Australian technology firm SiteMinder, the hotel industry’s leading cloud platform, announced in August its plans to create 100 jobs through the opening of a new office in Galway city. The company is expanding its global network which already includes offices in Bangkok, Dallas and Sydney, and their European headquarters in London. Ireland functions as a complementary location to service hotels within the region and globally. Matheson acted as Irish advisers on the project, which is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland.

Vitec Software Group AB (publ) has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in the Finnish software company Futursoft Oy specialized in software for the automotive and machinery industries. Hannes Snellman acted as counsel to Vitec Software Group AB (publ). Our core team included Rabbe Sittnikow, Panu Siitonen, Jesper Kostiainen and Sara Soini.

Trackunit, a leading global independent provider of machine telematics products and software, has today announced the acquisition of Dreyer+Timm GmbH, a well-established telematics provider for vehicles, trailers and machines in Europe.

It was announced August 1 that Fujitsu Services Holdings has acquired Symphony ESM , one of the most well-established and experienced ServiceNow partners in Northern Europe.

Arntzen de Besche has assisted Fujitsu Services Holdings with advice on all the Norwegian aspects of the transaction. The team was led by Per A. Dagslet, assisted by a team consisting of Pål A. Reinertsen, Even Næstvold, Hege Dahl, Espen Sandvik, Gard A. Skogstrøm, Christina Cascampas, Andreas Rabe, Knut-Marius Sture, Bente Langsrud, Camilla Ellingsvik and Eyvind Sandvik.

Global law firm White & Case advised Cukurova Group in relation to the sale by its affiliate, Fintur Technologies BV, of its interest in DP Acquisitions BV (Holding company for the Digiturk Group) to beIN Media Group. The other shareholder, Providence Equity Partners, also sold its shares in the transaction.  The Firm provided both English and Turkish law support to the Cukurova Group, working alongside Tuvan Yalim from Kabine Law Office.

Weil is advising Univision Communications Inc., a leading American media company, with respect to the Hungarian aspects of the $135 million acquisition of Gawker Media Group’s digital media assets, following its filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy as a direct result of the Hulk Hogan invasion of privacy lawsuit. The deal, which will be accounted for as an asset purchase, includes the Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Deadspin, Lifehacker and Kotaku digital platforms of Gawker (Univision will not be operating the Gawker.com site).

Paris - Altice announced it filed today a public exchange offer for all of the remaining shares issued by SFR Group, a publicly traded company listed in Paris. The share-for-share offer targeting the 22.5% free-float not yet owned by Altice is made on the basis of 8 new Altice NV class A shares for 5 SFR Group shares. The transaction values SFR Group at approximately 11 billion Euros.

Munich, September 5, 2016 – The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE on acquisition of a majority stake in Parship Elite Group. The company, headquartered in Hamburg, with its two strong brands Parship and ElitePartner is the leading online dating service in the German-speaking world.

August 31, 2016, Sensirion AG, a Swiss leading sensor manufacturer, has sold its digital barometric absolute pressure sensor business to an international sensor company. The sale included all related intellectual property rights and other assets located in Switzerland and Taiwan.

Homburger acted as counsel to Sensirion. The Homburger team was led by partners Daniel Daeniker and Daniel Hasler (both Corporate | M&A) and comprised counsel Peter Müller (Tax), associates Rafael Zemp (Corporate | M&A), Luca Dal Molin and Roman Perrig (both IP | IT).

With a team led by Düsseldorf-based partners Michael Schmittmann and Dr. Martin Imhof, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised M7 Group, Luxemburg, on reorganizing its business in Germany. The advice focused on the merger of the German operating company with a Luxemburg-based company of M7 Group.