The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised Auto1 group on its partnership with inter alia, Deutsche Bank AG and Allianz SE as the German startup expands into FinTech to ease the financing for customers buying its used cars.

The three partners together own more than 50 percent in a new company called Auto1 FinTech, that will offer refinancing loans and insurance products to car dealerships buying Auto1’s vehicles.

Auto1 FinTech started in Germany and will expand to Poland and France later on this year.

Bird & Bird acted for NASDAQ OMX Helsinki listed cyber security company F-Secure on its acquisition of MWR InfoSecurity, a privately held cyber security company with its main offices in the UK, the US, South Africa and Singapore. The Bird & Bird team was coordinated by Shing Lo in London and Maria Carlsson in Finland, with the support of Mikko Ahonen in Helsinki and Richard Bloomfield in London.

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Teleperformance SE, the worldwide leader in outsourced omnichannel customer experience management, in the Company's pending acquisition of Intelenet, a major global provider of high-end omnichannel customer experience management, back-office, human resources and financial and administration services, from Blackstone (NYSE: BX) for a total consideration of $1 billion (enterprise value).

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised Nets A/S (‘Nets’) (via its holding company Evergood Lux 1 S.à r.l), a leading provider of digital payment services and related technology solutions across the Nordic region, on its merger with Concardis Payment Group (‘Concardis’), a leading merchant payment service provider in the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Reliance Worldwide Corporation Limited (RWC) on its GBP687.5 million (A$1.22 billion) acquisition of John Guest Holdings Limited (John Guest) in the UK, as well as the Australian equity and debt financing arrangements for the acquisition.

RWC is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of premium-branded engineered water delivery, control and optimisation products and solutions for residential and commercial plumbing applications and is the leading manufacturer in the world of brass push-to-connect (PTC) plumbing fittings.