Jones Day is advising Astellas Pharma Inc., a Japanese leader in the pharma industry, in its €800 million (US$852 million) acquisition of Ogeda SA, a privately owned Belgian drug discovery company.

In addition to M&A representation, Jones Day is providing antitrust and intellectual property advice regarding this transaction.

For additional information about this matter, please contact: Thomas De Muynck
Client(s): Astellas Pharma Inc.
Practice(s): M&A, Antitrust & Competition Law, Intellectual Property, Tax

Simmons & Simmons in association with TMI Associates has advised Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (SRI) on its £215m acquisition of leading car tyre distributor and retailer Micheldever from private equity fund Graphite Capital Management.

The acquisition represents a significant strategic milestone for SRI as it plans to expand its business in Europe and North America as part of its long-term “VISION 2020”.

We advised Eurofins Scientific, the global leader in food and environment testing, in its acquisition of Ahma ympäristö Oy, the second-largest environment testing laboratory in Finland. The company employs 104 staff at its three main sites in Finland. The company generated revenues in excess of EUR 7m in 2016. 

Shearman & Sterling is advising Capital Square Partners, a Singapore-based private equity fund manager with a focus on the technology, media & telecommunications, healthcare, business services and consumer sectors across Southeast Asia and India, on its acquisition of ESM Holdings Limited, the holding company of the Aegis group (Aegis), from AGC Holdings Limited, a wholly owned portfolio company of Essar Global Fund (Essar). The closing of the transaction is conditional on customary regulatory approvals.
 

Gregoire Andrieux, Pierre-Arnoux Mayoly, Nicolas de Courtivron, Shirin Deyhim, Tess Souquet Basiege, Lionel Lesur, Antoine Vergnat and Come de Saint-Vincent were the members of the Paris office team that advised French risk management company Socotec and its shareholders on the corporate, competition and tax aspects of acquiring UK environmental testing company ESG group.

Roschier represented A-Katsastus Group as it acquired the majority of Finland's largest car damage repair chain InCar Invest Oy, and merged the operations of InCar, Auto Vatén Oy and Autopeltikorjaamo Harry Lampinen Oy to form a nationwide repair chain. Read more here.

The Roschier core advising team included Jan-Anders Wik, Antti-Jussi Partanen and Tuomas Koskinen.

Clifford Chance is advising TBG AG ("TBG"), a Switzerland-based private holding company, on its acquisition of Telvent DTN, LLC ("DTN"), a US-based data-software business, from French power-equipment supplier Schneider Electric SE in a transaction valued at US$900 million. The deal was announced on April 3, 2017.

DTN is a leader in providing information services, supply chain connectivity tools and decision support solutions in agricultural, energy and environmental industries.

White & Case LLP has advised FSN Capital IV on its acquisition of Active Brands AS, a leading Nordic supplier of premium sporting goods brands, from Holta Invest.

"White & Case has been increasingly active in Norway in recent years and this is yet another example of a successful Norwegian transaction on which we've advised," said Stockholm-based White & Case partner Carl Hugo Parment. White & Case advised on the acquisition's financing as well as international due diligence in Sweden, the US, Finland and China.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP advised Bain Capital Private Equity on its acquisition of leading Italian tyre wholesaler Fintyre.  Bain acquired the stake through its Europe IV Fund from London private equity firm BlueGem Capital Partners. The transaction, the value of which was not disclosed, closed on March 31, 2017. Read more about the transaction here.