Vinge has advised Lifco AB (publ) and its wholly owned subsidiary Sorb Industri AB in connection with its acquisition of Haglöf Sweden AB, a world leading supplier of professional forest inventory instruments. Lifco acquires and develops market-leading niche businesses with the potential to deliver sustainable profit growth and robust cash flows. The Group has three business areas: Dental, Demolition & Tools and Systems Solutions. The Lifco Group comprises 133 companies in 28 countries.

Eubelius acted as legal counsel to Besix in the acquisition of Heijmans Bouw, Heijmans Infra and Van den Berg. The Eubelius team was led by Frank Hellemans and Philip Hulpiau.

For more information, see: the press release of Besix.

DLA Piper represented ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, in its acquisition of Highwinds, an industry leading content delivery network (CDN) provider, by its portfolio company StackPath.

With the acquisition, StackPath, which is headquartered in Dallas, now has one of the world's largest global network infrastructures and more than 20,000 customers in the growing CDN space. Highwinds' Winter Park, Florida, operation will serve as the core of StackPath's CDN engineering.

Unigestion and Akina have announced their decision to merge their private equity businesses to create a leading specialist in global small and mid-market private equity. With USD 6 billion in assets under management and 54 dedicated professionals located in Geneva, Zurich, London, New York and Singapore, the combined business will trade under the Unigestion name. Completion of the transaction is subject to the customary regulatory approvals.

Since July 2015, Orlaco and Stoneridge have jointly developed the MirrorEye mirror replacement system, which is the industry-leading solution to improve the safety and fuel economy of commercial vehicles.

Houthoff Buruma team included: Jan-Paul van der Hoek , Maurits de Haan , Mark Miedema , Laila Berrich , Margot Trienen , Loes Stevens

CHSH, a leading business law firm in Austria, served as advisor in all Austrian legal aspects of LifeNet Health’s recently concluded acquisition of Krems-based tissue bank AlloTiss. CHSH collaborated with U.S. firm Kaufman & Canoles to facilitate the transaction.

Norwegian Visma Group makes a further acquisition in Denmark by taking over Danish LogBuy, a provider of employee benefits programmes for private and public enterprises. LETT advised Visma in connection with the acquisition.

On 31 January 2017, IT Relation-Frontdata A/S completed the acquisition of Softcom Solution A/S, which is a major IT outsourcing market player in the Greater Copenhagen Area and Zealand.

The acquisition of Softcom Solutions A/S is the first add-on acquisition to the platform created by Adelis Equity Partners in the summer of 2016 by implementing the triple acquisition of IT Relation A/S, Front-data Danmark A/S and DSI-Next A/S.

Hogan Lovells has advised Brookfield Business Partners ("BBP") on its acquisition of an 85% stake in Greenergy Fuels Holdings Limited ("Greenergy"). BBP is the listed vehicle through which Brookfield Asset Management Inc.("Brookfield") owns and operates the business services and industrial operations of its private equity group. Brookfield is a leading global alternative asset manager with over $250 billion of assets under management.

The cross-border Freshfields team comprised international lawyers based in Madrid, London, Frankfurt and Munich and was led by partners Javier Monzón and Heiner Braun. Partner Yorck Jetter and Christoph Gleske led on financing matters and partner Silvia Paternain and counsel Bosco Montejo advised on the tax aspects of the transaction.