Eversheds has advised and completed on the acquisition of Notts County Football Club, the oldest Football League club in the world.
The deal was reached by the international law firm on behalf of Alan Hardy, a local businessman from the Nottingham region, to purchase the UK League Two professional football club from current owner Ray Trew.
DLA Piper has advised Bonnier on the acquisition of Fastighetsnytt Förlags AB.
Fastighetsnytt Förlags AB is Sweden's leading media and conference company within the real estate and construction sector, with powerful brands and services such as Business Arena, Fastighetsnyt and Fastighetsjobb.
Bonnier is a media group working in TV, daily newspapers, business and trade press, magazines, film, books and digital media.
DLA Piper team consisted of Mathias Berggren, Magnus Oskarsson, Emelie Bimer, Sofia Rasmusson, Emil Ödling and Jessica Lorne.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client ICG on its acquisition of the NSL Group from AAC Capital Partners. NSL will form part of the Marston Group, the UK's largest judicial services group, which was acquired by ICG in July 2016.
NSL provides outsourced parking enforcement services to local authorities and is the UK market leader in Civil Parking Enforcement.
Deal signifies Italian operator's entry into UK market
Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised Italian operator Trenitalia on its entry into the UK rail franchising market, through the acquisition of the c2c (city to coast) passenger franchise, currently run by National Express, for £70 million.
c2c operates services between Fenchurch Street, London, and Shoeburyness, Essex, covering 26 stations in east London and south Essex.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised a consortium comprising Cheung Kong Property Holdings Limited, Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited and Power Assets Holdings Limited on its proposed A$7.3bn acquisition of ASX-listed energy company DUET Group.
The acquisition will be executed by way of schemes of arrangement and a trust scheme.
The Australian team was led by projects partner Louis Chiam, M&A partner David Eliakim, M&A senior associate Daniel Natale and projects senior associate Jonathan Mitchell.
Norton Rose Fulbright has advised German financial services group Wustenrot & Wurttembergische AG (W&W) on the acquisition of 75 per cent of the share in Munich-based FinTech company treefin AG. This marks an important step in W&W Group's digital strategy.
Slaughter and May is advising Palamon Capital Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in Happy Socks. Headquartered in Stockholm, Happy Socks is a leading international brand of design socks.
Slaughter and May is working as an integrated team with Gernandt & Danielsson.
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SINGAPORE, January 17, 2017 – In another major transaction in Indonesia, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP advised a joint venture between PT AP Investment and PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk (MedcoEnergi) in connection with its acquisition and related financings of a controlling stake in mining company PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (previously PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara) from, among other vendors, Newmont Mining Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation.
Luxembourg – Luther Luxembourg advised the Altice group in connection with its acquisition of the entire capital of Moroccan company Intelcia Group and its call center subsidiaries in Morocco, France , Cameroon and Senegal.
The deal was cleared by both the Moroccan and French competition authorities.
Luther Luxembourg advised the Altice group from a Luxembourg law perspective in relation to the corporate law and financing aspects of the transaction.
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On January 17, 2017, Givaudan SA (Givaudan), Vernier, Switzerland (SIX: GIVN), announced that it has acquired Activ International (Activ) as part of its 2020 strategy to strengthen capabilities in natural flavour solutions to its customers.
Activ International offers a range of natural and organic flavours, marine extracts, seafood and vegetable based culinary solutions to customers. With headquarters in Bienne (Switzerland), Activ operates from locations in Somerset (New Jersey, USA), Melaka (Malaysia), Mitry-Mory (Paris, France) and Arequipa (Peru).