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• Law Firm Astrea significantly expands Brussels presence

  As from 2 May 2012, leading Antwerp-based law firm Astrea has significantly expanded its Brussels office with the recruitment of new Partner Steven De Schrijver and team including Senior Associates Thomas Daenens, Jeroen Mues and Pieter Paepe.
  - ASTREA

• Delphi advises on merger of OK-Q8 AB and Q8 Danmark A/S

  Delphi is advising OK-Q8 AB on the formation of a new Scandinavian group through OKQ8 AB’S acquisition of shares in Q8 Danmark A/S from Kuwait Petroleum Europe BV. Kromann Reumert in Copenhagen advised on the legal due diligence in Denmark.
  - Delphi

• GENI & KEBE Responds to Questions from British Business Delegation

  Investment UK- Francophone Africa
  - GENI & KEBE

• AVELLUM PARTNERS WON CHAMBERS EUROPE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE 2012

  Kyiv, 15May 2012 – Avellum Partners is proud to inform that it has won the Chambers Europe Award for Excellence 2012 for Ukraine and was recognized as Ukraine Law Firm of the Year. The award ceremony was held in Amsterdam on 10 May 2012.
  - Avellum Partners

• Sayenko Kharenko advised on USD 50 mln loan to Ukreximbank

  Sayenko Kharenko acted as legal counsel to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“EBRD”) in connection with USD 50 million loan to JSC “The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine” (“Ukreximbank”).
  - Sayenko Kharenko

• Ayia Napa marina contract

  Our Client MM Makronissos Marina has successfully completed the execution of the BOT contract with the Government concerning the construction and operation of a Marina and a Real Estate development in Ayia Napa.
  - Pamboridis LLC

• The Batang Kali Massacre trial - end of a Very British Cover-Up?

  In 1948, Scots Guardsmen shot dead 24 unarmed Chinese labourers in the rubber tapping village of Batang Kali, part of what was then colonial Malaya.
  - Bindmans LLP

• Bär & Karrer team successfully represents TeliaSonera in a Swiss Federal Supreme Court case

  In a judgment rendered on 30 April 2012 (4A_763/2011), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court dismissed an application of Çukurova Holding against Sonera Holding (a subsidiary of TeliaSonera, and at the same time Turkcell's biggest shareholder) for judicial review of an ICC award between the parties.
  - Bär & Karrer

• 2nd Kazakh-British Suppliers Forum was held on 27th of March 2012 in Astana

  On 27th of March 2012, the Second Kazakh-British Forum on partnership development among suppliers in the oil and gas industry service sector was held in Astana. About 80 Kazakhstan and British companies attended the event.
  - GRATA Law Firm

• Arbitral Tribunal Orders Respondents to Pay Advance on Costs

  Gabrielle Nater-Bass and Melissa Magliana of Homburger's Litigation | Arbitration practice team recently obtained a Partial Award ordering Respondents who refused to pay their share of the advance on costs in an ICC arbitration to make immediate payment to the ICC.
  - Homburger