Travers Smith led by corporate finance partner Anthony Foster has advised Arria NLG plc on its admission to AIM by way of introduction. Travers Smith have advised Arria NLG, over the past 18 months, on its investment in Data2Text Limited (a spin-out from the University of Aberdeen) and on several rounds of private pre-IPO fundraising culminating in the acquisition of the shares in Data2Text which it did not own, and its listing on AIM of both shares and warrants.

The Warsaw Court of Appeal ruled that a claim by 15 publishers against the administrator of the website Chomikuj.pl, FS File Solutions, represented by Wierzbowski Eversheds, cannot be heard under the Act on Pursuit of Claims in Group Proceedings of 17 December 2009. The order of the court is legally final.

Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property team has secured a High Court judgment against British Telecommunications plc for patent infringement in connection with its Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband network.

The case was brought by ASSIA Inc, the US-based broadband software developer and client of Wragge & Co.

Stephenson Harwood has advised  Kalibrate Technologies on its placing and admission to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, which occurred on 29 November 2013. Market capitalisation on admission was £26.2 million. Stephenson Harwood advised Kalibrate and N+1 Singer Advisory LLP acted as nominated advisor and sole broker to Kalibrate.

Eversheds in Germany has advised Microsoft Deutschland GmbH on relocating its headquarters from Unterschleißheim to Munich, Parkstadt Schwabing.

Taylor Wessing has advised technology company Shutl, an online marketplace of same day courier companies, on its acquisition by internet giant eBay Inc, in a deal which highlights how attractive early stage technology companies can be for major international brands seeking business solutions.

Osborne Clarke acted for Miles 33 in its acquisition in Italy of VirtualCom Interactive, a leading and innovative developer and solution provider of Web, Mobile and Tablet Publishing solutions for iOS, Android, Windows 8, Samsung SmartTV and HTML5 platforms.

DLA Piper represented ACTIVE Network, a San Diego-based software company, in its $1.05 billion acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, the largest Internet leveraged buyout in 2013.

Vista acquired all of the outstanding shares of ACTIVE Network’s common stock for $14.50 per share in cash, representing a premium of approximately 111 percent to ACTIVE Network’s year to date average closing stock price at the time of the announcement of the acquisition.

Kallisto Neunzigste Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, a company owned by the financial investor HgCapital, has signed a purchase agreement on the acquisition of Argon GmbH, the majority shareholder in P&I Personal & Informatik AG, and also intends to make a voluntary public takeover offer to P&I Personal & Informatik AG’s shareholders. Argon GmbH was previously owned by the financial investor Carlyle.

Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, advised Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) in relation to its issue of US$200 million zero coupon convertible bonds due 2018 (the Bonds). The joint managers for the issue were J.P. Morgan Securities plc and Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong Branch. The Bonds were listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange on 8 November 2013.