Simmons & Simmons is advising new listed client, Sanne Group plc, the specialist provider of outsourced corporate, fund and private client administration, reporting and fiduciary services, in connection with its proposed acquisition ("Acquisition") of IFS, a leading Mauritian-based provider of fund and corporate administration services, for a total consideration of approximately US$127.3 million (£101.9 million).

White & Case LLP has advised private equity investor Ardian on the acquisition of a majority stake in SCHWIND eye-tech-solutions GmbH & Co. KG.

The details of the transaction, which is subject to approval by the relevant merger control authorities, have not been disclosed by the parties.

Heptares Therapeutics Ltd. (Heptares), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sosei Group Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange: TYO) based in Hertfordshire, UK, announced that it signed an agreement to acquire 100% in G7 Therapeutics AG, Switzerland (G7). G7 is a privately held biopharmaceutical company based in Schlieren, Switzerland. G7 has developed proprietary approaches for stabilizing G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) called SaBRE and CHESS, which are different and highly complementary to the StaR® platform developed by Heptares.

King & Wood Mallesons advised Apex Technology Co., Ltd. (Apex, SZSE: 002180) on successfully acquiring Lexmark International, Inc. (Lexmark), a world renowned printing and software company. Apex led a group of investors including PAG Asia Capital and Legend Capital to acquire 100% of Lexmark at an enterprise value of approximately US$4 billion (about 26 billion RMB). To date, this has been the biggest outbound transaction in the print industry, and is yet another example of China’s successful track record in offshore acquisitions.

We acted as legal advisor for Betset Group Ltd. and Betset Oy as the companies acquired Mikkelin Betoni Group. The acquisition agreement was signed on 21.11.2016 and concerns entire share capital of the group.

With the acquisition Betset-Group, formed by Betset Group Oy and Betset Oy, is one of Finland's largest concrete ready components and ready-mix concrete manufacturers. The aggregate annual turnover in Finland is about 80 MEUR and companies employ about 485 people.

The transaction is one of the most significant industry arrangements during the last ten years.

PARIS (30 November 2016) – International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented TUI AG, a multinational tourism and travel company, in its purchase of  France- and Greece-based tour-operating business units (Transat France and Tourgreece) from Transat A.T. Inc. for an enterprise value of €54.5 million.

The transaction was subject to a regulatory approval from European anti-trust authorities which was granted on 21 October.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is advising two clients on major recently announced M&A transactions.

The Firm is advising EQT VI Limited on its sale of a, a leading global provider of business automation software, to CA Technologies Inc. The transaction, which was announced on 1 December 2016, values Automic at €600 million. Further information is available here.

Dentons advised Mirova Core Infrastructure Fund on the acquisition of an 85 percent equity interest in Aton per il Progetto from Siram, a subsidiary of Veolia Environment. Dentons assisted the acquirer in all corporate, financial and regulatory aspects of the transaction. The deal was closed on 24 November 2016.

Mirova Core Infrastructure Fund is a subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management, and is dedicated to responsible investment.

Paul, Weiss represented Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Hoffmaster Group, a leading North American manufacturer of disposable tableware, from Metalmark Capital Holdings LLC. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Vinge has advised Vostok New Ventures Ltd (”Vostok”) in connection with an investment in the Paris based ride-sharing service Comuto SA (”BlaBlaCar”). The acquisition was made by an issue in kind where the purchase price for the shares in BlaBlaCar consisted of 4,154,495 newly issued shares in Vostok. A prospectus for listing of the Swedish depository receipts representing the issued shares was approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and made public on 23 November, 2016.