International technology, media and telecoms law firm Olswang has advised German media group Burda on its acquisition of a significant minority stake in Notonthehighstreet.com, one of the UK’s fastest-growing online retailers. The Series E funding round, raising £21 million, was led by Burda, with support from Notonthehighstreet.com's existing investors, including Industry Ventures, Eight Roads and Index Ventures.

[Cologne, 2016-09-01] GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB provided publicly traded, Hamburg-based SendR SE with exhaustive legal advice in connection with its merger with Norway’s Phonofile AS, the largest digital provider in northern Europe, and also helped implement this cross-border transaction. The transaction was carried out on the basis of the decision of the shareholders of SendR SE to carry out a capital increase in kind with no preemptive rights in exchange for shares in Phonofile AS plus a cash component.

Premier global law firm Baker & McKenzie has advised CRIF, a leading provider of banking credit information in its acquisition of credit bureaus and risk management provider specialists Deltavista. This transaction builds on CRIF's 2011 acquisition of Deltavista’s and Teledata’s business in Switzerland and Austria, which allowed CRIF to meet different needs and widen its service portfolio to serve financial institutions, companies, and consumers, and to become a benchmark in the e-commerce sector.

Allen & Overy has advised VimpelCom, parent company of Wind, on its 50/50 joint venture with CK Hutchison, parent company of Italian mobile operator 3 Italia. Merger control approval was granted today by the European Commission.

The merger – the largest in Italy since 2007 – combines Italy’s third and fourth largest telecommunications companies to create a leading Italian mobile network operator and comes at a time of increased merger control scrutiny following the appointment of Margrethe Vestager as EU Competition Commissioner in October 2014.

International law firm Pinsent Masons has advised LoopUp Group plc on its £8.5m placing and admission to AIM.

LoopUp is a global software-as-a-service provider of remote meetings and is headquartered in Shoreditch, London. It employs approximately 100 people across offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Hong Kong.

The Pinsent Masons team advising on the transaction was led by corporate partner Russell Booker supported by Adam Murphy, Chris Watts, Philippa Ward and Charles Baker.

An Orrick team advised longtime client IronPlanet in its $758 million acquisition by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer.

Under an agreement announced this week, Ritchie, based in Canada, will buy IronPlanet, a privately held leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment and other durable asset sales. In announcing the deal, Ritchie executives said the combined company would provide customers worldwide with a larger menu of platforms to sell, buy and list equipment online or on-site.

Linklaters has advised beIN Media Group, the diversified media company active in both sports and entertainment, on the successful acquisition of Digiturk, the leading pay-TV operator in Turkey. The deal completed last Friday (26 August) and represents the largest deal made in the history of the Group. 

Loomis AB (publ)’s Danish subsidiary Loomis Danmark A/S has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in the Danish cash handling company Bankernes Kontantservice A/S (“BKS”) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The enterprise value is approximately DKK 250 million, corresponding to approximately SEK 316 million.

Advised by King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), Shanghai Film Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Film) was successfully listed on the main board of Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock code: 601595) with its initial public offering of A-shares in August 2016. Shanghai Film issued 93.5 million shares at RMB10.19 per share, raising approximately RMB952.765 million. It was another project that has regional and sectoral significance since KWM advised the Shanghai-based portal website Eastday Network on its successful listing on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations in 2015.

Washington D.C., 29 August 2016 – Hogan Lovells today announced that it has successfully assisted CNN in its receipt of a first of its kind waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to legally fly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) across the country for news gathering and reporting activities 'over people.'