Instructions of the week - 20.06.2002

London firm Constant & Constant is part of a consortium which has finalised a contract to advise the Electric Power Industry of Montenegro Joint Stock Company on the $645 million Moraca River project.

The firm has teamed up with PricewaterhouseCoopers as financial and economic adviser, and engineers Mott MacDonald.

The project, which will take at least four years to complete, involves the construction of four dams on the Moraca River to provide electrical power.

The unique focus of Manchester firm Fox Brooks Marshall in targeting Australian mining companies has paid off once more, as it has been signed up as adviser to Australian-listed company Gold Mines of Sardinia, which is moving its corporate domicile to the UK.

In nearby Stockport, O'Neill Patient has picked up a new client in Europress, a supplier of children's educational games.

Europress has began a rights acquisition programme, which will see it produce a range of educational games in CD format, based on famous characters such as Captain Scarlett, Bagpuss, The Clangers and Mr Men.

City firm DLA has been appointed by a property investment vehicle, The Focus Fund, to advise on its property investments.

The fund is a joint venture between the Universities Superannuation Scheme, advised by DLA, and Baring Houston & Saunders, advised by Macfarlanes.

DLA has also picked up a new intellectual property client.

It is acting for US biopharmaceutical company Valentis, and its UK subsidiary PolyMASC Pharmaceuticals, on its European patent enforcement strategy, which has begun with the firm bringing patent infringement proceedings in Germany.

City firm Nicholson Graham & Jones won the instruction to advise start-up New York broker dealer Sky Capital Holdings on its admission to the Alternative Investment Market, which should give the company a market capitalisation of 31 million.

Eversheds has won a competitive tender to be reappointed as adviser to the University of Bradford.