Houthoff Buruma represented Bregal Freshstream LLP, a UK-based private equity fund of Bregal Investments LLP, on the acquisition of a minority stake in Euro-Caps Holding B.V., a Netherlands-based company engaged in the manufacturing of private label coffee capsules.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Jan-Paul van der Hoek , Mark Miedema , Vivian van de Haterd , Martine Bijkerk , Thomas de Rave , Anne Alkemade , Gerard van der Linden , Fleur Tuinzing-Westerhuis

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has advised PHD Equity Partners on its investment in Nottinghamshire-based supplier of arts materials, Teaching Art Limited.

Teaching Art has received a £4m investment from PHD Equity Partners and Praetura Commercial Finance to fund its expansion.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) advised Cinven on its sale of 40% of its equity stake in Visma, a leading provider of business critical software to small and medium sized businesses in the Nordic and Benelux regions, to a group of investors led by HgCapital.
 

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has advised Europe’s largest digital health provider Push Doctor on a series B funding round which has raised £20.2 million.

Manchester-headquartered Push Doctor is a digital health consumer brand, connecting patients to a smart network of thousands of UK qualified GPs, giving them access to a doctor in as little as six minutes on any device.

Lazada shareholders will receive proceeds of more than a billion US dollars from the complete takeover of the leading South-East Asian shopping portal by China’s internet giant Alibaba. The sellers, who include more than 20 existing shareholders such as Rocket Internet, Tesco, Kinnevik, Summit Partners and J.P. Morgan relied on Noerr’s advice during the transaction (which Lazada values at US$3.15 billion) like during the investment in Alibaba a year ago.

SINGAPORE, June 30, 2017 – In a significant transaction involving Vietnam’s dynamic food and beverage sector, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised private sector conglomerate Masan Group and its meat products division, Masan Nutri-Science, in a $250 million investment by leading private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). Vietnam is Asia’s third-largest market for meat, after China and India.

The financial investor of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, SevenVentures GmbH, has sold a majority of the investments in its media-for-equity portfolio to the US private equity fund Lexington Partners. The transaction volume is in the mid double-digit million range.

Cleary Gottlieb and Nctm Studio Legal assisted Peninsula Capital in the acquisition of 13% of New Passenger Transport S.p.A. (“NTV”), the first Italian operator on the high-speed rail network, operating under the Italo brand.

The transaction, which saw the sale by some shareholders of 13% of the share capital, allows Peninsula Capital to become one of the largest shareholders of NTV.

A team led by Michael Neises, partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's Frankfurt office, advised the shareholders of FEUER powertrain GmbH & Co. KG on the sale of shares to Chinese Haowu Group.

As part of the transaction, Haowu Group will initially take a 50% holding in FEUER powertrain. As a next step an increased cooperation on the Chinese market is planned by the parties by forming a local joint venture. Further details of the transaction were not disclosed.

We are acting as the legal advisor to S Group in its acquisition of the Stockmann Delicatessen business in Finland. In the planned transaction, the Delicatessen stores in the centre of Helsinki, Tapiola and in the Itis and Jumbo shopping centres will be transferred to HOK-Elanto. The Delicatessen store in Turku will be transferred to the Turku Regional Cooperative, and the store in Tampere to the Tampere Regional Cooperative.