Legal Industry Articles

EvokAI Creative Labs Inc. consults Harneys on reverse takeover EvokAI Creative Labs Inc. reversed Sebastiani Ventures Corp. under a business combination arrangement with Harneys as BVI legal counsel. EvokAI began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange on April 14, 2023, [...]

Legal 500 Private Client guides 2023: five chapters Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, and Jersey are the five offshore law jurisdictions our lawyers have written Legal 500 private client comparison guides for. Keith Robinson, Partner The [...]

Harwell Campus consults Mishcon de Reya on Moderna development and pre-let Moderna established the Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre (MITC) on Oxfordshire’s 700-acre Harwell Campus to explore new pharmaceuticals. MITC’s research and development centre and medication development and production facility [...]

Royal Voluntary Service names Womble Bond Dickinson’s Nazmin Akthar Coronation Champion Womble Bond Dickinson lawyer Nazmin Akthar, from Newcastle, was designated a Coronation Champion for her volunteer work. Nazmin Akthar, Associate The Royal Voluntary Service honours remarkable UK volunteers with Coronation [...]

Ashoka WhiteOak Investment Trust IPO advised by Howard Kennedy Howard Kennedy’s investment trust team assisted Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust plc (“AWEM”) on its £30.5 million London Stock Exchange IPO. The IPO was the first investment trust IPO since November [...]

Polymateria receives finance advice from Stephenson Harwood Stephenson Harwood LLP helped Polymateria Limited, a UK biodegradable plastic technology startup fighting global plastic pollution, on its Series B fundraising deal. Richard Coleman, Partner ABC Impact and Indorama Ventures lead the £20 [...]

Fried Frank advises Deutsche Bank’s London Headquarters sale Fried Frank represented the seller in the City’s largest post-Covid transaction, Winchester House. Deutsche Bank’s London headquarters, 310,000-square-foot Winchester House, was sold to a joint venture of Malaysian Gamuda and Castleforge Partners. [...]

Wise Music Group acquires prominent music publishing firm with Keystone Law’s help Keystone Law advised Wise Music Group on its acquisition of a controlling interest in Edition Peters Group, a world-renowned music publisher. Paul Toolan, Partner Edition Peters is linked [...]

DAC Beachcroft ranks in eleven Legal 500 EMEA 2023 categories. The Legal 500’s EMEA 2023 edition ranks DAC Beachcroft in eleven practise areas and three countries. Lisa Broderick, Partner This year, The Legal 500 ranked DACB’s Dublin office in EU [...]

Kingsley Napley advises Harwell Campus on development, lease arrangement, and construction for Moderna Moderna, a biotechnology business developing mRNA treatments and vaccines, chose Harwell for its Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre (MITC). The MITC expansion will include a research, development, [...]