Eera, a company specialising in corporate growth strategies, and the financial service provider Wallstreet have decided to merge. Eversheds advised Eera’s shareholders in a corporate transaction in which all of the shares of Eera Oy and Eera Industrial Development Oy were sold to Wallstreet Financial Services Oy through a share exchange. The transaction creates a new ecosystem combining investment services, development and financing of fast-growing enterprises and strategic management consulting. Eera will continue to use its own name after the merger.

Roschier represented Nets in the acquisition of the merchant acquiring business of OP Financial Group consisting of approximately 15,000 merchant contracts with an underlying annual card turnover of around DKK 37 billion from Visa and MasterCard transactions in Finland.

The Roschier core advising team included Jouni Salmi, Antti-Jussi Partanen, Jenni Rosenlöf and Anna Haapanen.

Fieldfisher has advised new Fintech client The Hub Exchange Limited on an equity investment from and technology partnership with Elite Club Deal, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange.

Holder of several public service concessions for the financing, design, implementation and operation of very-high-speed FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) and public initiative networks, Altitude Infrastructure recently set up a holding company, ALTO, dedicated to the financing of these networks.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Staufen.Digital Invest GmbH (Staufen.Digital), on a Series A financing. Staufen.Digital has acquired shares in the Karlsruhe technology startup robodev GmbH. The agreement includes the issue of an A-1 tranche and the entry of another technology venture capital fund in the medium term. The transaction volume remains confidential.

Paul, Weiss represented Tencent, a leading provider of internet value-added services in China, in its $200 million cash investment in Zhuan Zhuan, a China-based used goods trading platform operated by 58.com.

Grupo Zeta sells Ediciones B, including well-known publications such as “Mortadelo y Filemón”

Penguin Random House, a worldwide publishing group, has entered into an agreement with Grupo Zeta to buy Ediciones B.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised P4 sp. z o.o. and Play Holdings 2 S. a r.l., trading as Play, on term loan facilities and a revolving credit facility of up to PLN seven billion (approximately €1.65 billion).

Allen & Overy LLP has advised Studio 100 N.V., which has its registered office in Schelle, Belgium, on acquiring a majority share in the Munich-based brand management and media company m4e AG, which is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The founding and main shareholders in m4e AG, who collectively held approx. 68% of the shares in m4e AG, had reached agreement with Studio 100 N.V. on the sale of all shares held by them.

In agreeing this investment, Studio 100 N.V. and m4e AG are strengthening their national and international sales potential.

Baker McKenzie advised SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, on its acquisition of LÜCK Group.

The purchase agreement was signed with the current shareholders - HANNOVER Finanz Group as well as Udo and Ingo Lück - on April 13th, 2017. The transaction is expected to close by the end of May 2017, subject to the approval of German antitrust authorities.