Orrick advised content infrastructure company Contentful on its $28 million Series C financing round, led by U.S. investor General Catalyst Partners and with participation of existing investors Benchmark Capital, Balderton Capital and Point Nine Capital.

Contentful is the provider of a content management system (CMS) that makes the distribution of content across different platforms significantly easier. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin, this year Contentful opened an office in San Francisco. The rapidly growing company now employs more than 140 employees.

Slaughter and May advised Naspers Limited (Naspers) on the increase of its limit to trade American depositary shares representing interests in the N ordinary shares of Naspers (the ADSs) on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).  Up to 182,540,135 additional ADSs were admitted to the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the LSE on 22 November 2017 and, following admission, Naspers is authorised to list and to trade up to 219,328,029 ADSs in total.

A legal team at national law firm Weightmans has successfully advised independent Cloud Services Provider ANS Group, on its acquisition of Webantic, a…

A legal team at national law firm Weightmans has successfully advised independent Cloud Services Provider ANS Group, on its acquisition of Webantic, a cloud transformation and application development specialist, cementing its position as the UK’s #1 Cloud Services Provider.
 

Greenberg Traurig, LLP is representing Cyfrowy Polsat Group in the acquisition of a block of approximately 32% of shares in Netia from two major shareholders, with the total purchase price amounting to PLN 638.8 million, and in connection with the announcement of a tender offer in order to achieve 66% of the total number of votes at the General Meeting of Netia.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Cyfrowy Polsat Group in the acquisition of 100% of shares in companies owning the Eska TV, Eska TV Extra, Eska Rock, Polo TV and Vox Music TV channels from ZPR Media Group, and 34% of the shares in the company owning the Fokus TV and Nova TV stations, as well as in connection with the preliminary agreement to purchase a further 15% of shares in this company in the future. The total value of the transaction is approximately PLN 103 million and it will be financed from the Group’s own funds.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Cyfrowy Polsat Group in the acquisition of 100% of shares in companies owning the Eska TV, Eska TV Extra, Eska Rock, Polo TV and Vox Music TV channels from ZPR Media Group, and 34% of the shares in the company owning the Fokus TV and Nova TV stations, as well as in connection with the preliminary agreement to purchase a further 15% of shares in this company in the future. The total value of the transaction is approximately PLN 103 million and it will be financed from the Group’s own funds.

Shearman & Sterling advised Salt, a subsidiary of Matterhorn Telecom, on Matterhorn Telecom’s offering of €400 million 4.00% senior secured notes due 2027. The offering closed on November 27, 2017.

The notes are guaranteed on a senior secured basis by Matterhorn Telecom Holding, Salt Mobile and Salt Network. The proceeds from the offering, together with cash on balance sheet, were used to redeem €400 million of Matterhorn Telecom S.A.’s floating rate senior secured notes due 2023, and to pay certain fees and expenses relating to the offering.

Shoosmiths has advised leading software component provider ComponentSource Limited on its move to new premises in Reading.

ComponentSource will take up a new 10 year lease from 1 January 2018 at the innovative office development, The White Building, Reading.

De Brauw advised TMG concerning two transactions: (i) the sale of Talpa's shareholding in TMG to Mediahuis and (ii) the sale of TMG's participation in Talpa Radio to Talpa.

Client name
Telegraaf Media Groep N.V.

Other parties involved
Mediahuis NV, Talpa Holding N.V.

Nature of transaction

A cutting-edge food waste tech start-up has raised $7.4m to boost its international expansion, in an investment deal advised on by national law firm Shoosmiths.

Winnow, whose intelligent kitchen technology has already been adopted by firms such as Ikea, Sofitel and Compass Group, raised the investment in a round led by Circularity Capital, Mustard Seed and D-Ax.

Shoosmiths corporate partner Steve Barnett, assisted by solicitor Helen Burnell and trainee solicitor Hannah Short, advised Winnow on the investment.