Charles Russell Speechlys has advised the Paperhat Group, a leading print management, creative services and cross-media marketing group, on its acquisitions of a majority stake in each of CTI Digital and Despark.

CTI Digital is a leading full service digital agency. It provides bespoke web solutions using open source technologies such as Drupal Magento, Grails and the Zend Framework.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP represented Axel Springer Digital Classifieds on the merger between Immowelt and Immonet. A Milbank team led by Norbert Rieger advised Axel Springer Digital Classifieds on all corporate and tax law related aspects of the transaction.

Bonnier Business Press AB announced it has acquired majority shares in news site Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten. Founded in 2012, the site is a fast-growing new player in the German business news market and already has some 2 million unique visitors per month. Under the transaction, Bonnier Business Press acquires a 51-percent share from the site’s publisher, BF Blogform Social Media GmbH. Taylor Wessing advised Bonnier on all relevant legal issues connected with the stake taken by the new investor.

Norton Rose Fulbright is advising Orange SA on the sale of EE Limited, the UK mobile telephone operator currently jointly owned by Orange and Deutsche Telekom, to BT Group plc for £12.5 billion.

DLA Piper has advised NRC Media, a Dutch news media business, on its sale to Media House.  The DLA Piper team, consisting of Marnix Holtzer, Paul Hopman, Lex Oosterling, Philip Jonker and Jasper de Bok, assisted management in dealing with various stakeholders, such as the shareholders, works council and editors council. At the start of the process, disputes with the works council led to litigation on the appointment of a non-executive board member by the employees.

Gernandt & Danielsson advises the board in Axis in connection with Canon’s public takeover offer to the shareholder of Axis in a total value of SEK 23.6 billion Canon Inc. (“Canon”) has on 10 February 2015 announced a public takeover offer to the shareholders of Axis Aktiebolag (“Axis”) to tender all their shares in Axis to Canon in consideration of SEK 340 cash for each share. The offer corresponds to total value of approximately SEK 23.6 billion for all shares. Axis offers intelligent security solutions and is the global market leader in network video.

Shanghai Visionet Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Visionet”, stock code: 831805) has successfully listed on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations (“NEEQ”) system. Visionet was advised by a Shanghai-based team made up of senior partner Huang Xiamin, partners Xue Mei and Wang Yue, associate Jiang Xiangjun and paralegal Tian Tian.

Roschier represented the selling shareholders and Eltel AB (publ) in the initial public offering of Eltel’s shares and listing on Nasdaq Stockholm. BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley and SEB are acting as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners of the offering and Pohjola Bank is acting as a Co-Lead Manager. Morgan Stanley is acting as stabilisation manager in relation to the offering.
 

Noerr has advised Rocket Internet AG on the acquisition of a 30 per cent stake in the internet platform Delivery Hero. Delivery Hero is the world’s leading group for online and mobile food delivery services. Rocket acquired both existing and new shares with the transaction, which has a volume of approximately 496 million euros. Rocket Internet has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since October 2014 and regularly relies on Noerr to provide it with advice and support with respect to its activities.

The Linklaters legal team has advised Bonnier Business Polska, the publisher of inter alia “Puls Biznesu” daily, on the acquisition of 100 percent of shares in the Bankier.pl Group, which is the owner of leading specialised portals, including bankier.pl launched in 2000.