International law firm Ashurst is advising the lenders on new acquisition facilities supporting Life Company Consolidation Group's ("LCCG") agreement with Generali to acquire the entire shareholdings in Generali Worldwide Insurance Company Limited ("Generali Worldwide") and Generali Link Limited ("Generali Link).

Generali will receive approximately €409 million as base consideration and a contingent consideration of up to €10 million to be paid at completion, for the sale of its stakes in Generali Worldwide and Generali Link.

Schulte advised Priority Holdings LLC, one of the nation's fastest growing payments companies, in its definitive purchase agreement with M I Acquisitions Inc. to become a publicly traded company. Priority and M I, a special purpose acquisition company, will combine and be renamed Priority Technology Holdings Inc. The transaction builds upon Priority Holdings' growth strategy, uniquely positioning them as a highly differentiated technology platform that delivers a value-added collection of payment and business solutions.

DLA Piper has advised one of the world’s leading hotel companies, the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), on the opening of its first Kimpton hotel in Germany. Opening in 2023, the hotel will be situated within a listed building on the Junghofstrasse in Frankfurt’s city centre, and will form part of the company's rapidly expanding Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants brand.
"The hotel will form part of the company's rapidly expanding Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants brand."

Clifford Chance Badea has advised ROCKWOOL Romania during negotiations with CON-A Sibiu of the construction contract for a factory in Ploiesti, an initial investment of 50-million Euro that will represent the Danish group's first stone wool factory of Romania.

Baker McKenzie successfully advised Shawcorp Investments on its agreement to sell  Modular Building Systems (MBS) to Fleetwood Corporation for $34 million.
MBS is based in New South Wales and specialises in the manufacture and installation of prefabricated modular buildings. MBS is one of two builders on a panel appointed to build modular cells for the NSW Government. MBS also has the Australian rights to use all patented steel prison cell designs belonging to US company Maximum Security Systems for 10 years.

Slaughter and May advised Marks & Spencer on the launch of Founders Factory Retail, a joint venture with Founders Factory focused on investing and growing start-ups. M&S will become Founders Factory’s exclusive UK retail partner, and invest in a number of start-ups, sourced through Founders Factory’s global network, which will expose the business to new technologies, business models and entrepreneurial thinking, as it seeks to put digital at the heart of its transformation strategy.

London - A team of lawyers from global law firm K&L Gates’ London and Singapore offices has advised longtime client and successful Vietnamese low-cost airline Vietjet on the order of a total of a further 150 aircraft announced during the Farnborough International Airshow 2018. Consisting of 100 737 MAX airplanes (80 737 MAX 10s and 20 737 MAX 8s) from Boeing and 50 A321neo Airbus aircraft from Airbus, the orders are valued at close to $20 billion at current list prices.