Osborne Clarke has advised Bigballs Media Limited (BBM) on an investment by Turner International.

The financing round saw Turner acquire a minority stake in the digital media sports company. Under its brand Copa90, BBM operates a digital network that produces football-related content for millions of fans in 55 countries.

The funding will be used to fuel BBM’s international expansion, content production and distribution while enhancing its data capabilities as it continues to grow.

Allgeier SE and US-headquartered Ciber, Inc. combine their activities in the German market for SAP Consulting Services and SAP Managed Services. To this end, Allgeier Enterprise Services AG acquires Ciber´s German companies, namely Ciber AG and Ciber Managed Services GmbH. In addition, French Ciber France SAS, and major parts of the operations, including the customer relationships and employees of Ciber Danmark A/S, will be transferred, along with the software solution Ciber Compliance Suite for SAP Systems.

Loyens & Loeff advised NavInfo Co., Ltd., a listed China-based company (together with Tencent Holdings Ltd., a listed China-based company and GIC Private Limited, a Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund of Government of Singapore), on the acquisition of a 10% stake in HERE, a US-based company.

We are representing Helsinki-listed Comptel Corporation in connection with Nokia’s EUR 347 million public tender offer for all shares and options rights in Comptel. The board of directors of Comptel has unanimously decided to recommend that the shareholders and holders of option rights accept the tender offer.

Slaughter and May advised Equinix (UK) Limited on the purchase from IO of an operating data centre business in Slough, United Kingdom, consisting of one single site facility. The agreement was signed on 7 January 2017 and the acquisition completed on 3 February 2017.

Equinix is a leading global data centre provider operating 147 data centre facilities in 40 markets across 5 continents. It is a US Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) headquartered in Redwood City, California and listed on NASDAQ with a market capitalisation in excess of $27 billion.

Allen & Overy has advised international academic publisher Brill on the successful acquisition of the publishing houses Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink, including the imprint Konstanz University Press. The transaction was effected by way of an asset deal.

Stibbe advises Tribune Media Company on the Dutch law aspects of the sale of its Gracenote division to Nielsen.

Since July 2015, Orlaco and Stoneridge have jointly developed the MirrorEye mirror replacement system, which is the industry-leading solution to improve the safety and fuel economy of commercial vehicles.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Jan-Paul van der Hoek , Maurits de Haan , Mark Miedema , Laila Berrich , Margot Trienen , Loes Stevens

Norwegian Visma Group makes a further acquisition in Denmark by taking over Danish LogBuy, a provider of employee benefits programmes for private and public enterprises. LETT advised Visma in connection with the acquisition.

At the end of December, 2016, LETT was, together with Kromann Reumert, requested to carry out a restructuring of the wind enterprise SSP Technology, which is engaged in the development and production of wind-turbine wings.
8 February 2017

The crisis in SSP Technology began after a long period where the enterprise had suffered huge losses. The acute financial problems began when the enterprise’s Brazilian customer, Tecsis, was unable to make payments to the Danish enterprise.