• Environment - Switzerland

  Supreme Court Settles Dispute on Allocation of Clean-Up Costs

  Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

  In a recent case regarding contamination at Zurich airport, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that the Zurich Office for Waste, Water, Energy and Air Quality, and not the Federal Office of Civil Aviation, was to be considered the competent authority to allocate clean-up costs under the Environmental Protection Law.

• Litigation - Kazakhstan

  Rules of Evidence in Commercial Litigation: Be Prepared

  McGuireWoods Kazakhstan LLP

  Foreign investors involved in commercial litigation in Kazakhstan are often unprepared for the rigidity of the rules of evidence under the Civil Procedure Code and may not fully appreciate the significance of collecting appropriate evidence in advance.

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• £3.5 billion investment

  HH Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Allen & Overy LLP - Jonathan Mellor, Louise Wolfson, David S Hughes, Douglas Landy, Kenneth Rivlin;
  Barclays plc Clifford Chance LLP - Simon Sinclair

• C$2 billion acquisition

  Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corp Stikeman Elliott LLP - David RJ Lefebvre, Susan M Hutton, Barbara B Johnston, Douglas Richardson; Vinson & Elkins LLP - Paul C Deemer, Xiao Yong, Shelley Barber, François Feuillat, Ayman A Khaleq, David R. Johnson;
  Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP - John H Craig, Jeffrey P Roy, Joan Beck, André Boivin;
  Scotia Waterous Inc ;
  Lehman Brothers Asia Ltd

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