King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advises Ysios Capital on the structuring and close of its second fund, Ysios BioFund II Innvierte, after receiving capital commitments of €126.4 M and exceeding its initial target fund size of €100 M. The strategy of this new fund is to invest in biotech start-ups and development phase companies.

Legal advice to Ysios Capital was led by Madrid Funds partner Isabel Rodríguez with the assistance of senior associate Ildefonso Alier.

International law firm Ashurst represents Delta Capital Myanmar (formerly known as PMM Partners) as the lead fund counsel on the establishment of their second Myanmar focused private equity fund, which successfully closed on a seed round of US$30 million capital commitments on 1 November 2016.
 

Macfarlanes has advised the senior management team of Alter Domus as it is announced that it has secured a significant investment from funds advised by global investment firm Permira to accelerate its international growth strategy.

Alter Domus is a leading provider of Fund and Corporate Services dedicated to international private equity and infrastructure houses, real estate firms, private debt managers, multinationals, capital markets issuers and private clients, with 31 offices and desks across five continents.

Ashurst is advising Oakley Advisory in relation to the £165.3 million recommended takeover of Alternative Networks plc by Daisy Intermediate Holdings Limited, announced today. 

Slaughter and May and Uría Menéndez, working as an integrated team, are advising Banco Santander, S.A. on an agreement to acquire the remaining 50% stake in Santander Asset Management (SAM) currently held by global private equity firms Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic. As a result of the agreement, which was announced on 16 November 2016 and is conditional upon regulatory approvals, the Santander Group will acquire 100% ownership of SAM.

Orrick has advised Crédit Agricole Assurances and AXA IM - Real Assets in their joint acquisition of a 42 percent stake in Atlandes, the concession holder of France’s A63 motorway, from InfraRed Capital Partners. The remaining 58 percent of Atlandes is held by minority industrial and financial investors. This transaction is the first partnership between these two institutional investors and is the first direct investment into the infrastructure sector by AXA’s infrastructure equity team.

Beijing - Paul Hastings LLP advised Taikang Insurance Group Inc. (“Taikang”) on the acquisition of a 26.44% stake in Harmonicare Medical Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the largest private obstetrics and gynecology specialty hospital group in the PRC.

Hill Dickinson’s corporate team has advised private equity firm Foresight Group on its £3m investment in Merseyside based diagnostic imaging service provider, Med Imaging Healthcare. 

Foresight’s investment facilitates a partial buy-out of the business and as part of the transaction Christopher Langley, an experienced chief executive and chairman with more than ten years’ experience in healthcare, has been appointed as non-executive chairman.

Kirkland & Ellis is acting for COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Limited (a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed China Foods Limited (HKSE: 506) and a subsidiary of state-owned COFCO Corporation) in its RMB 3.4 billion acquisition of equity interests in the bottling operations from The Coca-Cola Company and Swire Beverages Holdings Limited, and in its sale through auction of its equity interests in the bottling operations in China at an aggregate reserve price of RMB2.1 billion.

Advising Areva in connection with signing of the contract setting the terms of the sale of an interest conferring exclusive control by EDF of an entity (“NEW NP”), a 100% subsidiary of AREVA NP, that will combine AREVA Group’s activities relating to design and equipments’ manufacturing of nuclear reactor and, fuel design and assemblies manufacturing and services to the nuclear installed base.