Eversheds Sutherland recently acted for Lifes2Good on the sale of its Viviscal hair care business to Church & Dwight, a listed US company and the owner of brands including Arm & Hammer. Lifes2Good is a Galway based company with offices in Chicago, London, Canada, Australia and Portugal.
 
The Eversheds Sutherland team advising Lifes2Good was led by the Head of the Corporate & Commercial Department, Gerard Ryan who was assisted by Senior Associate Enda Cullivan

Slaughter and May is advising Tata Steel UK on the sale of its Speciality Steels business to Liberty House Group for total consideration of £100 million.

Slaughter and May advised Equinix (UK) Limited on the purchase from IO of an operating data centre business in Slough, United Kingdom, consisting of one single site facility. The agreement was signed on 7 January 2017 and the acquisition completed on 3 February 2017.

Equinix is a leading global data centre provider operating 147 data centre facilities in 40 markets across 5 continents. It is a US Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) headquartered in Redwood City, California and listed on NASDAQ with a market capitalisation in excess of $27 billion.

 Led by their Hamburg partner Andreas Meyer Hogan Lovells has advised listed Dutch NXP Semiconductors N.V. on the sale of their standard products division to Chinese investors Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co., Ltd ("JAC Capital") and Wise Road Capital LTD ("Wise Road Capital").

The transaction also includes the sale of a chip factory and its property in Hamburg. The purchase price amounts to USD 2.75 Billion.

Macfarlanes has advised Greenergy, a leading British fuel supplier, on a major investment by Brookfield Business Partners, part of Canadian alternative asset management group Brookfield. The transaction aims to give Greenergy the leverage to accelerate its growth strategy in the UK and in other markets.

The Munich-based biotech company has raised an overall amount of €21.7 million so far in its series A financing round and will accelerate projects for the therapy of autoimmune diseases with the additional €4 million from the second closing.

Ashurst advised Ardian, the independent private investment company, on its acquisition from Techint, a major engineering and construction company, of the remaining 20% stake in HISI. This makes Ardian the sole shareholder in this company.

Schellenberg Wittmer acted as counsel to Credit Suisse Funds Ltd in connection with the set-up and approval process by FINMA of the newly authorized Swiss Mortgage Umbrella Fund as "other funds for traditional investments". This fund is dedicated to institutional investors and will launch a sub-fund with a strategy to invest in mortgages originated by Credit Suisse.
 
The Schellenberg Wittmer team included Caroline Clemetson (Partner - Banking and Finance), Nicole Egli (Senior Associate - Banking and Finance) and Roland Mathys (Partner – Data Protection).

We advised Gasum Ltd in selling its heat business and natural gas retail business to Auris Kaasunjakelu Oy in the Auris gas distribution network area. Anticipated to be completed by mid-February, the transaction is part of Gasum’s strategy in which the key objective is to expand the gas market based on biogas, natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Nordic countries.

Stibbe advises Tata Communications on its investment in Teleena Holding B.V., a mobile virtual network enabler headquartered in the Netherlands.

Tata Communications is a global company with more than 8,500 employees across 38 countries. The company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and is the flagship telecoms arm of the Tata Group.