dubai offices of international legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright have advised Ithmaar Bank BSC (acting as the lenders) on a social and affordable housing PPP project in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The PPP project, a first for the Kingdom and the GCC...
Dentons and Olswang have advised on the acquisition of Readers Digest by Mike Luckwell, the venture capitalist behind Bob the Builder, from Better Capital for the nominal sum of £1 as reported by The Lawyer. Dentons...
Thomas Cook Group plc announces today that it has entered into an agreement to sell Gold Medal, a UK-based distributor of long-haul scheduled flights, hotels and car hire, to dnata, the Dubai-based travel company that is...
Linklaters has won a mandate from HM Treasury to advise on its first-ever Sukuk issue, it was reported by The Lawyer. The project will be led out of Linklaters’ City office by capital markets partner Elaine...
A group of firms including Davis Polk and Willkie Farr & Gallagher advised on a £27bn (USD45bn) all-stock deal to combine the two biggest cable providers in the US. Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison and...
Freshfields has advised the Guardian Media Group in its £600m sale of a 50.1 per cent stake in Trader Media Group (TMG) to Apax Partners. Corporate partner Simon Marchant led the deal to sell its remaining...
Mayer Brown is advising on the USD1.2bn restructuring and USD133m sale of ATP Oil & Gas UK to Alpha Petroleum, the UK subsidiary of private equity house Petroleum Equity. The firm has been advising the bankrupt...
Eversheds has worked with Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) on a 25-year water supply deal with Qatar Electricity & Water Company (QEWC) worth 500 million USD which reached financial close in Doha on 9...
Islamic Finance specialists at premier regional law firm Foot Anstey have recently advised Shari’ah-compliant investment advisory firm 90 North Real Estate Partners LLP on their £40million acquisition of ten care homes on behalf of a Middle...
Tribonian Law Advisors (“TLA”) acted as lead counsel to The Investment Dar K.S.C. (“TID” or the “Company”) in a transaction that involved a USD1.2 billion settlement in kind with just under a third of its creditors...
