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The Legal 500 UK 2025 Recognizes Cooley

Partner Rod Freeman was named to The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, and eleven partners were recognized as Leading Lawyers

Accessing European Capital: How Third-Party Management Companies Can Help

Yet accessing this capital requires a deep understanding or a partner who has a deep understanding of the regulatory, compliance and distribution landscape.

UKRE Update: HM Land Registry Practice and Process October 2024

Other changes are more technical in nature and relate to restrictions and the protection of third party interests.

Dentons Link Legal advised in QIP by Bank of Maharashtra

The placement document was filed with the stock exchanges i.e. BSE Limited and National Stock Exchange of India Limited.

Latham & Watkins Advises Mubadala Capital on Investment in Babel

A Madrid and UAE-based team represents Mubadala Capital on its investment in Spanish technology company.

Freshfields advises Mondi on expanding its European footprint

The transaction, which is subject to certain customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the first half of 2025.

Jersey for Sharia-compliant wealth management

In some cases, it is desirable for families to establish their own private investment structures to hold their investments.

Appleby Mauritius Awards 2024 Scholarships

This year’s scholarships are awarded to Marie Anaëlle Kimberly Julie, Marya Bibi Assia Fatadin and Kritin Deenoo.

Multi-Disciplinary Maples Team Advises StepStone Group on Fifth PE Secondaries Fund

The Fund closed with US$7.4 billion in capital commitments between the Fund and related separate accounts in September 2024 and is the largest commingled secondaries fund raised by StepStone to date.

Hogan Lovells advises banks on the establishment of debt issuance programmes of Volkswagen Financial Services AG and Volkswagen Financial Services Overseas AG

Volkswagen Financial Services Overseas AG will manage the non-European financial services business.

Macfarlanes advises Legal & General on establishment of £350m residential property development build-to-rent joint venture

The Macfarlanes team was led by private funds partner Harriet Miller and associate Jade Allman.

Addleshaw Goddard advises accountants Cooper Parry on double acquisition

The Addleshaw Goddard team advising on the deal included Paul Medlicott, Katie Parker, Dan Conway, Nelema Akhtar, Ethan Turner, Joel Power and Millie Johnson.

Freshfields advises Goldman Sachs and Berenberg on financing an acquisition by Bregal

The transaction concerns BSI Software Group which has been acquired by the private equity firm Bregal Unternehmerkapital.

Linklaters advises auxmoney on further ABS issuance in the amount of 500 million euros

The transaction, known as “Fortuna Consumer Loan ABS 2024-2”, increases auxmoney's total issuance volume in the public capital markets to over €2 billion.

Andrew Azarmi named Dentons’ San Francisco/Oakland office managing partner

A seasoned trial lawyer, Azarmi has served as lead counsel in numerous high-stakes disputes, including jury and bench trials, arbitrations and appeals.

White & Case advises NowCM on creation of digital and fully automated commercial paper platform

The White & Case team in Frankfurt that advised on the transaction was led by partner Karsten Wöckener and included local partner Felix Biedermann and associates Darleen Stöckl and Domenik Mack.

In-house legal and cyber experts must work together on cyber risk

The survey results formed part of a report by the Financial Times on the critical role in-house lawyers can play in protecting the business.

Updates to Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Regulations: SCCs, Guidelines and More

In addition, SDAIA issued standard contractual clauses for personal data transfers outside of the Kingdom.

Clifford Chance advises ABN AMRO on its inaugural tokenized commercial paper issuance

The transaction took place in the context of the ECB trials and experiments, with the cash leg being settled in atomic fashion on the French Central Bank's DL3S Platform.

Dentons advises Arada Developments LLC on the US$150 million tap issuance of its US$400 million sukuk due 2029

The tap issuance increased the overall amount of sukuk outstanding (at US$550 million) to above benchmark size.

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