Global law firm Dentons has advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on a loan facility of up to €100 million to entities owned by American businessman and philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen and supported by the Hansen Ukrainian Mission (HUM) to develop a scalable affordable housing platform in Ukraine.

Vietnam: Vietnam has officially created its first International Financial Centre (the “Centre”), split between Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, under a “one Centre, two locations” model. The goal is to attract international capital, talent, and new types of financial and commodities trading into Vietnam through a more flexible, business‑friendly framework than the rest of the country by way a number of measures including strong tax incentives, simplified market entry and operations, a favourable HR and immigration regime and flexible foreign exchange and capital flows.

Dentons advised PNE Group, a leading German renewables developer and wind power producer, on the sale of a wind farm project located in southwest Poland to a major global energy player.

France: Using Easter as a pretext to call colleagues cloches (“bells,” but also, colloquially, “idiots”) is unfortunately more common than one might think. In 2019, the Orléans Court of Appeal referred to a bailiff’s report establishing that an employee accused of moral harassment had sent the following text message to a colleague on Easter Sunday, together with a drawing of a chocolate rabbit: “If you want Easter eggs, don’t forget to send an email to one or more cloches… For me, job done!!!”

United Kingdom: The decarbonisation of public sector buildings has been on the UK government's agenda for a number of years, with the built environment representing a substantial portion of the UK's carbon footprint and the reduction of that portion being key to meeting net zero and other environmental targets.