Advice to Trafigura-UCP consortium on acquisition of Essar Oil Limited

The USD 12.9 billion purchase of India’s Essar Oil Ltd by a consortium including Trafigura, one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world, UCP Investment Group, an independent, private investment group and Rosneft, the leader of Russia’s petroleum industry, has now been formally completed. The Trafigura-UCP consortium and Rosneft each acquired a […]

Be prepared for the EU General Data Protection Regulation

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“the GDPR”), which was approved on 14 April 2016, is the biggest change in EU data protection law for 20 years. It replaces Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, which currently regulates […]