Allen & Overy is advising VimpelCom, parent company of WIND, on its agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture with CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (CK Hutchison), parent company of Italian mobile operator 3 Italia.

The joint venture combines Italy’s third and fourth largest telecommunications companies to create the number one operator in Italy for mobile customers. By combining the two businesses the enlarged company will have more than 31 million customers and will deliver significant synergies of more than EUR5 billion.

Dentons advised Turkcell, the leading mobile phone operator in Turkey, in Ukraine on the acquisition of SCM Holdings Limited’s (“SCM”) 44.96 percent stake in Euroasia Telecommunications Holding B.V. based in The Netherlands, in which Turkcell holds a 55.04 percent stake. Euroasia owns 100 percent of Ukrainian mobile operator LLC Astelit, which operates under the brand “life:)” on the Ukrainian mobile market. SCM’s 44.96 percent stake will be acquired for US$100 million.

Roschier acts as the global lead IP and technology counsel when Nokia completes the next stage of its transformation and sells HERE digital mapping and location services business to an automotive industry consortium comprising AUDI AG, BMW Group and Daimler AG.  The transaction values HERE at an enterprise value of EUR 2.8 billion.

In its role Roschier contributed to resolving key strategic intellectual property issues together with Nokia's excellent IP Business team and leadership.

Travers Smith partner and Head of Listed Funds Aaron Stocks and investment funds associate Leigh Stockey have advised technology company, Gloo Networks plc in connection with its £30 million placing of ordinary shares and admission to trading on AIM.

Gloo Networks plc ("Gloo") is a technology company that aims to connect some of the world's most-loved content with its most-valued consumers.  It is led by digital transformation experts Rebecca Miskin and Juan Lopez-Valcarcel and backed by the asset management and corporate finance group, Marwyn.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine advises its long-standing client – one of the world’s leading software corporations, on various labour, employment, regulatory, and immigration issues with respect to the clients’ business activities in Ukraine.

The firm’s employment practice team assists the Client in developing local policies, drafting employment agreements, as well as provides legal support with all aspects of labour immigration formalities for foreign staff to be employed with Client’s subsidiary in Ukraine.

Slaughter and May is advising Chime Communications plc (Chime) on its acquisition by Bell Bidder Limited (Bidco), an entity controlled by funds managed by Providence Equity Partners. The recommended offer was announced on 31 July 2015 and values Chime at approximately £374 million. Under the terms of the offer, Chime shareholders will be entitled to receive 365 pence in cash for each Chime share held.

Gide advised Cisco, worldwide leader in information technologies listed on NASDAQ, on the French law aspects relating to the envisaged sale of its Connected Devices business (connected home terminals and video solutions) to Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the Media & Entertainment sector listed on Euronext Paris. The sale is valued at approximately 550 million euros.

The shareholders of 360T Beteiligungs GmbH (“360T”) have entered into an agreement with Deutsche Börse AG on the complete sale of 360T to Deutsche Börse AG for a total purchase price of €725m. 360T was founded in 2000 and is a leading global provider of web-based trading technology. Closing of the transaction is subject to approval by regulatory and competition authorities.

Listed German company GFT Technologies, a leader in its sector with an already established presence in Spain, has reached an agreement to acquire the share capital of Adesis Netlife, a Spanish company specializing in IT services for financial institutions, and its subsidiaries. 

The transaction, which was carried out through the German company's Spanish subsidiary GFT Iberia Holding, will help GFT Technologies to strengthen its position in the Spanish market and to drive its expansion in Latin America.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Zegona Communications plc on the €640 million acquisition of Telecable de Asturias S.A. from The Carlyle Group.