Taylor Wessing has advised TOMORROW FOCUS AG on the sale of EliteMedianet GmbH, the operator of the dating agency portal ElitePartner, to THMMS Holding GmbH, a subsidiary of investment company Oakley Capital Private Equity II. The takeover of the stakes in EliteMedianet GmbH by Oakley Capital Private Equity are subject to a release under cartel law. The transaction is due to complete in the third quarter of 2015.

Hogan Lovells has advised the BBC on an £87 million deal for the sale and sublet of its West London Media Village to British developer Stanhope and Japanese property giant Mitsui Fudosan. The sale, which completed on 4 June, is part of a major initiative that will see the BBC save an estimated £75 million a year on property costs by 2017.

DLA Piper represented Mixamo, Inc., a 3D computer graphics technology company, in its sale to Adobe Systems Incorporated, an American multinational computer software company.

The acquisition will provide users of Adobe’s online graphics editor tool, Photoshop CC, with access to Mixamo’s 3D graphics composition system, combining the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop with the graphics and usability of Mixamo’s 3D platform.

Olswang has advised Viacom International Media Networks on a five-year extension of its commercial partnership with Sky in the UK and Ireland. The arrangement ensures Viacom's popular pay TV channels - including Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1 - will continue to be available via Sky under extended affiliate arrangements.

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek advised NXP on selling its RF Power Business to the Chinese investor Jianguang Asset Management. Under the terms of the agreement JAC Capital will pay USD 1.8 billion for the business.

The NXP RF Power business is one of the market leaders in high performance RF power amplifiers primarily focused on the cellular base station market, but with potential future growth applications in the areas of industrial lighting, next generation cooking and automotive electronic ignition systems.

Slaughter and May is advising Equinix, Inc. on its recommended cash and share takeover offer for Telecity Group plc. The recommended offer was announced on 29 May 2015. The Equinix legal team was led by general Counsel Brandi Galvin Morandi and EMEA General Counsel Peter Waters.

Actual Experience plc (AIM: ACT), the analytics-as-a-service company, has raised £16m from new and existing shareholders.

The proceeds of the placing will be used to fund future growth and strengthen the group's balance sheet.

Dave Page, CEO of Actual Experience commented:

"The Placing enables the Company to significantly increase its sales teams and further enhance the technology development team as we look to capitalise on our growing pipeline and beyond.

DLA Piper supported Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud software and services provider, in its US$1.2 billion sale to EMC Corp., a provider of IT storage hardware solutions.

Virtustream was founded in 2009 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland. Eric Grossman, a partner in DLA Piper’s Corporate practice, has assisted Virtustream and its founders in the raising of US$129 million since its inception.

The Northern Virginia-based DLA Piper team representing Virtustream included Grossman and Catherine Le Regulski.

The Glasgow corporate team of national legal business DWF has advised Capita plc on its acquisition of Pervasive Limited, an IT solutions provider specialising in enterprise wireless networks, mobility and ‘bring your own device’ solutions. The business will sit within Capita IT Enterprise Services as part of the Technology Solutions division.

Guangzhou GRG Metrology &Test Co., Ltd. (“GRGT”, stock code: 832462), a subsidiary of Guangzhou Radio Group, was successfully listed on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations (“NEEQ”) system. GRGT thus became the first NEEQ-listed state-owned enterprise in Guangzhou. 

A Guangzhou-based team comprising capital markets attorneys Zhang Zhike, Wang Hongsheng, Xu Lili advised GRGT on the listing.