Clifford Chance is advising Nikon Corporation on its recommended all cash offer to acquire London listed Optos plc, a leading retinal imaging company domiciled in Scotland. The offer values Optos at approximately GBP 259 million. The proposed acquisition of Optos is an important step in Nikon's implementation of its strategic initiative focused on driving sustainable long term growth that was announced in its June 2014 Medium-Term Management Plan Transform to Grow.

Noerr has provided the Africa Internet Group with wide-ranging advice on several successful rounds of financing with a total value of more than €300 million. On a cash-flow basis Africa’s largest internet platform is valued at €1 billion.

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Host Europe Group on the acquisition of velia.net Internetdienste GmbH, Hanau, the acquisition of OpenIT GmbH, Düsseldorf, and the acquisition of MCS Moorbek Computer Systeme GmbH, Hamburg.

velia.net Internetdienste GmbH, headquartered in Hanau, was founded in 2000. The company with subsidiaries in the U.S. and Hong Kong offers a wide range of hosting solutions and has data centers in Frankfurt, Miami, and Los Angeles.
 

Noerr has advised Payleven Holding GmbH on the merger of the Payleven group with the SumUp group, two of the leading mobile payment providers.

The combined company will operate under the name SumUp. The merger is intended to accelerate the international growth of both businesses. All former shareholders in SumUp and Payleven will remain shareholders in the combined holding entity.

The Firm is representing Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), as part of a buyer group with Mr. Yan Tang, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Momo, Matrix Partners China II Hong Kong Limited, Sequoia Capital China Investment Management L.P. and Huatai Ruilian Fund Management Co., Ltd., in connection with the announced proposal to consummate a going private transaction to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Momo Inc. (NASDAQ: MOMO) not already owned by the buyer group for approximately $3 billion.

We assisted Mipro Group Oy in its purchase of the entire share capital of Profa Automaatio Oy. Profa Automaatio operates in the machine and process design business. The deal value is confidential.

Mipro is a Finnish expert company specialising in safety and environmental technology. Mipro develops and supplies comprehensive system solutions for safety management in railway and metro traffic control and industry as well as for water and energy management. In addition to Finland, Mipro has activities in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

We have advised technology distributor Midwich Group plc on its £165 million AIM IPO and related £75 million fundraising.

Midwich is a specialist audio visual (AV) and document solutions distributor to the trade market, with operations in the UK and Ireland, France, Germany and Australasia.

BBC Worldwide will take a ten per cent stake in the literary and talent agency in return for its investment.

European law firm Fieldfisher has advised long-standing client BBC Worldwide on its investment in Curtis Brown, the literary and talent agency, in return for a ten per cent stake.

Advising Altice Media Group in connection with the sale of 100% share capital of its subsidiary Altice Media Group France to the group Numericable-SFR

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Bird & Bird LLP has advised Finland’s OpusCapita Group Oy on the acquisition of all shares in jCatalog Software AG (Dortmund, Germany) from its shareholders.

jCatalog Software AG is a leading provider of software solutions for procurement as well as the management and distribution of product information. jCatalog is headquartered in Dortmund with offices across Europe and a subsidiary in the USA.