An energy and infrastructure team, led by David Wyles and Silke Goldberg, has advised Transmission Capital Partners (TCP), a joint venture between International Public Partnerships, Amber Infrastructure Group and Transmission Investment, on the financing and acquisition (for £298 million) of the transmission link to the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Norfolk in the UK.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised Vobile Group Limited on the acquisition of assets from IP-Echelon, an Australian premium provider of data analytics with a focus on data analytics technology development and applications in content protection services.

The KWM team was responsible in the preparation and negotiation of the relevant transaction documents, as well as conducting due diligence matters in connection with the transaction in respect of both Hong Kong and Australian laws.

The transaction was the first acquisition by new £100m energy storage investment fund, Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc, which was recently admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Burges Salmon’s Corporate team has advised Gresham House Asset Management, acting in its role as asset manager, on the sale by multiple sellers of five fully operational battery storage facilities, with a combined capacity of 70MW, to Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (the “Fund”).

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised L'Etoile Properties Real Estate Investment Management GmbH ("L'Etoile") and Koramco Asset Management Co. Ltd. ("Koramco") on the acquisition of a logistics property in Garbsen near Hanover by way of a share deal for around 86 million euros. In this transaction, Koramco acts as asset manager for Korean real estate funds, backed by Korean investors. The seller is the Baum Group, which developed the property itself.

DLA Piper represented INEOS Enterprises in its proposed US$1.1 billion acquisition of Ashland Global Holdings' Composites business, as well as a butanediol (BDO) manufacturing facility in Marl, Germany.

The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019, subject to regulatory approvals and consultation processes.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised on the £100m Initial Public Offering by Cantor Fitzgerald Europe of shares in Gresham House Energy Storage Fund PLC (the Fund) a new investment trust company managed by Gresham House Asset Management (GHAM).

Travers Smith LLP has advised Mears Group PLC, a leading service partner to the UK social housing and care sectors, on the acquisition from Mitie Group PLC of its maintenance services business. The acquired business provides reactive and planned maintenance services to housing clients in the UK.

Travers Smith also advised on a parallel placing of shares in the capital of Mears to raise approximately £22.5 million to fund the initial cash consideration for the Acquisition.