Jones Day advises Corovest International and Trito Investment Fund Limited on Joint Venture

LONDON -- Jones Day advised Corovest International Limited and Trito Investment Fund Limited on their Joint Venture with Modus Crewe Limited. Corovest and Trito invested approximately £2.5 million in the joint venture company which then purchased a shopping centre in Crewe for £13.25 million. Debt finance was provided by Nationwide.

The Jones Day team comprised Alistair Houghton (Corporate) and William Oliver (Banking).

The joint venture vehicle was advised by DLA (Patrick Duffy and Hans Scheiwiller) and Modus Crewe was advised by Wacks Caller (Dov Black).

Jones Day is a leading City of London law firm. An international law firm with 28 offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, the firm has more than 2,100 lawyers with approximately 200 in London and provides a full service practice.

In a clean sweep of the rankings published by three recognised financial information services (Thomson Financial, Bloomberg and Mergermarket), Jones Day ranked number 1 among legal advisors in the number of M&A deals announced for 2003.