International law firm Withers has advised Pro-invest Group in completing its A$300 million capital raise for its inaugural Australian hotel fund.

The fund will invest in Australian and New Zealand properties that will be developed into Holiday Inn Express branded hotels. The brand is franchised from UK-listed hotel group InterContinental Hotels Group PLC and is one of the world's leading, and fastest growing, quality select service brands.

Ashurst advised Peel Hunt LLP as nominated adviser, joint bookrunner and joint broker and Liberum Capital Limited as joint bookrunner and joint broker on the IPO of Joules Group plc ("Joules"), a British premium lifestyle brand, which has approximately 100 stores and its lines sold in major UK retailers including John Lewis and Next.

Davis Polk advised Delta Lloyd N.V. (“Delta Lloyd”) on a fully underwritten rights offering of 227,567,943 new ordinary shares at a price of €2.85 per share, which raised net proceeds of approximately €650 million. The rights offering comprised public offers in the Netherlands and Belgium and private placements in certain other jurisdictions to institutional investors, including in the United States. The new ordinary shares were admitted to trading on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels.

European law firm Fieldfisher has advised AIM-quoted EVR Holdings (previously Armstrong Ventures), a media, technology and healthcare investment company, on its £5.12m acquisition of MelodyVR, and the re-admission of the company's enlarged share capital to trading on AIM.

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised TSX-v listed SDX Energy Inc. (SDX) on its admission to trading on AIM and private placement fundraising on AIM for a total of approx. US$11m. Admission became effective today. The proceeds of the placing will allow SDX to pursue its goal of doubling current production in Egypt and complete a 3D Seismic programme, also in Egypt.

In a landmark deal for the oil & gas sector, SDX's admission to AIM is the first IPO in the sector in London this year.

Eversheds has advised Investec Bank plc (as Nomad and Joint Broker) and Zeus Capital Limited (as Joint Broker) in connection with the acquisition of Bibendum PLB Group and £32m placing of new shares by Conviviality Plc.

Conviviality Plc today announced the acquisition of Bibendum PLB Group, one of the largest wine, spirit and beer distributors and wholesalers to the UK on-trade and off-trade markets, for an enterprise value of £60 million.

The acquisition was part funded through a placing of £32 million new ordinary shares.

EQT has announced the successful completion of the public tender offer for all publicly held registered shares of Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd ("Kuoni").

Sydney, Australia, 20 May 2016 – Baker & McKenzie successfully acted for Macquarie Capital (Australia) Limited and UBS AG, Australia Branch as joint lead managers and underwriters of the A$107m fully underwritten institutional placement by Mantra Group Limited.

Mantra Group Limited is the largest Australian based hotel and resort marketer and operator, offering over 19,500+ rooms under management for owners in properties across Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.

NautaDutilh assisted Core Laboratories with a $172 million equity offering which launched and closed within an unprecedented one week period, followed by the cross-listing of the shares issued under the offering on the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam.

Core Laboratories is a leading provider of reservoir description, production enhancement, and reservoir management services to the world's major, national, and independent oil companies in order to optimise recovery from existing oil fields.

On May 11, 2016, EFG International, a global private banking group offering private banking and asset management services, headquartered in Zurich, announced the results of its rights offering further to the ordinary share capital increase approved by the Annual General Meeting on April 29, 2016.