Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised UK residential healthcare investor Salutem Healthcare Limited on its acquisition of Clearwater Care, a specialist care services business.

Salutem Healthcare acquired Clearwater Care from private equity firm Synova Capital. The deal marks the latest development in the company's expansion, following its acquisition of Pathways Care Group and Modus Care Limited in May this year, on which Stephenson Harwood also advised.

Skadden is representing China-based Bytedance in its acquisition of lip-sync platform Musical.ly.

Gateley Plc, the legal business of law-led professional services group Gateley, has advised CACI Limited, a major provider of information systems and marketing solutions to organisations in both the private and public sectors, with offices in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham, on its acquisition of UK IT services specialist, Spargonet Consulting Limited.

The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE on the acquisition of a 100% stake in aboalarm, a cancellation service for consumer contracts in the internet. ProSiebenSat.1 acquires aboalarm through its majority asset Verivox.

Paul, Weiss represented Aurum Group USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Aurum Holdings Ltd., in its $108 million acquisition of Mayor’s Jewelers, Inc. from Birks Group Inc. Aurum is a UK-based watch and jewelry retailer. Mayor’s is a leading luxury watch and jewelry retailer based in Florida.

The Paul, Weiss team included corporate partner David Lakhdhir and counsel David Carmona; tax partner Brad Okun; real estate partner Mitchell Berg; and employee benefits partner Lawrence Witdorchic and counsel Uri Horowitz.

The corporate team at international commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has advised Caldic (UK) Ltd on the acquisition of Elastomerics Limited, a prominent specialty chemicals distributor based in Macclesfield.

Elastomerics specialises in the distribution of polymers and additives to the surface coatings, plastics and rubber, and adhesives and sealants industries. With strong formulation back-up and technical support, the British chemicals distributor is a great asset to Caldic’s current activities.

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Oakley Capital Private Equity III on the acquisition of Career Partner Group from its shareholder Apollo Education Group Inc. The current management team of Career Partner is investing along-side Oakley into the transaction. The transaction is funded by a unitranche debt facility from BlueBay and equity investment from Oakley. Completion is subject to approval by the Federal Cartel Office, and is anticipated to be no later than December 31, 2017.

MinterEllison has advised China Zhongwang Holdings, a world-leading developer and manufacturer of fabricated aluminium products, on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Silver Yachts.

MinterEllison has advised China Zhongwang Holdings Limited (CZH), a world-leading developer and manufacturer of fabricated aluminium products, on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Silver Yachts Limited (SYL).

SYL is a Cayman Islands holding group of companies specialising in the design and production of aluminium superyachts.

CMS has advised international food service and hospitality company, Delaware North, on the acquisition of Magicgoal Ltd, the owner of quick-service UK concepts Prime Burger, Rotisserie Chicken and Sandwich & Co.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), Europe’s biggest specialised private equity investor firm in the financial services sector, on the acquisition of Hamburg-based StarTec Payment & Service GmbH (StarTec), a leading provider of solutions and services for cashless physical point-of-sale (POS) payment transactions. StarTec’s portfolio comprises high-tech POS terminals for payments by girocard, direct debit and credit cards as well as electronic voucher and loyalty reward systems for customers.