International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Lucid Group on its acquisition of creative and digital consultancy, Bluedog.
Founded in 2007, Lucid Group is an industry leader in providing medical communications that transforms patients’ lives. Currently it has four stand-alone companies within its group; Leading Edge, Lighthouse, Lucid Partners and Vivid.
DLA Piper Canada represented CDW Canada Corp. ("CDW Canada") in its acquisition of Scalar Decisions Inc. (“Scalar”), a leading technology solutions provider in Canada with locations across the country and trailing 12-month net sales of approximately C$250 million. CDW Canada is a subsidiary of CDW Corp., a Fortune 200 company that provides a broad range of IT solutions to business, government, education and healthcare organizations in the US, the UK and Canada.
The firm's Corporate Restructuring team advised Irish PE fund Causeway Capital Partners on its purchase of Patisserie Valerie, which has been bought out of administration.
Burges Salmon’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team has advised private equity firm Causeway Capital Partners on its acquisition of Patisserie Valerie, a UK café chain which went into administration in January 2019.
Squire Patton Boggs has advised UK-based GB Group plc in its US$300 million acquisition of Atlanta-based IDology, a digital identity verification and authentication service that fights fraud. This is GB Group’s largest acquisition to date and will give the company a strong footing in the US, a strategic growth area for the company.
THQ Nordic AB’s wholly owned subsidiary Koch Media GmbH has entered into an agreement to acquire 18POINT2 Pty Ltd, one of Australia’s leading publishing partners of games products, and Prague based Warhorse Studios, the studio behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Dechert LLP advised Generali, one of the world’s leading insurers, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Sycomore Factory SAS, the controlling company of Sycomore Asset Management SA, pioneer in the ESG/SRI sector in Europe, with the aim of developing a strategic partnership.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised the private equity investor Ardian and its portfolio company d&b audiotechnik on the acquisition of its Chinese distributor in Hong Kong and Mainland China. d&b audiotechnik, headquartered in Backnang near Stuttgart, Germany, is one of the world's leading suppliers of premium audio technology and produces high-end audio reinforcement systems for mobile and installed applications.
CMS has advised long-standing key client OTP Bank Group (OTP) on the acquisition of 87.85% of Mobiasbanca, currently part of the French Societe Generale (SG) group. Mobiasbanca is the fourth largest bank in Moldova with a market share of 13.3%. The transaction is expected to close in the coming months pending all necessary regulatory and merger clearance approvals.
On Feb. 12, 2019, Doxim announced that it had acquired Market Connections, Inc. ("MCI"), a customer communications and campaign management technology provider to wealth management and other financial services organizations.
Leading commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has advised SysGroup PLC (‘SysGroup’) on its acquisition of Certus IT Limited (‘Certus IT’), for an initial cash consideration of £8.0 million, increasing to a maximum cash consideration of £9.0 million dependent on the performance of Certus in the 12 month period following completion (‘acquisition’).