Ashurst has advised Jamie's Italian Limited (JIL) and The Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group (JORG) on the buy back of its six franchise restaurant businesses in Australia from Keystone Group Holdings Pty Ltd (Keystone Group), which entered into administration and receivership in July 2016.

JIL and JORG entered into a sale agreement with Keystone Group acting by its receivers and managers and administrators to buy back the five Jamie's Italian and one Trattoria restaurants operating across Australia for an undisclosed sum.
 

Eversheds Sutherland’s (International) clean energy team has advised PiP on its acquisition of six 5MW solar farms from Trina Solar Limited.

DLA Piper has advised Catella Real Estate AG on the acquisition of a fourth property for its special fund "IWS II – Wirtschaftsregion Süddeutschland" (IWS II): a retail park of approximately 8,500 square metres in Nuremberg, currently 100% let on a long-term basis. The tenants include Aldi, dm, McFit and catering company Asia Palace, amongst others. The seller is a property-holding company of the P&P Group from Fürth.

Clifford Chance advised specialty chemicals group ALTANA, Wesel, Germany, on the acquisition of a novel metallography technology from Israeli Landa group.

DLA Piper represented The Meridian Group, a prominent real estate investment and development firm, in the acquisition and financing of Tysons Metro Center, a four-building Class A office complex in Tysons, Virginia.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Infrastructure Capital Group (ICG) and the Energy Infrastructure Trust (EIT) on the successful acquisition of the Bald Hills Wind Farm – a 52-turbine wind farm with an aggregate installed capacity of 106.6MW located in South Gippsland, Victoria. The wind farm has an offtake agreement with Alinta that runs to 2030.

EIT acquired the Bald Hills Wind Farm from the project’s developer, Mitsui & Co, bringing ICG’s renewable energy generation capacity to 455MW across five wind farms in Australia.

RPC, the City-headquartered law firm, has advised Zebra A/S, the Copenhagen based parent company of Danish homewares retailer Flying Tiger Copenhagen, formerly known as Tiger, on its acquisition of certain of the retailer’s UK stores.

Labelled “the Danish answer to Ikea”, Tiger Retail Limited was brought over to the UK by former photographer Philip Bier and his wife Emma Bier in 2005.

Led by its partners Nikolas Zirngibl (M&A), Marc Werner (Hospitality) and Martin Günther (Real Estate) Lovells advised U City Public Company Ltd. on the combined acquisition of Vienna House hotel portfolio from two Austrian private foundations and Warimpex Finanz- und Beteiligungs AG.

U City will take over 24 3 to 5 star ranked andel's, angelo and Vienna House branded hotels in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.

Clifford Chance has advised Cinven and its portfolio company CeramTec on the takeover of UK Electro-Ceramics, with production sites in Ruabon and Southampton, from Morgan Advanced Materials plc.

The deal involves the sale of the entire division for GBP 47 million as part of an asset deal and is due to complete at the beginning of April 2017.

The publicly listed company WCM Beteiligungs- und Grundbesitz-AG (WCM AG) is acquiring 94.9 percent of the shares in a retail center with an area of approximately 12,304 square meters in Jena and shareholder loans, equaling a total gross purchase price of almost EUR 21 m.