Eversheds has advised Daisy Intermediate Holdings Limited (Daisy) on its £165.3m cash offer to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Alternative Networks PLC (Alternative Networks).
Sidley represented Xiwang Foodstuffs Co., Ltd. (Xiwang Food), a listed company on Shenzhen Stock Exchange, in its recent US$730 million (approximately RMB4.8 billion) acquisition of Canada’s Kerr Investment Holding Corp.
Based in China’s Shandong Province, Xiwang Food is one of the leading players in the healthcare products industry in China. Xiwang Group Company Limited is one of the China's top 500 enterprises. Kerr Investment Holding Corp., based in Oakville, Canada, is a company involved in the development and distribution of nutrition supplement products.
Norwegian Visma Group has made yet another acquisition in Denmark through its takeover of the Danish IT company, Dinero, a Denmark-based provider of intuitive accounting programs and software solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises. LETT has assisted Visma in connection with the acquisition.
Davis Polk is advising the buyer group consisting of Mr. Liang Zhang, Ms. Xiuqing Meng and Beams Power Investment Limited in connection with the going-private transaction of Synutra International for cash consideration of $6.05 per share of common stock. Mr. Liang Zhang is the chairman and chief executive officer of Synutra. Ms. Xiuqing Meng, spouse of Mr. Zhang, is the sole shareholder of Beams Power Investment Limited, which currently owns approximately 63.5% of Synutra’s outstanding shares of common stock.
Vienna, 18 November 2016 – Wolf Theiss is advising Harvia Group Oy in its acquisition of sentiotec, the sauna and wellness division of abatec Group. The signing took place on 4 November 2016.
As part of the sales process, Wolf Theiss is advising Harvia Group Oy in questions of Austrian, Romanian and Serbian law, particularly as it applies to legal due diligence, the purchase agreement and various other contracts that guarantee close collaboration between sentiotec and abatec Group in the future.
Noerr has advised the Gegenbauer Group on the acquisition of a majority stake in RGM Holding from Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH. The takeover, which spanned five European jurisdictions, was coordinated and supported by a Noerr team led by partners Dr Tibor Fedke and Professor Christian Pleister.
Delphi has been legal advisor to NIBE Industrier AB (publ) in connection with its acquisition of 65% of the shares in FPI Fireplace Products International Ltd. The remaining 35% of the shares are covered by options and can be acquired in different installments until 2022.
FPI’s business includes product development, production and marketing with headquarter in Vancouver, Canada, and with subsidiaries in the USA and Australia. The company has approximately 380 employees and a turnover of 90 MCAD (about 600 MSEK). FPI will be included in the business area NIBE Stoves.
Herbert Smith Freehills is advising Chinese aerospace and mining firm Shaanxi Ligeance Mineral Resources ("SLMR") on its £326 million proposed acquisition of aerospace parts manufacturer Gardner Aerospace ("Gardner"), which was announced on 16 November 2016.
SLMR is a company headquartered in China and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It is the ultimate parent company of a group whose current main activity is mineral exploration and production, but whose interests include a growing aerospace machining and component manufacture division.
DLA Piper has advised Doctena S.A. on the strategic acquisition of all shares of Doxter GmbH, a booking platform for medical treatment for an undisclosed amount. In addition to the founders of Doxter GmbH, the sellers were the former shareholders EuroServe Media GmbH (venture capital arm of the Müller Medien Group) and Chrysos GmbH.
We acted as Finnish counsel for AAF Europe in its acquisition of Dinair Group AB and its related subsidiaries in Finland and other jurisdictions.
The acquisition of Dinair Group enables AAF International and Dinair jointly to develop the Nordic market by delivering innovative high performance filtration products.