Eversheds Sutherland has advised new client TDKP Limited (Moneypenny) on its acquisition of Made Simple Group (Made Simple).

Moneypenny is the world's leading provider of telephone answering, outsourced switchboard, Live Chat and customer contact solutions.

Made Simple is home to a range of products dedicated to providing online solutions to the start-up and small business communities, such as company formation, virtual offices, website creation and most recently a co-working space in central London. 

Munich - Frankfurt Stock Exchange listed KPS AG acquires Infront Consulting & Management GmbH, Hamburg. Taylor Wessing has been advising Munich based KPS AG as buyer in this transaction. KPS is a consulting specialist for business transformation and process optimisation and counts to the leading consulting companies in this field in Europe. Infront is a leading consulting boutique for digital strategy and transformation in the German-speaking countries. The parties agreed not to reveal the purchase price. The transaction is closed.
Legal advisor KPS AG

Slaughter and May is advising Corsair Capital on the acquisition of the majority of RGI, one of the leading providers of core software solutions to the insurance market, from Ardian.

Slaughter and May worked as an integrated team with BonelliErede in Milan.

DLA Piper has advised BEWi, one of the leading players in the Nordics for the development and production of insulation products and customized packaging solutions made from cellular plastic, EPS, on its acquisition of Ruukin EPS, a Finnish manufacturer of insulation material.

This transaction provides BEWi a stronger geographical presence in Finland and enables it to offer insulation material and packaging solutions in expanded polystyrene (EPS) as it does in the rest of the Nordics.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised new client TDKP Limited (Moneypenny) on its acquisition of Made Simple Group (Made Simple).

Moneypenny is the world's leading provider of telephone answering, outsourced switchboard, Live Chat and customer contact solutions.

Made Simple is home to a range of products dedicated to providing online solutions to the start-up and small business communities, such as company formation, virtual offices, website creation and most recently a co-working space in central London. 

DWF has advised Keywords Studios on its $27 million acquisition of Sperasoft Inc and Sperasoft Studio LLC, a strategic purchase that will enable the global games provider to continue its growth plans.

Sidley is advising TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P. in connection with the acquisition of Bosal ACPS, a leading manufacturer of tow bars for original equipment manufacturers and suppliers and for the aftermarket in Europe. It is anticipated that the transaction will close at the end of Q1 2018.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Faurecia, one of the world's largest automotive equipment suppliers, on the 100 percent acquisition of Switzerland-based Hug Engineering AG.

Ashurst advised Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) comprehensively on the acquisition and financing of a participation in Sjølund A/S (Sjølund), a leading manufacturer of aluminium and steel components. As part of a management buy-out, DBAG ECF, a fund managed by DBAG, will acquire around 51 percent of the shares in Sjølund from previous sole owner and CEO Søren Ravn Jensen. The remaining 49 percent of the shares will in future be held by Søren Ravn Jensen, who will continue to serve as CEO of the company, and other members of the management.

The Gide team advised MEDI-system (a company from the Orpea Group) on the acquisition of the "Angel Care" Elderly Care Facility in Wroclaw, from Angel Poland Group, finalised on 2 January 2018, and on the acquisition of the Ostoya Care Facility in Stare Babice near Warsaw from Allenort Capital Fund, finalised in December 2017.