Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) Partner Ashwani Kochhar and Associate William Reddie have advised Capita Commercial Insurance Services Limited (Capita) on the purchase of a minority stake in managing general agent (MGA) Infinity Agency Limited, which specialises...
Clyde & Co’s global aviation finance team has advised Indian low cost carrier and fourth-biggest airline by market share, SpiceJet, on the purchase of 42 Boeing 737 MAX jets. Valued at USD 4.4 billion manufacturer list...
K&L Gates LLP has advised Dubai-based developer Emaar Properties PJSC on the acquisition of an adult dinosaur fossil skeleton, which was put on display at The Dubai Mall last month. Dating from the Jurassic Period, the...
Latham & Watkins advised the Joint Lead Managers, HSBC Saudi Arabia Limited and Saudi Fransi Capital Company, on Saudi Electricity Company’s (SEC) issuance of SAR4.5 billion (USD1.2 billion) Sukuk Certificates. The transaction represents the first public...
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...
