The founders and existing shareholders of ConVista AG sold significant portions of their shares to private investors. The current management remains unchanged, with Oliver Kewes, Martin Hinz and Thomas Möller on the board of ConVista.
ConVista AG is an internationally operating IT and business consulting company, founded in 1999 in Cologne, Germany. Today it has almost 800 employees in 14 countries across four continents.
Denmark’s largest gas company, HMN Naturgas, has today announced its sale of its trading company, HMN Naturgas A/S, with 215,000 customers to the energy companies SEAS-NVE and Eniig.
In spring, HMN Naturgas I/S decided to sell the commercial part of its business activities as a result of the Danish government’s supply strategy which aims at joining the gas distribution networks and separating the network companies (responsible for the operation and maintenance of the distribution network) and the trading companies (responsible for sales and customer services).
Slaughter and May advised on the Hong Kong aspects of the joint acquisition of the iNova Pharmaceuticals business by Pacific Equity Partners and The Carlyle Group from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. for US$930 million.
iNova markets a diversified portfolio of prescription and OTC medicines and has operations in more than 15 countries worldwide.
Pacific Equity Partners is a leading Australian private equity firm with approximately AUD 3.5 billion in funds currently under management.
Berlin - Global law firm K&L Gates LLP advised VTG Aktiengesellschaft, one of Europe’s leading rail freight and logistics companies, on the purchase of all shares of CIT Rail Holdings (Europe) SAS and its related Nacco Group from CIT Group Inc. The Nacco Group has a fleet of around 14,000 rail freight cars with major markets in France, Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe.
Roschier and Allen & Overy, Paris, represented Inéo, a French company that forms part of the publicly traded Engie group, in the acquisition of icomera AB, one of the world’s leading providers of open Internet connectivity and application platforms for passenger transport and public safety, from Lindeblad Technology AB, Birger Lindeblad, K-Svets Ventures AB, Palmstierna Invest AB and certain management shareholders.
diva-e Digital Value Enterprise GmbH (diva-e) acquired all shares in One Advertising AG and its subsidiaries. The founders and primary shareholders of One Advertising, Andreas Kelnberger and Christian Paavo Spieker, will also participate in diva-e . The acquisition is subject to approval by the antitrust authorities.
Loyens & Loeff advised Helios Investment Partners LLP, a UK-based investment firm, jointly with THE GB FOODS, S.A., a Spain-based manufacturer of meal solutions such as soups, ready dishes and fish, through GBfoods Africa Holdco B.V. on the acquisition of Watanmal Group, a Nigeria-based company that manufactures ready to eat food.
Vaudoise Assurances Holding SA has closed, on 1 July 2017, the acquisition of Berninvest AG and Dr. Meyer Asset Management AG, having both their corporate seat in Bern, from their current shareholders, after having obtained regulatory approval.
VTG Aktiengesellschaft ("VTG"), one of the leading railcar leasing and rail logistics companies in Europe, reached a definitive agreement to acquire CIT Rail Holdings (Europe) SAS and the associated NACCO Group, the fourth largest private rental company of rail freight cars in Europe. The transaction will be financed via a senior loan of up to EUR 500 m and a privately placed hybrid bond of EUR 300 m.