01 Apr 11
Leading international law firm, Watson, Farley & Williams,(“WFW”) is pleased to announce the successful representation of Britannia Bulk plc (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) on behalf of the joint liquidators (Malcolm Cohen, Mark Shaw and Shay Bannon of BDO Stoy Hayward LLP) against Bulk Trading S.A. in a first instance decision in the English Commercial Court. Part one of the trial of the US$17m case related to the ...
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28 Mar 11
International law firm, Watson, Farley & Williams, is pleased to announce the appointment on 1 April of partner Dr. Nikolaus Krienke, LL.M. (NYU) to its German practice. He will head the firm’s employment team in Munich and Hamburg, providing employment, labour and occupational pension law advice to national and international clients. Dr. Krienke joins from Clifford Chance, where he worked as an employment lawyer at the ...
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24 Mar 11 Watson, Farley & Williams, a leading international law firm, is advising leading wind farm developer PNE WIND AG on the project contracts and the project financing for the construction of German offshore wind farm “Gode Wind II” which is located north of the island of Norderney (252 MW). PNE WIND AG specialises in the planning and development of wind farm projects both onshore and offshore. PNE WIND AG has so far installed 97 ...
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17 Mar 11 The Singapore office of Watson, Farley & Williams LLP advised a syndicate of international lenders led by BNP Paribas as agent, in relation to a US$159,000,000 post delivery facility extended to J. Lauritzen A/S to enable its subsidiaries to refinance the acquisition of five product tankers and two gas carriers built in China, which financing was supported by buyer's credit insurance from the China Export and Credit Insurance ...
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17 Mar 11 The Singapore office of Watson, Farley & Williams LLP advised a Marshall Islands incorporated company managed by DVB Investment Management N.V. in relation to the acquisition of a sizable portfolio of marine containers from Capital Intermodal Limited group and Xines Limited and the leveraging of such acquisition, which was funded by ING Bank N.V. This complicated cross border marine containers acquisition and financing ...
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11 Mar 11 Watson, Farley & Williams Bangkok office has appointed Christopher Osborne, a highly experienced senior associate from Herbert Smith Thailand and two associates in his team, Veeravi Benjayati and Chai Lertvittayachaikul, to strengthen its Corporate practice. Chris has worked in Asia since 2001 both in Bangkok and Singapore. He focuses on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures involving companies from Asia, Australia, Europe ...
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11 Mar 11 International law firm, Watson, Farley & Williams, is pleased to announce the appointment of Luis Soto to the Madrid office as a partner in its International Tax Group. His appointment will bring the total number of the firm’s worldwide partners to 105. Luis will join on 14 March from the Madrid office of Landwell PriceWaterhouseCoopers Tax & Legal Services. He is a domestic and international tax lawyer with a focus on project ...
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08 Mar 11 International law firm, Watson, Farley & Williams (WFW) and Toby Landau, QC of Essex Court Chambers won Global Arbitration Review’s prestigious “Court win of the year” for 2010 for our successful representation in the English Supreme Court of the Government of Pakistan in Dallah v Government of Pakistan. Leading arbitrators and practitioners from across the globe gathered for Global Arbitration Review’s (GAR) first annual Awards ...
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01 Mar 11 Watson, Farley & Williams, a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (“NORD/LB”) on the acquisition financing of one of two sections of Finsterwalde, one of Germany’s largest solar parks (42 MWp), located in Brandenburg. The solar farm was built by Q-Cells International GmbH, then divided as part of the financing process and sold to two separate operating ...
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24 Jan 11 Watson, Farley & Williams, a leading international law firm, has recently advised NYSE-listed Seaspan Corporation on aspects of its US$250m public offering of 9.5% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series C Preferred Shares”) at US$25 per share. Dividends will be payable on the Series C Preferred Shares at an initial rate of 9.5% per annum of the stated liquidation preference. At the date of this ...
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