Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Bingo Industries Limited on its strategic acquisitions of the National Recycling Group (NRG) and Patons Lane Recycling Centre and Landfill (Patons Lane).

To fund the acquisitions, Bingo launched a A$120 million underwritten pro-rata accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer. The acquisition price for NRG was A$37.7 million plus A$13.4 million for two freehold properties and the acquisition price for Patons Lane was A$90 million structured over three payments between December 2017 and July 2019.

Schulte is representing Marlin Equity Partners in its acquisition of Bazaarvoice Inc., a provider of consumer-generated content, advertising and personalization solutions. Helping brands and retailers find and reach consumers, each month in the Bazaarvoice network more than one-half billion consumers view and share authentic consumer-generated content across 5,000 brand and retail websites. Under the terms of the agreement, Marlin will acquire each share of outstanding common stock of Bazaarvoice in exchange for $5.50 in cash for a total value of approximately $521 million.

A team led by Munich-based M&A partner Boris Dürr advised Celenus SE, a subsidiary of publicly listed Orpea S.A., on the acquisition of a majority stake in Inoges group. The company's founder Wolfgang K. Hoever will stay on after Orpea's entry as a new majority shareholder and continue to advance the company’s expansion.
 

Addleshaw Goddard's Corporate team has advised Speedy, the UK's leading tools, equipment and plant hire services company, operating across the construction, infrastructure and industrial markets, on its acquisitions of the entire issued share capital of powered access specialists Prolift Access Limited and Platform Sales & Hire Limited.

CMS has advised MAXIMA GRUPE UAB, owner of the Maxima network of grocery stores in, among others, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and a network of Aldik supermarkets in Poland, on the tender offer for the sale of 100% shares in Emperia Holding S.A., an owner of the leading Stokrotka supermarket chain in Poland.

On 14 November 2017, advised by King & Wood Mallesons (“KWM”), Hisense Electric Co., Ltd. ("Hisense Electric"), a publicly listed subsidiary of Hisense Group, signed a share purchase agreement with Toshiba Corporation ("Toshiba") to acquire 95% stock shares of Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation ("TVS").

With a team led by Dr. Vinzenz Bödeker and Christian Staps, both based in Frankfurt, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Finnish Pyroll Group on the acquisition of Stora Enso Baienfurt GmbH, a cutting center for the paper industry.
 
With the acquisition of Stora Enso Baienfurt, Pyroll intends to further expand its activities on the German market.
 
Pyroll Group is a leading Nordic family-owned paper, board, and plastics processing company. Pyroll was founded in 1973, employs some 500 people, and generates revenue of about EUR 100 million.

Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) on its investment in BFT Mastclimbing (BFT).  Equistone has acquired a majority stake in BFT, investing alongside the founder, Robin Head, and management. The financial terms of the transaction are confidential.

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Leighton Buzzard, BFT is the UK's largest provider of mast climbing work platforms to the UK construction industry, with a rental fleet of over 650 mast climbing machines and employing over 70 people.

Penta Berlin acquired the Berlin-based datacenter from DB Systel GmbH, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn group.

Global law firm Dentons advised Penta-Infra Datacenter Holding B.V. on the acquisition of DB Systel Datacenters in Berlin. Bennbrooke and Penta participated in the competitive auction sponsored by Deutsche Bahn and were selected as the winners. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The transaction will close on January 1, 2018.

Hellman & Friedman and GIC completed their €1.8 billion acquisition of Allfunds Bank, S.A., a leading global financial solutions company, from Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Santander Group, General Atlantic and Warburg Pincus. Allfunds offers integrated technology based solutions to asset managers and distributors of mutual funds supporting over 530 institutional clients from 38 different countries and over €265 billion of assets under administration. Paul, Weiss represented GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.