Shearman & Sterling advised Liberty Global plc on the completed split-off of Liberty Latin America Ltd. Liberty Latin America comprises Liberty Global’s operations in Latin America and the Caribbean that were attributed to its “LiLAC Group” tracking shares and has an enterprise value of approximately $9.3 billion.
Advising Vobile Group Limited on its initial public offering and listing on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
The firm has advised Vobile Group Limited (Stock code: 3738) on its initial public offering and listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Simmons & Simmons acted as issuer's Hong Kong counsel to Vobile Group Limited. Silicon Valley-based Vobile Group is the leading provider of online video content protection services.
Fried Frank acted as counsel to Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), a global business-to-business information company, on its acquisition of Clavis Insight for an initial cash consideration of US$119 million paid in December 2017 plus future earnout payments payable over three years. The total consideration is capped at US$219 million and a portion of the earnout is subject to the founders remaining employed by the company.
Bird & Bird's Corporate team in Helsinki, led by partner Maria Carlsson and assisted by associates Iina-Mari Supperi and Laura Kallinen, has advised the sellers of Visual Components on the sale of the company to German-Chinese robotics giant, KUKA. Corum Group acted as financial advisors to the sellers in close cooperation with the Bird & Bird team.
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Oi S.A., a Brazilian telecommunications company, on its restructuring of more than US$20 billion of debt, the largest-ever debt restructuring in Latin America.
The Firm acted as international counsel, advising Oi with respect to its New York and English law governed bond debt and export credit agreements and with respect to US and English law issues arising in Oi's various judicial insolvency cases, which spanned across Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal and the Cayman Islands.
Simpson Thacher is representing musical.ly, a mobile platform for short form video, in connection with its merger into Bytedance, the Chinese online media giant (a/k/a “Toutiao”), at a price close to US$1 billion. After the closing of the transaction, musical.ly, being a wholly owned subsidiary of Bytedance, will continue to operate as an independent platform, integrating Bytedance's AI technology and leveraging its reach in China and key markets across Asia to enhance musical.ly's offering to users, creators and partners.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised ProSiebenSat.1 on its sale of all shares in Comvel GmbH to lastminute.com Group.
Osborne Clarke advised on all matters regarding the business model as well as IP/IT law and ecommerce related aspects.
Comvel operates the travel website weg.de, one of Germany’s best-known online travel sites and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Group since January 2014.
The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE on the sale of all shares in Comvel GmbH, which operates the travel website weg.de, to lastminute.com Group.
Dechert LLP represented SQS Software Quality Systems AG (“SQS”), a leading independent provider of end-to-end software quality assurance services, on its proposed acquisition by Assystem Services Deutschland GmbH, a leader in the European research and development market. The all-cash bid values SQS at GBP 281.3 million. First announced on December 15, 2017, the offer is expected to close in February 2018 pending regulatory approvals and assuming satisfaction of the acceptance and other conditions.
Vienna, December 22 2017 - Wolf Theiss has advised mobile operator T-Mobile on the acquisition of UPC Austria. Liberty Global plc, the largest international cable network operator, was the seller. The purchase price amounts to € 1.9 billion, making it to one of the biggest transactions in Austria and Central Europe in 2017.