Osborne Clarke has advised growth investor Synova Capital on the management buy-out of Mintec Global, a world leading provider of global pricing data and intelligence for non-traded food ingredients.
Osborne Clarke has advised the senior management team of Cloud Savings Company Limited on its acquisition of Invitation Digital Limited (“IDL”), owner and operator of the Vouchercloud and Giftcloud brands, following a management buy-out from the Vodafone Group, placing the company back in the hands of its original founders, Scott Davidson and Greg Le Tocq.
DLA Piper has advised the UK’s largest franchised dealer group, Sytner. on its acquisition of The Car People, nearly doubling the size of their Used Vehicle Supermarket Division. This is Sytner’s second car supermarket takeover in the last 12 months, having acquired CarShop earlier last year, a transaction in which DLA Piper also advised on.
The Car People operates from four locations in Wakefield, Sheffield, Manchester and Warrington, and sells about 18,000 vehicles a year.
Slaughter and May and BonelliErede, working as an integrated team, are advising Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. (Richemont) on a proposed voluntary public tender offer (to be made by a newly formed wholly-owned Italian subsidiary of Richemont) to acquire all of the ordinary shares of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group S.p.A.
London – January 22, 2018 – Cooley advised the senior management team of Atcore Technology Group, a leading travel technology company, on its sale to Inflexion Private Equity. Private equity partner Stephen Rosen led the Cooley team.
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising American International Group on the acquisition of the Validus Group, a leading provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and asset management services. The transaction is expected to close mid-2018.
Holders of Validus common shares will receive cash consideration of $68.00 per share, for an aggregate transaction value of $5.56 billion, funded by cash on hand.
The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised Philipp Lahm Holding GmbH on the acquisition of a majority in health food producer Schneekoppe.
A team led by Dr. Pär Johansson from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advised German investment firm Odewald KMU II, which specializes in medium-sized businesses, on the acquisition of Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH from Nordwalde.
Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH specializes in installing and modernizing door drives for elevators and safety doors on or in machinery. Its managing majority shareholders reinvested their interests as part of the transaction and will continue to manage the group.
DLA Piper has advised the UK’s largest franchised dealer group, Sytner. on its acquisition of The Car People, nearly doubling the size of their Used Vehicle Supermarket Division. This is Sytner’s second car supermarket takeover in the last 12 months, having acquired CarShop earlier last year, a transaction in which DLA Piper also advised on.
The Car People operates from four locations in Wakefield, Sheffield, Manchester and Warrington, and sells about 18,000 vehicles a year.
Zurich - FlexLink AB, headquarted in Göteborg (Sweden) announced the acquisition of Swiss factory automation company SSS-Fördertechnik AG (Switzerland) effective 1 January 2018. SSS-Fördertechnik AG will become part of FlexLink AB under the name of FlexLink Switzerland GmbH and will take responsibility for sales in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.