De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés (Charles-Edouard Renault, Partner, and Julie Carel, Associate) advised Paramount since 2013 in the context of a dispute initiated by a French writer against the successful TV series « The Sentinel », broadcasted on several French TV channels.
On September 21, 2016, ABB signed an agreement with NKT Cables for the sale of ABB Group's global high-voltage cable system business with a total enterprise value of EUR 836 m. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.
Homburger advised ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd with respect to the Swiss law aspects of the transaction. The Homburger team was led by partner Claude Lambert (Corporate | M&A) and included partner Gregor Bühler (IP | IT), associates Kevin M. Hubacher and Karin Mattle (both Corporate | M&A) as well as Roman Perrig (IP | IT).
The 20% investment will allow the digital sports media company to open up new media channels and expand its workforce.
The corporate team from independent UK law firm Burges Salmon has advised Play Sports Group, the digital sports media company behind market-leading cycling brands Global Cycling Network (GCN) and Global Mountain Bike Network (GMBN), in securing investment from Discovery Communications the global media and entertainment group that acquired Eurosport in 2015.
Norton Rose Fulbright has acted for private printing company IPMG Pty Ltd on the merger of the IPMG Group with PMP Limited.
IPMG provides printing and digital services throughout Australia. It operates through various businesses and offers services such as heatset web offset printing, sheet fed and digital printing and associated finishing solutions and services.
Vinge has advised Enea AB (publ) in connection with a directed share issue of SEK 162.4 million through an accelerated book-building procedure.
The Vinge team was headed by capital markets and public M&A partner Erik Sjöman and included Christan Lindhé and Astrid Karlsson.
Setterwalls has advised Soundtrack Your Brand in connection with an investment in the company amounting to $22 million. Among the investors are Stiftelsen Industrifonden, Balderton Capital and several of the current owners as Telia, Northzone, Creandum, H&M-family Persson and Jörg Mohaupt.
Soundtrack Your Brand is a leading actor within music streaming services for businesses.
Setterwalls’ team has primarily consisted of Anders Söderlind and Samuel Skybrand.
Gleiss Lutz is advising leading German full-service digital agency SinnerSchrader Aktieng-esellschaft (“SinnerSchrader”) in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake by Accenture Digital Holdings GmbH (“Accenture”), a member of the Accenture Group, the con-clusion of a business combination agreement, and the next steps in the takeover process. SinnerSchrader’s shares are traded in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Bird & Bird has represented ARM in its acquisition of the Swedish company Mistbase AB. Mistbase is an early stage tech company focused on developing NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) solutions. NB-IoT is a cellular standard introduced in 3GPP Release 13 as a low-power wide-area connectivity standard for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, like monitoring remote sensors.
DLA Piper has advised the Webhelp Group on the takeover of Ocon Office Concept GmbH, a business process outsourcing service provider, by Webhelp Holding Germany GmbH.
Ocon Office Concept GmbH is an owner-run, medium-size family company that focuses on support for customers from commerce and industry. Ocon employs more than 270 people in its service centre at the company’s base in Stuttgart.
Singapore – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has advised Singapore-based Kacific Broadband Satellites Pte Ltd on a US$147 million financing deal for a condominium satellite called “Kacific-1”, which is based on the Boeing 702 satellite platform and will cover 20 Pacific and South East Asian nations.
The satellite is co-owned with SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, which will use its half of the payload, JCSAT-18, to provide satellite broadband services to the Far East Russia and Asia-Pacific regions.