We advised PCI Pharma Services in connection with its acquisition of pharmaceutical and healthcare contract packaging services provider, Millmount Healthcare.  PCI is an integrated full service provider and a trusted partner to leading companies in the global healthcare industry, supporting medicines destined to over 100 countries around the world.  With the addition of Millmount Healthcare, PCI will now feature 18 facilities across North America and Europe, employing over 3,200 highly trained associates.

DLA Piper has advised an affiliate of Sun European Partners on the leveraged buyout acquisition of the C&K Group from the American private equity fund Littlejohn&Co. Partly funded through a US$130 million multicurrency unitranche bond issuance arranged and subscribed by Tikehau Capital, the business was acquired for an undisclosed value.

DLA Piper has advised Service-Telecom, a leader in the telecoms tower infrastructure market in the Moscow Region, on the acquisition of a 100% stake in Link Development, the leading telecoms tower company in Northwest Russia.

As the first strategic acquisition of a tower company in the Russian telecom market, this transaction is a very important step in implementing Service-Telecom's strategy to become a leader on a national scale in the Russian telecom market.

Gilbert + Tobin today announced it has been advising Beach Energy Limited on its successful $1.585 billion bid to acquire Lattice Energy Limited, the conventional upstream oil and gas business of Origin Energy Limited.

The acquisition will see Beach Energy acquire all of the issued shares in Lattice Energy and become a leading ASX-listed oil and gas company. The acquisition is subject to approval by the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office and New Zealand Minister of Energy and Resources.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Safestore Holdings plc on its £56 million acquisition of Stork Self Storage (Holdings) Limited (trading as Alligator Self Storage) from a company controlled by funds managed or advised by York Capital Management.

Davis Polk is advising Nets A/S on certain U.S. aspects of an approximate $5.3 billion takeover offer from Hellman & Friedman. The offer represents a 27% premium to the Nets’ share price on June 30, 2017, the day before Nets confirmed it had received takeover approaches.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised .private equity funds managed by Blackstone (‘Blackstone’) on the acquisition of Schenck Process (‘Schenck’), a global market leader in measuring and process technology from IK Investment Partners, a leading Pan-European private equity firm. 
 

DLA Piper has advised the fund Perusa Partners Fund 2, L.P., advised by the independent Perusa GmbH, on the majority acquisition of 51 percent in MBN GmbH (MBN) in Friedberg, Bavaria. The parties have agreed to keep the purchase price confidential.

Davis Polk is advising Genuine Parts Company on its approximately $2 billion acquisition of Alliance Automotive Group from private equity funds managed by Blackstone and AAG’s co-founders. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Genuine Parts Company distributes automotive replacement parts in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australasia. Headquartered in London, AAG is the second-largest parts distribution platform in Europe, with a focus on light vehicle and commercial vehicle replacement parts.

O’Melveny represented HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, in its agreement to acquire Mercury Security, an OEM supplier of controllers for physical access control. Mercury’s intelligent controllers, interface boards, and software perfectly complement HID’s industry-leading readers, smart cards, and mobile IDs for opening doors. The acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, is expected to close by Q4 2017.