Charles Russell Speechlys has advised the shareholders of Option Computers Limited ("OCL") on the sale of the company to Markit for an undisclosed sum.
OCL is a leading provider of trade processing and trading services to the foreign exchange market through its flagship product, 'DealHub', which uses low latency, high throughput solutions to cover the complete trading lifecycle across all FX business functions.
Watson Farley Williams (“WFW“) has advised the Italian start-up WalletSaver S.r.l. (“WalletSaver”) on the negotiation of an “Application Development Agreement” with the Brazilian consumer association “PROTESTE - Associacao Brasileira de Defesa do Consumidor” (“Proteste”), an independent consumer advocacy association which operates within the international framework of the non-profit organization Euroconsumers. Proteste is now the largest such group in Latin America, with close to 300,000 members.
Travers Smith LLP has advised UTV Media on the sale of its television business to ITV in a transaction valued at £100 million.
UTV Media is the leading commercial broadcaster in Northern Ireland. Its television business consists of UTV Northern Ireland and recently launched UTV Ireland. The company has operated since 1959 and broadcasts many of Northern Ireland's most watched programmes. UTV Media will retain its successful portfolio of radio stations, including Talksport, which are responsible for about 60% of UTV Media's revenue
Slaughter and May is advising ITV plc on its acquisition of 100% of UTV Limited, which owns the television assets of UTV Media plc, for a total cash consideration of £100 million. The transaction is led by ITV's in house legal and commerical teams and is subject to regulatory and UTV Media shareholder approval.
Milan, October 12th, 2015. NCTM advised Triboo Digitale in the establishment of Bootique, resulting from the union of Triboo Digitale Performance Marketing Unit and Brands Zodiak Active Division (De Agostini Group).
ecs Büro- u. Datentechnik Handelsges. mbH, Weilheim, was merged with Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH, Hanover, effective October 1, 2015. With a team led by Hamburg-based Partner Dr. Jörg Schewe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Konica Minolta comprehensively on the subsidiary’s reorganization and merger in connection with matters of corporate law and employment law. In addition to preparing and negotiating several asset deal purchase contracts, the merger agreement and the merger resolutions were also drafted and notarized.
Noerr has advised Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems on the sale of the subsidiary T-Systems DDM GmbH to regiocom. T-Systems DDM is a leading service provider for document-based printing and archiving processes in the field of information and communications technology (ICT).
Bird & Bird's London and Singapore Corporate teams have acted for AXIO Data Group on the sale of Medica Asia (Holdco) Limited to a Japanese purchase consortium comprising Mitsui and SMS.
The companies purchased the shares in Medica Asia - the holding company of the MIMS Group, which provides drug information to healthcare professionals in the Asia-Pacific region - for US$250m.
On October 14, 2015 the ComCo approved the creation of the joint venture Eos Commerce AG by Coop and Swisscom. Eos Commerce will develop, promote and operate an online marketplace targeted at Swiss customers. This joint venture has the potential to become Switzerland's leading e-commerce platform while combining one of the two major retailers in Switzerland with Switzerland's leading telecom company.
Homburger advised Swisscom and Coop in all Swiss and EU merger control matters.
European law firm Fieldfisher has advised the global leader in software solutions on the development of its BCRs
Fieldfisher has advised BMC Software on the development of its Binding Corporate Rules application as a Controller and a Processor and liaised with the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) throughout the approval process. BMC's was the first enterprise IT management provider to obtain Controller and Processor BCR and was officially approved by the CNIL on 17 July 2015.