Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co's Tech sector team has helped new client, Breezie, to secure a strategic investment from the Ziegler Link•Age Longevity Fund.

Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co's Tech team has helped new client, Breezie, to secure a strategic investment from the Ziegler Link•Age Longevity Fund.

Breezie, a software and services platform, is pioneering the use of modern touch screen devices, smart analytics and accessibility to radically simplify the online experience for digitally isolated seniors.

King & Wood Mallesons (“KWM”) advised Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (“Fonterra”) to successfully acquire 18.82% shares in Beingmate, a leading infant formula producer in China with its shares listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, through partial tender offer. The transactional value of this acquisition is approximately RMB 3.464 billion. The share acquisition is a significant part of the strategic collaboration between the parties.

King & Wood Mallesons advised Azulis Capital on the sale of its stake in Numafi (holding of Numalliance).

Owned by the Azulis Capital fund MMF III for nine years, Numalliance completed its 3rd MBO with InnovaFonds. BNP Paribas Développement and Euro Capital, who have accompanied the group since 2006, acquired a minority stake, while Bpifrance Investissement and Société Générale Capital Partenaires joined the investor group.

King & Wood Mallesons advised Lion Capital on the sale of a part of its stake in Picard Group to Aryzta AG.

Lion Capital, the owner of the French frozen food retailer Picard since 2010, has entered into exclusive negotiations with Aryzta, one of the world’s largest frozen bakery companies based in Switzerland. Under the terms of the investment, Aryzta will acquire a 49% shareholding in Picard for a consideration of €446.6 million.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Chinese-owned holding company Cai GmbH on the sale of its remaining 12.5 per cent interest in GROHE Group S.a r.l., the world’s leading supplier of sanitary fittings. It was bought by the Japanese Lixil Corporation which had already become the main shareholder of GROHE with an 87.5 per cent majority share last year.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised L-Bank in respect of a majority takeover agreement between On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. (“OnSSI”) and SeeTec AG (“SeeTec”). Since 2009 L-Bank has been a major investor in SeeTec. The complex transaction was realized by way of a cross share deal.

Osborne Clarke has advised Rethink Group, the recruitment and talent management specialist, on an investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGF), and the acquisition of talent management company, Consort Group. The investment and acquisition follows on from the tender offer and delisting of The ReThink Group Plc from trading on AIM, which the Osborne Clarke team advised on earlier this year.

Hannes Snellman acts as counsel to the Nordgren/Pihl family in FAM’s investment in packaging solutions company Nefab. FAM will become co-owner of Nefab by means of a targeted new share issue for SEK 1.1 billion.

The deal is subject to approval by the relevant authorities.

Our core team includes: Sören Lindström, Richard Åkerman, Peter Forsberg, Shoan Panahi, Nils Svantemark and Xandra Carlsson.

Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Hotel Shilla (“Shilla”) in entering into a broad strategic partnership with DFASS Group (“DFASS”) to become a global leader in duty free travel retail. Under the agreement, Shilla will acquire a 44% stake in DFASS and collaborate to develop new and existing duty free concessions, expand in-flight concession services, and strengthen its wholesale distribution business.

Linklaters has advised AustralianSuper on its acquisition of an indirect interest of just over 25% in the development project at King’s Cross.

The King’s Cross project, which spans a 67 acre site in central London, will be comprised of over 50 new and refurbished buildings with a total value, once complete, of approximately £5bn, and is a mixed use scheme including residential, office, retail, hotel, university, community and leisure.