A cross-border team of lawyers from Esin Attorney Partnership, a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, and Baker & McKenzie's London office advised Ingram Micro Inc., a Fortune 500 company, on its acquisition of shares in Armada Bilgisayar Sistemleri San. ve Tic. A.S., a leading Turkish IT company.
The French Competition Authority cleared Numericable Group’s (Altice’s subsidiary) takeover of Omer Telecom Limited (who operates the MVNO Virgin Mobile) on November 27, 2014.
This deal follows the recent buyout of SFR (cleared on October 30, 2014) and strengthens Numericable Group’s position in the mobile telephony sector.
De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés advised DHX-MEDIA, the leading Canadian producer and international distributor of Kids’ programs (“Inspector Gadget,” “Teletubbies,” “Degrassi, Next Generation,”…), and provider of TV satellite channels (including the Family Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior) with exercising of the right of pre-emption following the acquisition of 20 co-produced Franco-Canadian animated series of the Moonscoop catalogue.
The Court of Appeal has handed down a further significant judgment in the patent dispute between British Telecommunications plc and ASSIA, Inc.
International law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is advising ASSIA on the ongoing dispute.
The court granted a final injunction, resulting in BT switching off its Next Generation Access Dynamic Line Management (NGA DLM) system at 6am last Friday, 21 November.
The Australian telecommunications company Telstra has acquired Videoplaza AB via Ooyala, Telstra’s recently acquired streaming video distribution platform in the United States.
Videoplaza was established in 2007 and is a leader in video advertising technology, delivering ads to viewers across all devices. Videoplaza’s majority shareholders prior to the acquisition included the company’s founders and the Swedish private equity firms Creandum and Northzone.
In an order issued 22 October 2014, the Supreme Court of Poland refused to accept for hearing a cassation appeal by the president of the Office of Electronic Communications against the judgment of the Warsaw Court of Appeal of 19 September 2013 in which the court set aside in its entirety the decision by the regulator imposing a fine of PLN 2.5 million on PTK Centertel (now Orange Polska) in a case involving Centertel’s Zetafon offer.
LETT has assisted Dubex A/S in connection with the acquisition of all assets of the IT enterprise eSec Managed Services A/S.
Dubex A/S is one of the market leaders in IT security. The eSec core business is based on hosted IT security solutions, which is one of Dubex's growth areas.
The former owner will continue in Dubex being in charge of the management of eSec employees and the development of new managed security services.
Slaughter and May is advising Colt Group S.A. (Colt) on its proposed acquisition of KVH. Colt will pay a total cash consideration of EUR 130.3 million for 100% of KVH on completion of the transaction.
The proposed acquisition, which is subject to independent shareholder approval and expected to complete in the later stages of 2014, will enhance Colt's position in serving multi-national companies with global financial trading system solutions.
DLA Piper represented iSocket, an advertising technology platform, in its recent acquisition by The Rubicon Project, an advertising automation firm.
The Silicon Valley-based DLA Piper team representing iSocket was led by partner Bradley Gersich and associate Alina Azizian, both members of the firm’s Corporate and Finance practice, with support from partners James Telfer (San Francisco) and Stacy Paz, and associates Ena Patel and Lily Kim.
Zhong Lun recently advised PICOOC, an innovative enterprise producing intelligent device, on its Series B financing, with investors from Tencent and Jing Dong.
Zhong Lun team, Led by partner Jason Liu, including associates Frank Zhu and Reese Huang, acted as legal counsel for PICOOC. Zhong Lun’s legal service included reviewing and revising transaction documents, carrying due diligence, issuing PRC legal opinion and assisting with the closing.