Ropes & Gray has advised Altice USA - an American communications and media company - on the structuring and financing aspects, totaling $6.75bn, of the combination of its Suddenlink (Cequel) and Optimum (Cablevision) businesses under a single credit silo.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has successfully represented the French division of Dyson, the British technology company which designs and manufactures household and other appliances, in two cases of unfair competition against Rowenta, a member of Groupe SEB.
Dyson launched two unfair competition claims in 2014, which focused on the marketing campaigns associated with two Rowenta cordless vacuum cleaner lines.
PARIS – McDermott Will & Emery advised Canadian company LuminUltra Technologies Ltd., a company specializing in the monitoring and testing of microbes in drinking water, sewage water treatment and a market leader in rapid and portable microbiology monitoring instruments in the acquisition of the “ATP-Métrie” activity involving the microbiological solutions tests used by the aqua-tools company, a French company specializing in water microbiology in the industrial, health and environmental sectors.
Travers Smith LLP has advised The Access Group, one of the UK's leading providers of software to mid-market customers, on its acquisition of iCareHealth.
Davis Polk advised DXC Technology Company and its United Kingdom subsidiary, CSC Computer Sciences International Operations Limited (“CSC UK”), in connection with a £450 million delayed draw unsecured term loan facility provided to CSC UK. The term loan is guaranteed by DXC and matures on January 15, 2022. CSC UK has the option to request that the commitments under the term loan facility be increased to £550 million if the existing or other lenders are willing to provide such an increase.
West Yorkshire-headquartered specialist print supplier Hague Group has acquired a £6m-turnover print management company based in the Midlands.
Venture, which has been established for more than 40 years, has a turnover of about £6m and employs 30 staff over its three sites in Leicester, Ilkeston and Newcastle under Lyme.
The current sales and administration team will remain in place at Venture and Hague plans to invest to further develop sales.
Swedish telecommunications firm Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) completed its acquisition of 100% of the shares in CENX, a service assurance and network analytics firm.
CENX is headquartered in New Jersey and operates a major research and development facility in downtown Ottawa. Ericsson has held a minority stake in CENX since 2012.
Gowling WLG was Canadian counsel to CENX with respect to this transaction with a team that included Lorraine Mastersmith, Elisa Scali and Sarah Crowe.
RTPR Allen & Overy has advised AROBS Transilvania, a market leader in software products and services development, in relation to the acquisition of SAS Grup. SAS Grup owns alarma.ro and is one of the main players in the fleet monitoring solutions field in Romania. The deal was signed in August and closed in October.
The firm’s corporate team is advising leading IT services developer SCISYS on its proposed restructuring to introduce a new parent company incorporated in Ireland.
Burges Salmon is advising its long-standing client SCISYS Group on its restructuring to introduce an Irish parent company.
Ashurst has advised the Sweden-headquartered international media group Modern Times Group (MTG) on the acquisition of a further stake in Turtle Entertainment. Turtle Entertainment is a world-leading eSports company based in Cologne, Germany.