Matheson Advises Facebook Co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Group

Matheson recently advised B Capital on an $8.1 million Series A investment round in SilverCloud Health, an Irish digital health company that provides online therapeutic solutions to improve behavioural health and mental wellness.

B Capital Group is an international venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Singapore, which was founded by Raj Ganguly and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

Houthoff Buruma advised H2 Equity Partners on its investment in TB&C Investments B.V. and TB&C Holding GmbH (“TB&C”), a global supplier of hybrid components for automotive sunroofs.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Michiel Pannekoek , Bram Caudri , Daphne van Boxtel , Merel Zwankhuizen , Michael Loomeyer , Gerrit Oosterhuis , Tessa Rosenberg Polak

Clifford Chance has advised Airbus on the sale of its shares in Atlas Elektronik group to thyssenkrupp. thyssenkrupp already holds a 51% interest in Atlas Elektronik. With the aquisition of the 49% interest in the group currently held by Airbus, thyssenkrupp will become the sole owner of Atlas Elektronik. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Completion of the transaction is subject to certain approvals.

Sydney: Clifford Chance is advising Mondelez International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) on the sale of most of its grocery business in Australia and New Zealand (excluding Philadelphia cream cheese) to Bega Cheese Limited (ASX: BGA) for AU$460 million.

Charles Russell Speechlys has advised Mobeus Equity Partners on its investment in Tapas Revolution, the UK restaurant chain offering Spanish tapas cuisine that was founded by celebrity chef Omar Allibhoy.

Tapas Revolution, which first opened in 2010 now has five sites, in Westfield, Shoreditch, Bluewater, Birmingham and Sheffield. Its Spanish tapas offering has proven popular and it has now sought Mobeus’ funding to expand its offering to Newcastle and Bath, which will open in spring 2017.

Noerr has advised the shareholders of think project! GmbH on an investment by the private equity firm TA Associates in the company.

DWF has advised Whitbread, the UK’s largest hotel, restaurant and coffee shop operator, on a pair of forward funding deals in London valued at over £200m combined.

The two transactions, a 339 room hub by Premier Inn in Westminster with M&G and 326 room Premier Inn in Farringdon with Aviva, completed in the final week of 2016 at an initial yield of 4% and are part of Whitbread’s property strategy to continue to carry out sale and leaseback transactions in the UK and Germany.

Shoosmiths has advised Cambridge-based speech technology company, Speechmatics, on investments received from a range of investors to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its speech recognition products.

Clifford Chance, through its associated office in Jakarta, Linda Widyati & Partners (LWP), has advised Qatar-based energy company Nebras Power Q.S.C on the acquisition from Engie of 35.5% in PT Paiton Energy, Indonesia's largest Independent Power Provider (IPP).

Paiton has more than 2000MW installed capacity, which represents 4% of Indonesia's installed capacity. Clifford Chance also advised on the acquisition of a stake in the Operations & Maintenance company that runs Paiton.

Shoosmiths has advised the management team of global tech specialists Phlexglobal on a significant investment by Vitruvian Partners ('Vitruvian').

Phlexglobal are world-renowned thought leaders and specialists in the provision of electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) systems and services to the life sciences industry. The transaction establishes Vitruvian as majority shareholder of Phlexglobal while the previous majority investor Bridgepoint Development Capital ('BDC') will exit the company.