Sumeet has nearly 20 years’ experience as a lawyer, with particular expertise in advising industrial and agricultural commodity traders on trade disputes, structured trade finance, trade credit insurance and shipping/charterparty matters.
We advised a syndicate of banks comprising acting as lenders on a loan granted for the sale and leaseback acquisition of a portfolio of 27 supermarkets from leading Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona.
Gateway 1 and Fire Statements are intended to integrate thinking on fire safety as part of the planning application process, but will Gateway 1 help implement Hackitt’s recommendations or become a paper exercise?
This article examines the decision Toppan Holdings Limited and another v Simply Construct (UK) LLP where the UK’s TCC has provided guidance on whether collateral warranties given on construction projects are “construction contracts” and whether an adjudication can be brought under collateral warranties.
Read the thirteenth edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
Maritime Assets and Structured Finance Partner Simon Petch relocates from Singapore to London.
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, reminders from the Court of Appeal of the importance of the open justice principle and the consensual nature of arbitration, as well as an interesting decision on the interaction between insolvency regimes and jurisdiction clauses.
Watson Farley & Williams has advised existing client Chesterfield Resources Plc (“Chesterfield”) on its successful placing to raise £800,000.
Following several PPP projects in the motorway sector, this is Germany’s first ever PPP project for a federal highway (bundesstrasse), with construction beginning in autumn 2021.
Read the twelfth edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
WFW advised Wattcrop on the negotiation and signing of joint investment agreements with GIG, which intends to develop a further 750 MW of capacity over the next four years.
Watson Farley & Williams has advised Genus plc (“Genus”), the world-leading animal genetics company, and Pig Improvement Company Deutschland GmbH (“PIC Deutschland GmbH”) on their sale of ABS Deutschland to World Wide Sires, Ltd.