Delphi has been the legal advisor to AddLife Development AB, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Addlife AB (publ) listed on OMX Stockholm Mid Cap, in the acquisition of all shares in Biolin Scientific AB ("Biolin"), a subsidiary of the group Biolin Scientific, owned by Ratos.
EQT Mid Market has agreed to acquire Fertin Pharma from the Bagger-Sørensen family. The Bagger-Sørensen family will reinvest part of their proceeds and will following the transaction own 30% of Fertin Pharma.
Bär & Karrer is acting as Swiss legal advisor to EQT and Accura Advokatpartnerselskab as lead counsel. The team includes Christoph Neeracher, Markus Wang, Philippe Seiler and Raphael Nusser.
Simpson Thacher is representing KKR in connection with its acquisition of Calvin Capital from Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Investments. The transaction is expected to complete at the end of January 2017.
Calvin Capital is a leading provider of gas and electricity meters to energy suppliers in the United Kingdom.
The Simpson Thacher team included Alvaro Membrillera, Anaïs Fritz and Aled Knights (Corporate); Sinead O’Shea (Credit); David Vann and Tara Kelly (Antitrust); and Meredith Jones and Joseph Tootle (Tax).
Ince & Co LLP has advised private equity firm Advent International on the acquisition of V.Group, the marine services company, from Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s private equity arm (OMERS). Ince & Co worked alongside Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and provided specialist maritime law advice.
Freshfields has advised leading global private equity firm, Advent International, on its acquisition of a majority ownership interest in V.Group from OMERS Private Equity
Gleiss Lutz advised GoDaddy Inc. on its acquisition of Host Europe Group (HEG) from the private equity firm Cinven. GoDaddy acquires HEG for EUR 1.69 billion, including EUR 605 million paid to the selling shareholders and EUR 1.08 billion assumed net debt. Closing is subject to customary regulatory approvals and expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2017. GoDaddy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Simpson Thacher is representing private equity funds managed by Blackstone in connection with their acquisition of Acetow from Solvay for an enterprise value of around €1 billion.
DLA Piper represented Juniper Networks, Inc., an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, on its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire AppFormix, Inc.
AppFormix was founded in 2013 to deliver service optimization for enterprise cloud operators and application developers via real-time analytics, capacity planning, and orchestration tooling.
The acquisition is expected to strengthen Juniper's strategic position in telecommunications and enterprise cloud architecture build-outs.
The Freshfields team was led by partners Konrad Gröller, Bertram Burtscher, Florian Klimscha and Bruce McCulloch
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised CA Technologies (‘CA’) on its acquisition of Automic, the international leader in business automation software, from EQT, an alternative investments firm. The transaction, valued at approximately €600m net of cash and cash equivalents, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of CA’s fiscal year.
With a team led by Dr. Peter Christian Schmidt, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised funds advised by DPE Deutsche Private Equity GmbH (DPE) on the acquisition of Fischer surface technologies. The company with German plants in Katzenelnbogen and Seelbach, as well as three sites in Liberec, Czech Republic, is a leading manufacturer of chrome-plated plastic parts for the automotive, sanitary, and domestic appliance industries. At over 600 employees, the electroplating and injection molding specialist generates revenues of about EUR 70 million in the current fiscal year.