A team led by Dr. Mathias Schröder, Partner at the law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Munich office, advised incadea GmbH on the acquisition of a division of Beri Italia S.r.l. The transaction was closed as an asset deal, in which Austrian incadea GmbH acquired a DMS division of the Italian software enterprise. The transaction was concluded jointly with the Italian WSG partner firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners.

The Competition Practice team of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners successfully defended the interests of the largest Russian IT company Yandex against Google’s market abuse in relation to pre-installed app stores for devices on the Android operating system.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE on the acquisition of Etraveli, a leading pan-European online travel agent for flights. With this deal ProSiebenSat.1 is further expanding its eCommerce business activities. Via its investment subsidiary 7Travel, the TV Group has acquired Etraveli Holding AB, based in Uppsala, Sweden. ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired 100% of the shares in Etraveli from Segulah IV L.P., a private equity company in the Nordic region, for an overall valuation of approximately 235 million euros.

Davis Polk advised UCAR Technology Inc. in connection with its $550 million Series B equity financing.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati acted as counsel to Telekom Austria Group in connection with the merger of its subsidiary VIP OPERATOR DOOEL Skopje with ONE DOOEL Skopje, a subsidiary of Telekom Slovenije Group, both operating in the Republic of Macedonia. In addition, CHSH obtained merger control clearance in Austria, Serbia and in Macedonia, for this transaction being the first three to two telecoms consolidation in Europe.

The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is further expanding its eCommerce business activities via the acquisition of Etraveli Holding AB through its investment subsidiary 7Travel. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Etraveli was founded in 2007 and is a leading pan-European online travel agent for flights. ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired 100% of the shares in Etraveli from Segulah IV L.P., a private equity company in the Nordic region, for an overall valuation of approximately EUR 235 million.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised IMAX China Holding Limited (IMAX China) on its IPO.

The IPO, valued at US$248m, commenced trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange on 8 October.

IMAX China is a subsidiary of NYSE-listed IMAX Corporation, and was established to oversee the expansion of IMAX’s business throughout China.

Freshfields advised on both the Hong Kong and US aspects of the listing.

Clifford Chance has advised COMPAREX AG on its acquisition of amando software GmbH.

amando software GmbH is among Europe's most successful providers of software solutions and services for software asset management (SAM). COMPAREX and amando can already look back on a technology partnership. By taking over amando, COMPAREX is seeking to bring together their leading technologies and licensing excellence in response to rising customer demand for managed services in software asset management.

Ashurst is advising London-listed outsourcing company Xchanging plc on the takeover offers from UK's largest BPO firm Capita and US private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

Xchanging, which offers services ranging from back-office invoice processing to insurance claims settlement, received a revised cash offer of 160p per share from rival FTSE 100 firm Capita. Meanwhile Apollo also made a non-binding conditional proposal to acquire the company at 170 pence per share in cash.

mobile.de GmbH, a company in the eBay Classifieds Group, acquired MOTOR-TALK GmbH, Europe's largest car community. The eBay Classifieds Group is a global leader in the digital classified advertisement business and offers customized classified pages for local markets.

MOTOR-TALK has more than 2.5 million registered users and is thus the largest European car and engine platform on the Internet. The users can find out all about vehicle topics and exchange information and ideas in blogs and forums.