Legal Business

Deal watch: Corporate activity in June 2016

NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT AND A&O LEAD NUCLEAR JV

Horizon Nuclear Power was advised by Allen & Overy as it announced three joint venture partners for a £10bn nuclear power plant in Wales. Norton Rose Fulbright advised Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, one of three joint venture partners for the 2,700MW plant. The other members of the joint venture are US-firm Bechtel and Japanese company JGC Corporation. These companies were advised by their in-house counsel.

 

US FIRMS CONNECT AS MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINKEDIN

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have helped Microsoft to acquire networking site LinkedIn in a tech deal worth $26.2bn, the largest in Microsoft’s history. Simpson Thacher acted for Microsoft while Wilson Sonsini took the lead for LinkedIn.