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Stephenson Harwood

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What we say about the firm's legal practice in France

Aviation

Within Aviation, Stephenson Harwood is a second tier firm,

The up-and-coming Stephenson Harwood has a strong finance practice with Richard Pearson and Edward Campbell, who advise leading financial institutions, including BNP Paribas. The ‘excellent and always available’ team is also strong for leasing work and is developing its jet financing practice. The firm also impresses with its growing client portfolio, which includes banks, airline companies (Air Asia) and lessors (Volito Aviation). The team recently assisted new Indonesian client Lion Air on a range of matters including the financing of six Boeing 738.

Aviation finance

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Banking and finance

Within Banking and finance,

Headed by Anne Lapierre, a specialist in the renewable field, Norton Rose LLP’s main assets are its large banking client base and its leading asset finance expertise, through key partners Georges Paterson, Martin Gdanski, Christine Ezcutari and Marc Hamilton – shipping finance expert Alain Gautron left the firm to join Stephenson Harwood in 2010. The aviation finance practice is second to none in the market, the team advising Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Oberbank on the financing of Lufthansa’s first Airbus A380. The firm also deals with acquisition finance work through Erwan Héricotte.

Shipping finance

Within Shipping finance, Stephenson Harwood is a first tier firm,

Norton Rose LLP’s supremacy in the French market suffered a severe blow following the departures of Alain Gautron and tax lease expert Stéphane Salou for Stephenson Harwood. The practice is now led by Christine Ezcutari, assisted by Laurence Toxé on the tax side. Highlights included advising Société Générale on the tax lease financing of six container ships for CMA CGM.


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China

Offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou

France

Offices in Paris

Greece

Offices in Piraeus

Hong Kong

Offices in Hong Kong

Kenya

London

Offices in London

Libya

Nigeria

Singapore

Offices in Singapore

Legal Developments by:
Stephenson Harwood

  • Companies should plan now to minimise their pension protection levy

    The amount that pension schemes have to pay to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) for the year 2006/07 may have increased by as much as five times the previous year's levy. Employers who ultimately bear the cost of many pension schemes will need to make plans now to ensure the levy payable for the year 2008/09 is kept to a minimum.
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Legal Developments in France

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  • CHINA - PERSONAL TAXATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY : CHINESE AND FOREIGN NATIONALS ON AN EQUAL FOOTING

    The People's Republic of China has initiated an overhaul of its social security system, reformed the personal taxation regime and has extended the scope of these laws to foreigners residing in China.
  • MOROCCO TO BECOME THE LEADING FINANCIAL PLACE IN AFRICA

    The Kingdom of Morocco is supporting the ambition of becoming the leading financial place for Africa. In this context, a wave of draft laws is to be passed and implemented within the following months, amongst which, the Law No. 53.08, setting up a new financial authority, and the Law No. 54.08, reforming public offering rules, are of paramount importance to Moroccan and foreign issuers, and financial institutions.
  • ACQUISITIONS IN CHINA : ASSET OR SHARE DEAL?

    The opportunities offered to foreign investors by the Chinese mergers and acquisitions market are increasing every year: in 2010, transactions involving foreign companies came to 60.1 billion euros, an increase of 21.2% compared with 2009. Seen from the West, where markets are declining, all sectors of the Chinese economy seem to be undergoing promising development and the statistics indicate that the Middle Empire will be a lasting springboard for growth.
  • Prime de Partage des Profits

    Le dispositif L’article 1er de la loi de financement rectificative de la Sécurité sociale pour 2011 oblige les sociétés commerciales de 50 salariés et plus, dont les dividendes par part sociale ou par action sont en augmentation par rapport à la moyenne des deux années précédentes, à verser une prime à l’ensemble de leurs salariés
  • BULGARIA MARKET OVERVIEW

    Types of investors The private equity (PE) funds that are active in Bulgaria are not raised or registered in the country. Some Bulgarian PE funds were raised recently, but there are no statistics as to the sources of their funding, their number, the funds that were accumulated, etc.
  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING COMMITMENTS

    THE PROCEDURE IS CLARIFIED, BUT MAY COMMITMENTS APPLY WITHOUT LIMIT?
  • Landmark decision by French Competition Authority in conditioned LPG case

    cartel case closed after discovery that leniency application was largely based on forgeries and rejection of collective dominant position objection.
  • 2012 supplementary budget

    The second supplementary budget published in the Official Gazette September 19, 2011 provides for two key measures that affect the deferral of tax losses and taxation of capital gains realized on the sale of equity securities .
  • Actualité législative fiscale

    Au delà des mesures applicables à l’ensemble des contribuables (telles que la limitation du report des déficits ou la réforme du mode de calcul des plus values sur cessions de participations),le plan de réduction des déficits annoncé le 24 août dernier par le gouvernement comprend des mesures qui intéressent spécifiquement les acteurs du secteur financier.
  • Réforme fiscale

    À la une Parmi les mesures annoncées par le Premier Ministre dans le cadre du plan de réduction des déficits, deux d’entre elles sont susceptibles d’affecter de nombreuses entreprises