Clifford Chance is advising Exact Group B.V. on the sale of its US based business division Specialized Solutions, which provides enterprise resource planning and business software solutions primarily to the manufacturing industry, to funds advised by Apax Partners. Transaction terms have not been disclosed.
Travers Smith LLP has advised the shareholders of Offsite Archive Storage and Integrated Services Holdings Limited (OASIS) on the sale of OASIS in a secondary buy-out backed by Montagu Private Equity (Montagu).
Travers Smith LLP has assisted in advising Vantiv, Inc. on its £9.3 billion merger with alternative payment platform Worldpay Group Plc.
Working alongside Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (the main corporate advisers on the transaction), Travers Smith advised Vantiv on the employee share schemes aspects of the transaction.
Latham & Watkins has advised Netflix on the acquisition of Millarworld, the comic book company founded by Mark Millar, creator of a number of iconic characters and stories, including Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan. The acquisition, the first ever by Netflix, is a natural progression in the company’s effort to work directly with creators and to acquire intellectual property and ownership of stories featuring compelling characters and timeless, interwoven fictional worlds.
Digitalist Group Plc has acquired the shares of NodeOne Ab and its subsidiaries, inter alia Wunderkraut Sweden AB, in a share exchange carried out in July. The Swedish parent company, together with its subsidiaries, will become part of the Digitalist Group if the conditions for the closing of the transaction are met. With the sale, the Digitalist Group will expand its operations to the Swedish markets and strengthen its offering of digitalisation services. Eversheds Sutherland represented the buyer in the arrangement.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised NetLink NBN Trust on the IPO of NetLink NBO Trust. The trust sold 2.9 billion units, including 185 million units for public offer.
Loyens & Loeff advised Inergy Analytical Solutions B.V., a Netherlands-based company, provider of business intelligence and data warehouse solutions, on the disposal of a majority stake of its shares to Main Capital Partners B.V., a Netherlands-based private equity firm.
A team of associates from the Corporate and M&A Practice at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners provided legal advice on a transaction involving the sale of shares in one of the companies belonging to National Media Group. The Firm’s associates structured the transaction, drafted all of the transactional documentation, worked with the depositary, and advised the Client throughout the entire process.
API International AG, a provider of digital data management systems for the automotive sector, has invested in newly established company DCI Digital Car Institute GmbH.
A CMS team led by Dr Juliane Voigtmann advised API International on all aspects of its investment in DCI Digital Car Institute. The transaction included API International transferring IP to DCI as part of an asset deal and also providing cash as growth capital via a joint round of financing with an IBG fund managed by bmp Ventures AG as co-investor.
City-headquartered law firm RPC has advised US-based data centre maintenance provider Park Place Technologies on its third major UK acquisition in a year, as it completes the purchase of competitor NCE Group.