A team led by Dr. Lothar Ende, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, advised Reply on the acquisition of the German group companies of U.S. group CSPi. IT service provider CSPi GmbH, which will operate as Spike Reply in the future, will boost Reply group’s presence in IT security.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has advised China Tower Corporation Limited (‘China Tower’), the worlds’ largest telecommunications tower infrastructure service provider, on the proposed global offering and listing of its H-shares on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Clarivate Analytics on its partnership with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB), the Egyptian government’s digital library and online knowledge hub to launch the first Arabic Citation Index (ARCI).
On 8 August 2018, China Tower Corporation Limited (“China Tower”, stock code: 0788.HK) successfully launched its initial public offering of 43,114,800,000 shares (before exercise of the over-allotment option) on the mainboard of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange(“HKSE”). The global offering was priced at HK$ 1.26 per share and raised approximately HK$ 54.325 billion, making it the world’s largest IPO in nearly two years and one of the top 10 biggest IPOs in the history of HKSE.
London—A cross-border team at Dentons is advising new client, Vitesse Media plc (to be renamed Bonhill Group plc), the AIM-quoted digital media and events business, on its US$27.1 million reverse acquisition of the trade and assets of InvestmentNews from Crain Communications, one of the US’s largest privately held B2B media companies.
On July 27, 2018, King & Wood Mallesons advised Improbable Worlds Limited (“Improbable”), a well-known game development platform company in the U.K., on its successful strategic partnership with the Chinese game giant enterprise, NetEase. As part of this strategic partnership, Improbable reached a notable milestone following the financing of US$50 million from NetEase, with its valuation now reaching US$ 2 billion.
International law firm CMS has advised on the management buyout of Arkessa, the leading Internet-of-Things (“IoT”) managed services provider, to private equity firm ECI Partners. Arkessa enables enterprises to develop and optimise their businesses by helping them adopt, integrate and scale IoT enabled services.
The international law firm Baker McKenzie represented Severgroup TalentTech in the acquisition of the FL.ru service.
TalentTech is a Russian technology company, a subdivision of Alexey Mordashov's Severgroup investment company, which develops comprehensive solutions for combining online education and recruitment, including self-employment.
Fried Frank advised Serviceware SE in connection with its acquisition of German knowledge management specialist SABIO GmbH from the founding shareholders. In addition to significant cross-selling opportunities with national and international groups, Serviceware SE expands its enterprise service management platform (ESM) with the acquisition of SABIO by the integration of a SaaS knowledge management module. The purchase price has been paid by Serviceware entirely from equity. All conditions to closing have already been fulfilled.
Our Milan and London tech team advised Italian fintech startup Together Price on its seed round, led by a Madrid-based international VC fund and participated in by the LVenture Group together with some business angels of Angel Partner Group.