Osborne Clarke advised the AKNO Group in the structuring and granting of development green financing provided by UniCredit, as lender, arranging bank and agent bank, for the development of a 88,188 sqm real estate complex for logistics use located in the Municipality of Nogarole Rocca (VR). The Nogarole complex, located...

Osborne Clarke and Greenberg Traurig Santa Maria advised, respectively, Banco BPM S.p.A. as mandated lead arranger, original lending bank and agent bank, and Kervis SGR S.p.A, on behalf of the reserved closed-end real estate alternative investment fund Kervis Real Estate Fund II, as beneficiary, in a financing transaction aimed, inter...

Deborah Harvey and Hugo Lidbetter participate in the "Aurora Energy Unplugged" podcast with Casmir Lorenz, Co-Head of Advisory for Central Europe at Aurora Energy Research. In this podcast they discuss the current and future view on long-term offtake contracts, including: the shift from subsidy support to revenue support/sharing; the role...

The major energy challenges facing the new government of the UK have been well rehearsed and debated in the months leading to the election. There remains the longstanding energy trilemma of energy affordability, security of supply and the achievement of net zero carbon emissions. Behind the trilemma sit complex issues...

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) this week officially launched the arms-length body Great British Nuclear (GBN), as originally pledged in the 2023 Spring Budget. Tasked with accelerating the delivery of nuclear projects across the country, interim GBN chair Simon Bowen stated: " GBN is core to...

The initial deployment of Russian troops in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions this week has escalated into a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, bringing further sanctions from the UK and the EU as well as the US. Following the swift imposition by the UK, the EU and the US of the...

Open finance and open banking has the potential to promote innovation and benefit customers – but effective and ethical implementation will be challenging.

Fund costs are attracting the attention of European legislators as they tighten retail investor protection rules. The European Commission issued a proposal in May this year – the 2023/0167 (COD) – on the assessment of undue costs charged to undertakings for the collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and alternative...