Dentons advised Liberty Global, the world's largest international TV and broadband company, on the acquisition of Multimedia Polska, Poland’s number three cable operator with 1.6 million homes passed, mainly through its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable network, serving 832,000 unique customers who subscribed to 1.4 million subscription services consisting of 643,000 video, 493,000 broadband and 254,000 telephony RGUs. Liberty Global made the acquisition through its Polish unit UPC Polska.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised China Overseas Grand Oceans Group Limited (COGO) on its acquisition of a property portfolio in China from China Overseas Land & Investment Limited (COLI) for a cash consideration of RMB3,516 million.

COGO has agreed to acquire the property portfolio, which has a total gross floor area of approx. 9.5 million square metres. It is located in emerging third tier cities in China including Yangzhou, Huizhou, Huangshan, Weifang, Zibo, Jiujiang and Shantou. The net assets involved amount to about HK$3,248 million.

Gleiss Lutz is advising U.S. based Celanese Corporation on its acquisition of the SO.F.TER Group, a specialty chemicals firm based in Forli, Italy, with subsidiaries in Brazil, Mexico and the U.S. Closing is subject to regulatory approvals and expected to be completed by the end of this year. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

DLA Piper advised Luona Oy, a subsidiary of Barona Group Company, on the acquisition of the share capital of Mawell Care Oy from Mawell Oy.

This acquisition is part of Luona's strategic growth plan to expand into new geographies, accessing new customer markets. The seller, Mawell Oy, is a portfolio company of CapMan, the leading Nordic private equity sponsor.

Luona belongs to Barona Group and provides social and health care services, including home care services and residential solutions, to private households, municipalities and public sector.

On October 14, 2016, Man Group plc (Man Group), London (London Stock Exchange: EMG.L), announced that it signed an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Aalto Invest Holding AG (Aalto), Switzerland. Aalto is a US and Europe-based real estate asset focused investment manager with USD 1.7 bn of funds under management as of September 30, 2016. The acquisition is expected to be completed in January 2017, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.

Gide has advised the Chinese heavyweight of packaging, ORG Packaging Co., Ltd., on its agreement with AJAXXL Capital SA, held by the Limido family, concerning the acquisition of a majority stake in the capital of Auxerre football club in France, AJA Football. ORG Packaging Co., Ltd. also received counsel from King & Wood Mallesons in the reorganisation of relationships between AJA Football and the AJA association. AJAXXL Capital SA was advised by Jean-Luc Michaud.

Shearman & Sterling is advising a consortium of Everstone Capital Partners III, L.P. and Sunrise BPO Pte. Ltd., on the acquisition of C3/CustomerContactChannels Holdings Inc. The transaction is expected to close prior to the end of 2016, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

International law firm Clifford Chance has advised a consortium of funds:  Cinven; Permira; and Mid Europa, on buying the Allegro Group (‘Allegro’), the largest online marketplace and non-food shopping destination in Poland, from South African-based global internet and entertainment group Naspers for $3.253bn.  This is the second large club deal that consortium advised by Clifford Chance Private Equity has successfully executed this week.

Firm's Corporate team handles European deal for acquisitive US-based Park Place Technologies

City-headquartered law firm RPC has advised multinational Park Place Technologies on the complex acquisition of London-based Com-Com, a leading, independent, alternative supplier to businesses and institutions of IT storage, server and networking support, hardware supply and other IT services.

Addleshaw Goddard's Leeds Corporate team has advised the WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff (WSP|PB) one of the world's leading engineering professional services firms on its £75m acquisition of Mouchel Limited, the engineering consulting services arm of the wider Kier Group.

The acquisition will further strengthen WSP|PB's presence in the public infrastructure space and compliment the businesses existing portfolio of services.