The Manchester office of Shoosmiths has advised award-winning innovation lab, FutureEverything, on their £500,000 commission by the government of Singapore to host a week-long digital culture festival in the country this Autumn.

FutureEverything's commission in the Far East was highlighted during the Prime Minister David Cameron's 'first Northern Powerhouse trade mission' to Singapore and Malaysia last month. FutureEverything joined the prime minister and business secretary Sajid Javid as part of the trade delegation.

White & Case LLP has advised United Internet AG and its subsidiary, 1&1 Internet SE, on the acquisition for around €150 million of home.pl S.A. from its current owners, led by private equity fund V4C Eastern Europe.

Agta Record AG, through Record Holding Netherlands, acquired Imtech Toegangstechniek BV, one of the leading providers of automated pedestrian doors and related maintenance services in the world.  Record Holding Netherlands is a subsidiary of the Swiss-listed company Agta Record AG, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of automatic door systems.

Deutsche Telekom AG has entered into an agreement on the sale of the online platform t-online.de and the digital marketer InteractiveMedia CCSP to Ströer SE. The transaction is to be carried out by way of a capital increase of Ströer against in-kind contributions of the two entities.

Olswang has advised Endemol Shine, one of the world’s largest independent television and digital production companies, on acquiring a majority interest in animation studio Simon’s Cat Limited.

netrics hosting AG, Biel, acquires from Garaio AG, Bern the majority in Lyss-based in4U AG. With this acquisition two leading Swiss ICT provider join their forces with complementary competencies in the sectors IT Outsourcing and Cloud Computing. Garaio AG remains a substantial shareholder in in4U AG.

Walder Wyss advised netrics in all legal aspects of the transaction. The team was led by Lucas Hänni (Corporate/M&A, Counsel) and further included Didier Sangiorgio (IT/IP, Partner), Samuel Dürr (Tax, Partner) and Samuel Lieberherr (Corporate/M&A, Associate).

SoftwareONE, a global provider of software portfolio management solutions agreed with KKR, a leading global investment firm, on a 25% minority investment in SoftwareONE by investment funds affiliated with KKR. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is subject to customary approvals and is expected to close in fall 2015.

Taylor Wessing advises Facelift brand building technologies GmbH on the acquisition of Socialshaker SAS

A team from Taylor Wessing has advised Facelift brand building technologies GmbH, a European specialist for social driven marketing technology, on the acquisition of Socialshaker SAS, France’s leading software provider of social driven marketing technology.

Ashurst advised the shareholders of Solare Datensysteme GmbH (SDS) on the sale of SDS to BKW Group, headquartered in Bern/Switzerland. The parties have agreed not to disclose the amount of the transaction. The closing of the purchase is expected in September 2015. By taking over the leading manufacturer of monitoring systems for photovoltaic systems based in the southern German town of Geislingen Binsdorf, BKW has strengthened its position in the photovoltaic service business.

On 10 August 2015, Altice N.V. announced the completion of the cross-border merger of Altice S.A., a Luxembourg company, with and into Altice N.V., a Dutch public company.
 
The cross-border merger became effective on 9 August 2015. As part of this merger Altice N.V. inter alia introduced common A and common B shares, which shares have similar economic rights but different voting rights. Both the common A and common B shares have been admitted to listing and trading on Euronext Amsterdam.