Davis Polk advised Tencent and Tencent Music Entertainment in connection with their equity investments with Spotify. TME and Spotify will acquire new shares representing minority equity stakes in each other for cash. In addition, Tencent will invest in Spotify through secondary purchases. Following these transactions, Spotify will hold a minority stake in TME, and both Tencent and TME will hold minority stakes in Spotify.

Simpson Thacher is representing Spotify in connection with its announced equity investment transactions with Tencent Holdings Limited (“Tencent”) and its subsidiary, Tencent Music Entertainment Group (“TME”). Following these transactions, Spotify will hold a minority stake in TME, and both Tencent and TME will hold minority stakes in Spotify.

Anisa Consolidated Holdings Limited (“Anisa”) specialises in the delivery of world class integrated supply chain and enterprise resource planning. Anisa has around 250 customers and operates from offices in London, Runcorn, Liverpool and Solihull within the UK. Anisa also supports operations in Singapore and Australia.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Mirriad Advertising plc,  a global technology company and developer of native in-video advertising, on its successful AIM market IPO.  Following admission, Mirriad will have a market capitalisation of approximately £63.2 million.

As part of the IPO process, joint bookrunners Numis Securities Limited and Baden Hill (a trading name of Northland Capital Partners Limited) raised £26.2 million of which £25.4 million is for the benefit of the Company.

Hogan Lovells has advised Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. (Sedgwick), a global provider of technology-enabled risk and benefits solutions, on its agreement to acquire Cunningham Lindsey, a global loss adjusting, claims management and risk solutions firm from a consortium of Sellers led by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners.

The Hogan Lovells team was led by corporate partner Robert Darwin in London with support from London Senior Associate Catherine Lah and corporate partners Jean-Marc Franceschi in Paris and Johannes Buntjer in Amsterdam.

A team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek led by Dr. Peter Ladwig advised sensor and automation specialist Balluff GmbH on the acquisition of software company iss innovative software services GmbH and of machine vision pioneer Matrix Vision GmbH Bildverarbeitung. AS part of the transactions, which were negotiated in parallel, Balluff acquired 100% of iss innovative software services, while the previous shareholders of Matrix Vision retain a 25% stake in the company. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s advisory services also included legal due diligence.
 

A team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek led by Dr. Peter Ladwig advised sensor and automation specialist Balluff GmbH on the acquisition of software company iss innovative software services GmbH and of machine vision pioneer Matrix Vision GmbH Bildverarbeitung. AS part of the transactions, which were negotiated in parallel, Balluff acquired 100% of iss innovative software services, while the previous shareholders of Matrix Vision retain a 25% stake in the company. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s advisory services also included legal due diligence.
 

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised ProSiebenSat.1 on the acquisition of a majority stake of 90 percent in esome advertising technologies GmbH.

Squire Patton Boggs has advised Appen Limited (Appen) ASX: APX in relation to debt financing associated with its acquisition of Leapforce, Inc. and RaterLabs, Inc. (Leapforce).

Major national law firm, Mills & Reeve, has acted for leading technology investor, Mercia Technologies, on its investment into Warwick Audio Technologies

Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with high growth potential from the UK regions, has invested £1.9million as part of a £3.1million syndicated round into University of Warwick spinout, Warwick Audio Technologies.