Charles Russell Speechlys has acted as the legal adviser to IDG Capital Partners (IDG), the venture capital firm focussed on Chinese companies, on its investment in the online luxury fashion platform, Farfetch.com. Founded in 2008 by entrepreneur José Neves, the online shopping platform, headquartered in London, has grown to showcase more than 1,000 brands.

IDG Capital Partners was one of the lead investors, alongside Temasek and Eurazeo, in the $110 million Series F funding round.

International technology, media and telecoms law firm Olswang has advised global content production company FremantleMedia on its investment into Squawka, the London-based football digital media business. FremantleMedia is now the single largest shareholder in the business, having taken an initial stake of almost 35% with options to increase its shareholding.

In April 2016, Eubelius assisted in the 1 Mio EUR investment by PMV NV and Pamica NV in IT start-up ScriptBook NV.

ScriptBook NV assists stakeholders in the film business with their greenlighting decisions by providing an algorithmic assessment of a script’s box office potential, prior to financing, producing & releasing a film.

Eubelius served as transaction counsel. The Eubelius team for the transaction was led by Filip Jenné, Robin Van Gysel and Elias Van Marcke.

CMS acted for long standing client, Kulczyk Investments, on the sale of 24 million ordinary shares in SABMiller plc (representing approximately 1.5% of SABMiller’s share capital), via an accelerated bookbuild arranged by Credit Suisse. The sale realised gross proceeds of £1,003,200,000 and represented the largest ever accelerated bookbuild in the food and beverage sector (and the second largest bookbuild in EMEA so far this year).

DLA Piper has acted as international and Australian counsel for Shanghai-listed ENN Ecological Holdings Co., Ltd (ENN), the largest private natural gas company in China, on its recent acquisition of Hony Capital’s approximately 11.72% stake in Australian-energy company, Santos Limited (Santos). The total consideration was approximately US$750 million.

Noerr has provided the Africa Internet Group with wide-ranging advice on several successful rounds of financing with a total value of more than €300 million. On a cash-flow basis Africa’s largest internet platform is valued at €1 billion.

Vinge advises Statoil in connection with its sale of a 15 percent interest in the Edvard Grieg field to Lundin Petroleum. Through the transaction, Statoil increases its shareholding in Lundin Petroleum to approximately 20.1 percent.
 
Vinge’s team consists of Göran Nyström and Dain Hård Nevonen.

Travers Smith LLP has advised all selling shareholders, including private equity firm Livingbridge and the founders of Frank Recruitment Group (‘FRG’), on the sale of FRG to TPG Growth.

Founded in Newcastle, UK in 2007, FRG is a leading niche recruitment firm for IT professionals who specialise in enterprise software.  FRG employs more than 700 people across its offices in London, Melbourne, New York, Newcastle, San Francisco, and Singapore and operates four trading brands that each focus on a specific technology product.

BBC Worldwide will take a ten per cent stake in the literary and talent agency in return for its investment.

European law firm Fieldfisher has advised long-standing client BBC Worldwide on its investment in Curtis Brown, the literary and talent agency, in return for a ten per cent stake.

The Canadian pension fund, The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has acquired a 5% stake in the company Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos (CLH). This transaction took place in the framework of the oil companies selling their shares in CLH.

Thus, the shareholding structure of the company comprises 11 groups, including financial entities and investment funds. Ardian and Boreals Spain Parent are the majority shareholders, with almost half the stake.