Gide, counsel to Climater on the acquisition of French company Amardeilh (a plumbing and heating contractor) from Financière Da Costa

Gide has advised the Climater group, a climate engineering leader in France, on the acquisition of French company Amardeilh, a plumbing and heating contractor located in the Toulouse region (south-west of France), from its holding company Financière Da Costa.

Stuttgart – MDAX-listed Aareal Bank AG has acquired plusForta GmbH, the market-leading online intermediary for rent deposit guarantees. The transaction has already been successfully completed. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

A CMS team headed by lead partner Dr Claus-Peter Fabian advised Aareal Bank on all legal aspects of the transaction. The bank has also repeatedly relied on the expertise of CMS in the past.

Osborne Clarke advises Wireless Logic Group, Europe’s leading Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity platform provider on its acquisition of M2MBlue, a Machine to Machine (M2M) and IoT connectivity specialist with a focus on high-bandwidth applications.

Jones Day advised UPL Limited ("UPL"), a leading global generic agrochemical company based in India, in connection with its subsidiary, UPL Corporation Limited’s, US$4.2 billion acquisition of Arysta Lifescience Inc. (“Arysta”), a global provider of crop protection solutions, including bio-solutions and seed treatment, from NYSE listed Platform Specialty Products Corporation (“Platform”). This makes UPL the world’s fifth-largest crop-protection company, behind Bayer, DuPont, Syngenta, and BASF.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright advised Macquarie Infrastructure Partners and Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Macquarie, on Cleco’s US$1 billion purchase of NRG South Central Generating LLC.

Cleco and NRG South Central Generating, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, closed the deal on February 4, a year after the companies signed a purchase and sales agreement, following various state and federal regulatory approvals.