Noerr advised Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) in setting up a strategic partnership in the German cycling market. Together with the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), it intends in particular to revive the most important German stage race in road cycling, the Deutschland Tour.
Houthoff Buruma represented Eli Global, LLC in the acquisition of all the outstanding shares in the Dutch life insurance company Nederlandsche Algemeene Maatschappij van Levensverzekering Conservatrix N.V.
Houthoff Buruma team included: Willem de Nijs Bik , Hein Vencken , Berry van Wijk , Bastiaan Siemers , Jan Pieter Uittenbroek , Joost Kool , Baukje Dreimüller , Harry Sanders , Jean Paul Dresen , Wiet Crobach , Roland de Greef , Anouk Boutens , Barbara Nederhof , Martine Bijkerk , Helena Sprenger
Houthoff Buruma represented Eli Global, LLC in the acquisition of all the outstanding shares in the Dutch life insurance company Nederlandsche Algemeene Maatschappij van Levensverzekering Conservatrix N.V.
Houthoff Buruma team included: Willem de Nijs Bik , Hein Vencken , Berry van Wijk , Bastiaan Siemers , Jan Pieter Uittenbroek , Joost Kool , Baukje Dreimüller , Harry Sanders , Jean Paul Dresen , Wiet Crobach , Roland de Greef , Anouk Boutens , Barbara Nederhof , Martine Bijkerk , Helena Sprenger
The Firm represented China Huaxin Post & Telecommunication Economy Development Center ("China Huaxin") in connection with the formation of Nokia Shanghai Bell Joint Venture as a result of Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent and subsequent integration of Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. (ASB), a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent and Huaxin, and Nokia's China business. ASB will be renamed Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd.
Advising Business & Decision and the family group Bensabat in connection with the entry of exclusive negociations with Orange, to sell a controlling stake of around 67 % of the share capital of Business & Decision, a company listed on Euronext Paris, to Orange Business Services.
Nasdaq-listed Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, has acquired Trade Extensions to make it easier for organizations to reduce supply chain risk, increase profit margins and achieve operational compliance.
Trade Extensions offers a strategic sourcing and advanced optimization platform used by many of the world’s largest brands to run sourcing projects for the most complex categories, such as transportation and logistics, production planning and supply chain design.
Osborne Clarke has advised StarLeaf Limited on their $40m Series B fundraising from Grafton Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe.
Founded in 2008, StarLeaf is a global video conferencing provider and manufacturer with a comprehensive range of tools that provide video for meeting rooms, desktops and mobile use. The new funding will support growth in primary markets of Europe and North America, and accelerate expansion into Asia Pacific.
Paul, Weiss represented Tencent in the Series C financing of Yixin Capital Limited (Yixin). Tencent invested in Yixin in this round of financing with other investors including Bitauto (NYSE: BITA), China Orient AMC International, and others. This round of financing involves up to RMB 4 billion (approximately US$580 million) investment into Yixin. Yixin is a subsidiary of Bitauto that provides an online platform for automotive financing. Paul, Weiss also assisted Tencent in its participation of the Series B financing of Yixin.
Riskmethods, the technology market leader in supply chain risk management, has successfully completed a series B financing round with an investment sum of EUR 13.5 million.
The main investor in the series B financing round is Digital+ Partners. Co-investors include EQT Ventures, Senovo and Bayern Kapital, which were already involved in the previous Series A round. As a result, the company has already been able to collect more than EUR 20 million in equity from investors for its international growth strategy.
Loyens & Loeff advised Interxion Holding N.V., a Netherlands-based US-listed provider of carrier-neutral data centers and managed services, on the acquisition of data centre business of Vancis B.V., a Netherlands-based provider of IT services.