Eversheds 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 team advising Lifes2Good was led by the Head of the Corporate & Commercial Department, Gerard Ryan who was assisted by Senior Associate Enda Cullivan.

Ashurst is advising EnQuest plc, the largest independent UK oil producer in the UK North Sea, on its agreement to buy a 25% stake in BP's Magnus oil field. EnQuest will also acquire 25% of BP’s interest in associated pipeline infrastructure in the UK’s northern North Sea and a 3% interest in the Sullom Voe Terminal (SVT) on Shetland from BP Exploration Operating Company Limited.

The US$85 million consideration will be funded by deferred consideration payable from the cash flow from the assets. 

AG's Manchester Corporate team is celebrating a strong start to 2017 having advised PE house LDC, and Salford based Frenkel Topping, a leading Independent Financial Adviser, on their respective investments into two expanding businesses in the space of one week.

Osborne Clarke has advised Rush Hair Limited’s management and shareholders in an equity release transaction that was backed by a £16m investment from private equity house LDC.

Launched over 22 years ago by hairdressers Andy Phouli and Stell Andrew, Rush is a nationwide hairdressing chain with 85 branches. The business employs over 1,100 stylists and beauticians and serves over 13,000 customers a week. LDC’s investment will increase its market position, supporting a drive to double the number of stores in the next four years.

The fashion retailer Charles Vögele has sold a large part of its German store network to the retailers TEDi, WOOLWORTH and KiK. Gleiss Lutz advised Charles Vögele and its share-holders OVS and Sempione Retail comprehensively in the course of this transaction.

In the future, the three retailers TEDi, WOOLWORTH and KiK will, subject to the consent of the lessors, operate these stores under their respective brands and with their specific business concepts,. It is currently planned to transfer the rental agreements in the second quarter of 2017.

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie advised Swiss private equity advisory firm Zurmont Madison as it completed a General Partner-led fund restructuring process for its 2007-vintage Zurmont Madison Private Equity LP (ZMPE) fund, and launched a new vehicle, ZM Opportunity II LP.

Baker McKenzie advised the automotive supplier Presswerk Krefeld on the acquisition of the business units of IBEX Automotive GmbH and the Kunze GmbH brothers out of insolvency. Sellers were the insolvency administrators RA Rüdiger Wienberg (for Gebrüder Kunze GmbH) and RA Kai Dellit (for Ibex Automotive GmbH) of hww. The parties agreed not to disclose the value of the transaction.

Hill Dickinson’s corporate team has advised on the private equity backed management buyout of Fishawack Group, which values the medical communications specialist at £38m.

A team led by tax law expert Klaus Weinand-Härer, banking supervisory law expert Dr. Christoph Gringel, and Corporate/M&A expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger of the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised youmex AG, Frankfurt am Main, on taking over inprimo privatinvest GmbH's private client business. The business was integrated into youmex Wealth Management AG as a subsidiary of youmex AG.
 

Gide has advised Idinvest on its investment, via its fund Electranova Capital and in partnership with Ecomobility Ventures, in Neurala alongside Pelion Venture Partners, Sherpa Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, 360 Capital Partners, Draper Associates Investments and SK Ventures. The seed round raised USD 14 million. Based in Boston, Neurala is the pioneer in deep learning neural network software that helps machines and robots learn and interact with the world.

The team was comprised of partner David-James Sebag and Pauline Schaeffer