With a team led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised a private equity fund advised by CGS Management AG on the acquisition of a majority stake in InnoLas Solutions GmbH. Jointly with previous owner Richard Grundmüller, who remains a shareholder in the company, CGS intends to develop InnoLas Solutions GmbH into a global laser machine manufacturer for micromachining as part of a buy and build strategy.

De Brauw has served as lead counsel to Philips on its acquisition of NightBalance Holding B.V.

Client name
Koninklijke Philips N.V.

Other parties involved
NightBalance Holding B.V.

Nature of transaction
Philips expands its sleep & respiratory care portfolio with the acquisition of NightBalance Holding B.V. from multiple sellers. NightBalance is a digital health scale-up company based in the Netherlands, that has developed an innovative, easy to use device to treat positional obstructive sleep apnea and positional snoring.

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised the Kathrein Group on the sale of its subsidiary Katek GmbH to the investment holding PRIMEPULSE SE. The sale of Katek GmbH is part of the Kathrein Group’s restructuring and its focus on core competencies in the field of high-frequency technology.

Michael Cziesla, Norman Wasse, Volker Teigelkötter, Nina Siewert, Gregor Lamla, Christian Masch, Wolfgang Freiherr Raitz von Frentz, Tobias Riemenschneider, Isabelle Suzanne Müller, Thomas Gennert, Pierre-André Brandt and Martina Banasch advised a merchandise management provider on its acquisition of a majority stake in a leading ERP specialist based in Essen, Germany.

Bird & Bird advises Semtech on the sale of Idosens to WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co KG (“WIKA”).

International law firm Bird & Bird's French Corporate team has advised Semtech France on the sale of its stake in Idosens, an Internet of Things (“IoT”) company with offices in Meylan, to WIKA.
 
Semtech is a publicly traded (NASDAQ) leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and industrial end-markets.

Sidley is advising a wholly owned subsidiary of TransUnion, a U.S. consumer credit reporting company, on the purchase of the Callcredit group (Callcredit), the second largest credit reference company in the UK for £1 billion. Callcredit is being sold by the private equity firm GTCR LLC, which bought Callcredit in 2014. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2018.

Morrison & Foerster is lead legal counsel to Sprint Corp. and for SoftBank Group Corp., the controlling shareholder of Sprint, on the landmark merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US Inc. announced on April 29, 2018.  Based on closing share prices on April 27, the total implied enterprise value for Sprint is approximately $59 billion and the aggregate for the combined company in the all-stock transaction is approximately $146 billion.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised UK scale-up, Natterbox on a significant Series A investment from Octopus Investments.

Natterbox delivers world-class leading service levels to its customers through efficient and effective integration of voice into their digital customer communications.

DLA Piper is acting as regulatory counsel representing T-Mobile US, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom, AG in the announced merger with Sprint Corporation. DLA Piper is also representing T-Mobile in CFIUS and national security matters related to the transaction.

A team led by Cologne-based partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe assisted Serviceware SE in its IPO in the Prime Standard segment of Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company started trading on April 20.