Trowers & Hamlins is delighted to announce that that Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the Sapphire consortium have reached financial close on a project to build 390 extra care apartments across three sites in Stoke. Trowers & Hamlins has advised Your Housing Group, a member of the Sapphire consortium, on this project since the consortium made its initial bid to deliver the scheme.
Trowers & Hamlins is delighted to have acted for regional housing association Adactus Housing Group in securing £25m long-term borrowing from Legal & General. The loan to Adactus is the sixth direct investment deal by Legal & General in the social housing sector and the first of its kind in the North West.
International law firm Trowers & Hamlins is advising Jordanian public shareholding company National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) on its joint project with Attarat Power Company (APCO) to develop and operate a ground-breaking, 470 megawatt, oil shale-fired Independent Power Project (IPP) in Jordan.
Trowers & Hamlins advised Kent County Council on a PFI agreement worth £100 million, which will see over 230 units of new extra care and specialist housing delivered across Kent, including the provisions of services over the next 25 years.
Dubai-based Corporate partner Jennifer Bibbings was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2014, announced on 13 June. The honour is bestowed on British nationals who contribute valuable service to the UK and its people in the areas of arts and sciences, public services outside the civil service, or charitable work.
Housing and Regeneration partner Rob Beiley will speak at the Commercial & Residential Rooftop Solar PV Conference in central London on 1 July 2014. The event is being held jointly by the British Photovoltaic Association (BPVA) and the Department of Energy & Climate Change and will examine how government and the industry can work together to unlock the potential in the commercial and domestic rooftop markets.
Trowers & Hamlins is pleased to have advised new client The Intertain Group Limited ("Intertain"), the TSXV-listed online gaming company, on its acquisition of leading online bingo provider, Mandalay Media Limited ("Mandalay").
Trowers & Hamlins has advised Affordable Housing Finance Plc (AHF), a subsidiary company of The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC), on its recent government-guaranteed bond. The £208 million, 28-year bond carries a ‘AAA’ rating from Standard and Poor's and is believed to be the tightest priced public bond transaction in the affordable housing sector’s 26-year history of accessing private finance.
Trowers & Hamlins has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Education to provide all legal advisory services to the Education Funding Agency (EFA) for its national free school, university technical college, and studio school programme of building and refurbishing at least one hundred schools a year.
Three developments will see over 650 new homes delivered in Hampshire
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