CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA, Oldenburg, acquired approx. 80% of the shares of Stardust Media And Communication S.A.S., Paris, from its founders and financial investors and secured the acquisition of the remaining approx. 20% of the shares by way of options.

With its brand “Cheerz”, primarily targeted at smartphone users, the company is very successful in France, Spain and Italy and is growing dynamically.

Jeantet advised CEWE comprehensively with the following team:

– Karl Hepp de Sevelinges (Partner, Lead M&A, Paris)

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of all shares in Reutlingen-based almato GmbH and accompanied the transaction.
 
Almato GmbH, founded in 2002, specializes in optimizing standard business processes and is one of the pioneers in the field of full and partial automation.
 
DATAGROUP SE, headquartered in Pliezhausen, is a leading German IT service company with more than 1,900 employees.
 

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of all shares in Reutlingen-based almato GmbH and accompanied the transaction.
 
Almato GmbH, founded in 2002, specializes in optimizing standard business processes and is one of the pioneers in the field of full and partial automation.
 
DATAGROUP SE, headquartered in Pliezhausen, is a leading German IT service company with more than 1,900 employees.
 

CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA, Oldenburg, acquired approx. 80% of the shares of Stardust Media And Communication S.A.S., Paris, from its founders and financial investors and secured the acquisition of the remaining approx. 20% of the shares by way of options.

With its brand “Cheerz”, primarily targeted at smartphone users, the company is very successful in France, Spain and Italy and is growing dynamically.

Jeantet advised CEWE comprehensively with the following team:

– Karl Hepp de Sevelinges (Partner, Lead M&A, Paris)

Jones Day is acting for NewSat Limited, a formerly publicly listed Australian satellite company, on the instruction of its receivers from McGrathNicol in relation to a claim against NewSat's CEO and Chairman for breaches of directors' duties. NewSat, backed by U.S. and European lenders, was involved in attempting to build Australia's first commercial satellite business and collapsed in 2015 following its entry into and failure to comply with a number of satellite project contracts relating to the construction and launch of an Australian satellite.

contact: Roger Dobson

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Ebiquity plc, an independent marketing and media consultancy operating out of EMEA, North and South America and Asia Pacific, on the proposed disposal of its advertising intelligence business to Nielsen Media Research Limited, a subsidiary of Nielsen Holdings plc, the global measurement and data analytics company. Quayle Monro Limited acted as Ebiquity’s corporate finance advisor in respect to the transaction.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Ebiquity plc, an independent marketing and media consultancy operating out of EMEA, North and South America and Asia Pacific, on the proposed disposal of its advertising intelligence business to Nielsen Media Research Limited, a subsidiary of Nielsen Holdings plc, the global measurement and data analytics company. Quayle Monro Limited acted as Ebiquity’s corporate finance advisor in respect to the transaction.

Cooley advised Uber on the negotiating and closing of its multi-billion dollar investment from a consortium of investors led by SoftBank, including a tender offer for secondary shares and a primary investment at Uber's prior valuation.

O’Melveny represented Cedexis, a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across CDNs, ISPs, public clouds, and datacenters, in its acquisition by Citrix, which offers integrated technology services for secure delivery of apps and data.

Ropes & Gray acted as international counsel to Google on a six year abuse of dominance investigation conducted by the Competition Commission of India into the company, regarding search and advertising within India.

The Ropes & Gray team was led by competition partner Ruchit Patel, assisted by associate Charlotte Brunsdon, both based in London.