A Squire Patton Boggs cross-border corporate finance team advised the shareholders of Berlin-based DirectSmile GmbH on its acquisition by Silicon Valley-based Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFI), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation.

An award-winning provider of software solutions for cross media marketing automation, DirectSmile invented image personalization in 2001. Through the acquisition, DirectSmile’s technologies will expand EFI’s client base and provide customers with fully integrated, cross media technologies.

Cadwalader is pleased to have advised Forbes Media LLC on its sale of a majority stake to a group of international investors as part of the Company's global growth strategy.  The Forbes Family will retain a significant ownership stake and will remain a privately-held company.  The newly formed Hong Kong-based investor group, Integrated Whale Media Investments, will provide capital, as well as financial and operational expertise to strategically expand market share of Forbes Media product lines globally.  The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

DLA Piper has advised the shareholders of Tricontes GmbH on the sale of the company to Capita International Limited. The sale of the company took place within the framework of a 100 per cent share deal.

Tricontes GmbH is one of the leading providers of telemarketing and call centre services in Germany.

Simmons & Simmons advised Tel Aviv-based Matomy Media Group Ltd. on the admission of the company’s shares to trading today on the High Growth Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s main market, and the $75 million initial public offering of its shares to institutional investors.

DLA Piper represented Atlanta-based Racemi, a cloud migration company, in a US$10 million investment by venture capital fund Milestone Venture Partners and existing investors Harbert Venture Partners and Paladin Capital Group.

This latest investment will be used to further scale Racemi’s sales, services and engineering to meet the growing demand for its software that supports migrations between dissimilar physical, virtual and cloud platforms.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A., a leading Italian telecoms operator, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Wind Acquisition Finance S.A. (WAF) on a corporate refinancing that includes a new €4 billion issuance by WAF of three tranches of senior secured bonds.

The deal also involved a simultaneous tender offer for outstanding securities of WAF to facilitate the transaction.

Osborne Clarke has advised leading cloud contact centre vendor NewVoiceMedia on a US$50m fundraising. The series 'E' funding led by new investor Technology Crossover Ventures – together with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), Highland Capital Partners Europe, Eden Ventures, Notion Capital and salesforce.com – will be used to further NewVoiceMedia’s rapid global expansion.

The Osborne Clarke team advising NewVoiceMedia was led by Ray Berg, Head of Business Transactions and Thomas Colmer, Associate Director.

Fieldfisher has advised Align Technology, Inc. on its successful application for Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) for both the controller and processor sides of its business.

San Jose-headquartered Align is a NASDAQ listed company specialising in modern clear aligner orthodontics that designs, manufactures and markets the Invisalign system, which provides dental professionals with a range of teeth straightening options for adults and teenagers.

Allen & Overy LLP has supported SAP AG, the world's leading corporate software provider and the largest software company in Europe, on its change of form to a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE).

The change of form took effect on 7 July this year upon entry in the commercial register, after the general meeting approved the step with a majority of 99.57% on 21 May 2014.

Fieldfisher advised on eBay on the extension of their Click & Collect partnership with Argos after a successful pilot phase. The Click & Collect scheme, which debuted in September last year originally allowed a select group of 50 professional eBay sellers to send items for collection at 150 Argos shops instead of buyers' home addresses. This "clicks and mortar" solution is at the cutting edge of retail thinking as the sector finds new ways to make the online shopping channel relevant to the high street.