11.12.2003

City firm Denton Wilde Sapte is this week celebrating a trio of new instructions for its affordable housing group.

It has been appointed by English Partnerships to advise on funding strategies for the delivery of affordable housing in London; by Sainsbury's on its retail and residential developments across England and Wales; and by the funders of the regeneration of the Kings Crescent Estate in Hackney, east London, which will create almost 900 homes.

City practice Charles Russell has been engaged by the Ministry of Defence to advise on its contracts with media companies.

Also in the City, Norton Rose has won a competitive tender to advise Islamic House of Britain - the first Islamic bank to offer consumer banking products to the UK Muslim population.

The firm will advise on the development of those products.

Burges Salmon in Bristol has won a tender to advise the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Arbiter, a position established by the Greater London Act 1999 to give advice where requested on any matter relating to the London Underground PPP agreements.

Manchester firm Rowlands has been appointed by construction firm Taylor Woodrow to its panel of advisers for clients purchasing properties in Spain.

City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse has advised new client Ejendomsinvest, a Danish property investment company, on the acquisition of two health clubs and a Woolworths store.

Essex County Council has appointed City firm Nabarro Nathanson to advise on its proposed waste management project, which will deal with all the household waste in Essex for a 25-30 year period.

Eversheds and Wragge & Co were among those bidding for the work.

City firm Herbert Smith is acting for UK biotechnology group Cambridge Antibody Technology for the first time, in litigation against pharmaceutical company Abbott.

The contractual dispute centres on the amount of royalty payments Abbott should pay on the sale of a treatment for arthritis.

City practice CMS Cameron McKenna has completed its first major transaction for global software solutions and services group Misys, advising on the 20 million sale of its UK back-office products business to Rhyme Systems.

City firm Macfarlanes has advised private equity house PPM Ventures for the first time since winning a place on its panel, acting on the 56 million acquisition of discount department store TJ Hughes from JJB Sports, advised by Addleshaw Goddard.