• Competition - South Africa

  Farmers take on Sasol in class action with help of agricultural union

  Following the settlement agreement between the Competition Commission and Sasol in respect of anti-competitive conduct in the fertilizer and phosphoric industries, the Transvaal Agricultural Union has announced that it will facilitate and coordinate a class action being brought by South African farmers for damages against Sasol.

• Intellectual Property - India

  Rights holders must show working of patents

  The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Trademarks and Designs recently issued a public notice to alert all patentees and licensees to the mandatory filing provision of a working statement on Form 27 as prescribed under Section 146(1) of the Patents Act 1970. The working statement must provide details of the patent's commercial use in India, starting from the third year of the grant.

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• $282 million rights issue

  First Pacific Company Ltd Davis Polk & Wardwell - William F Barron, Eugene C Gregor, James C Lin; Richards Butler LLP
  Syndicate of underwriters

• €2.2 billion acquisition

  EQT III fund Hengeler Mueller - Maximillian Schiessl, Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg; Clifford Chance LLP - Alan Inglis
  GIC Fund Hengeler Mueller - Maximillian Schiessl, Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg
  Springer Science+Business Media Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - David Sonter

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