Bird & Bird has advised Shanghai listed Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd. ("Xinwei") on its acquisition of the full share capital of Space - Communication Ltd.("Spacecom"), for a consideration of US$285 million.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Italiaonline on its sale of Europages to a company controlled by private equity fund Paragon Partners.
Europages is a French leader in online B2B directory management and online marketing solutions for small and medium sized enterprises.
Italiaonline also renewed its commercial partnership with Europages by entering into a concession contract for the exclusive sale in Italy of Europages' products.
Orrick advised Paris-based InfoVista and Apax Partners in the acquisition of Ascom Network Testing, a global market leader in testing, monitoring, post processing and performance optimization for mobile networks.
Based in the United States, Ascom Network Testing is the testing subsidiary of the Swiss listed company, Groupe International Ascom. It is the wireless communications drive-test market leader with nearly 40% market share.
With this acquisition, InfoVista doubles its current size and become the world leader of network performance.
Leading legal business DWF has advised software and communications company CloudCall Group Plc on a successful fundraising of over £3million which will enable the software specialist to strengthen its sales and marketing services.
The AIM-listed company raised the money through selling shares on the London Stock Exchange with an oversubscribed premium of 3.6% to the closing price.
The engineering and services group Bilfinger severs its activities for the production and installation of offshore foundations. Through its subsidiary Europoles Renewables GmbH, VTC Group Munchen acquired 62.5% of the shares in Polish company Bilfinger Mars Offshore from Bilfinger SE.
The joint venture manufactures steel foundations for offshore wind turbines in Stettin, Poland. The Polish sovereign wealth fund Mars remains invested as a minority shareholder with its 37.5% share.
P+P Pollath + Partners advised the VTC group with the following team:
TGW Logistics Group has acquired CHM Automatisierungstechnik GmbH, headquartered in Stephanskirchen, Upper Bavaria, Germany. CHM is a robotics and automation technology expert, which will expand the TGW Group with "TGW Robotics" as a 100 percent subsidiary.
Commercial law firm Noerr has, with a team led by Dr Tibor Fedke and Katrin Andrä, advised the consultancy firm Persicon on its takeover by PwC Deutschland.
A team from Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners’ Competition Law and Litigation practices successfully defended the interests of Russia’s largest IT company Yandex in a dispute with Google at the Court of Appeal. The Court upheld the judgment of the Court of First Instance, in accordance with which Google now must comply with the ruling of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).
International technology, media and telecoms law firm Olswang has advised DRIVETRIBE, the digital media platform and online community for motoring enthusiasts, on its Series A funding round. Led by Breyer Capital with additional participation by Atomico and other individual investors, the round raised $5.5 million. DRIVETRIBE is the creation of former Top Gear trio, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and also former Top Gear Executive Producer Andy Wilman and serial entrepreneur Ernesto Schmitt.
International TMT law firm Olswang has advised The Seven Network (Seven), Australia’s most-watched broadcast television platform and a key business of Seven West Media, on its investment in UK scripted specialists, Slim Film + Television (Slim). This strategic investment and partnership with Slim highlights Seven's ambitions to further expand its reach and its commitment to developing its slate of innovative, high-end scripted content for international audiences.