Charles Russell Speechlys has advised Rockpool Investments on the recent buy-in management buyout of work wear provider, Wearwell. Established in 1939, Wearwell supplies a variety of industries with work wear, ranging from chefs’ whites through to lab coats and boiler suits. Rockpool has invested £5m in the transaction and this is Rockpool’s 11th deal of the year, increasing total capital invested to £60m.

Macfarlanes has advised Lexington Partners, a New York-based independent manager of secondary acquisition funds, on the closing of a large scale tender offer to investors in BC European Capital IX LP (BCEC IX). In aggregate, the transaction represents a total capital commitment of approximately $1bn from Lexington.

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz has advised Oldenburgische Landesbank on the public takeover offer of Bremer Kreditbank.

Loyens & Loeff advised BB Capital Investments B.V., a Netherlands based private equity company, on the acquisition of an undisclosed stake in Travel Health Group B.V., a Netherlands-based company engaged in providing anti-insect sprays, ointments and other health protection products for travelers.

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Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised Cyberhub Fintech Holdings (Cyberhub) on its investment in GSX Group Limited, the parent of GSX Limited, which operates the Gibraltar Stock Exchange.

NautaDutilh assisted WeWork Companies in connection with the USD 4.4 billion investment from the SoftBank Group and the SoftBank Vision Fund. The investments comprises amongst others a USD 900 million investment in two newly created Dutch joint venture companies, each controlled and managed by local WeWork management teams, which will fund WeWork’s expansion in China (WeWork China) and Southeast Asia and Korea (WeWork Pacific), respectively.  NautaDutilh co-counsel;ed with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on this deal.

Interntional law firm Osborne Clarke has advised Prodigy Finance, a global fintech platform that provides postgraduate loans to international students with no alternative access to finance, on a $40 million Series C equity round led by international venture capital firm Index Ventures, with involvement from Balderton Capital and AlphaCode. The round was part of a larger $240m capital raise, with the remainder coming from a global investment bank.

Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd. (BJEV), advised by King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), successfully completed its series B round of financing, raising RMB11.118 billion. It was by then the largest financing project in China's new energy vehicle industry, and made a new record of SOEs’ capital increase in China Beijing Equity Exchange (CBEX).

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised global private equity firm Rhône Capital LLC on its US$150 million preferred equity investment, through affiliated investment funds, in VistaJet.

The transaction values VistaJet, the global aviation company with a fleet of more than 70 aircraft that flies corporations, governments and private clients to 187 countries worldwide, in excess of US$2.5 billion. Rhône's investment, combined with secondary acquisitions, will give it US$200 million in preferred convertible shares in VistaJet.

DLA Piper represented StarCompliance, LLC, a provider of enterprise compliance and regulatory software solutions in the financial services industry, in the recent capital investment by Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.