Kirkland & Ellis represented Bain Capital in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Asia Pacific Media Group ("APMG"). APMG is a leading private hospital group in China that provides a range of primary care and specialty services with a portfolio of hospitals and clinics in China and other parts of Southeast Asia. The transaction was announced on March 17, 2016.

The Kirkland team was led by Hong Kong corporate partners Nicholas Norris and Frank Sun and corporate associates Derek Poon and David Dai.

Eurazeo has announced that it has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Glion Institute of Higher Education and Les Roches International School of Hotel Management from Laureate Education. Eurazeo will invest over CHF 220 million based on an enterprise value of approximately CHF 380 million.

Eurazeo is one of Europe's leading investment companies with a diversified portfolio of almost EUR 5 billion.

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has with a team around Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack und Dr. Hans Henning Hoff have advised the british malting group Anglia Maltings (Holdings) Limited, Norfolk (UK) in purchasing all shares in Tivoli Malz GmbH, Hamburg.

The seller is HEMERA Vermögensverwaltungsgesellchaft mbH, Hamburg. Tivoli Malz GmbH has a production capacity of more than 180,000 tonnes per year via its group companies of the GlobalMalt-Group comprising one maltings in Germany and one in Poland.

Stibbe advises private equity firm Avedon Capital Partners on the acquisition of employment agency Olympia.

Olympia was sold by NIBC to Avedon Capital Partners and Olympia franchise holder Dimitri Yocarini.

The European law firm Noerr advised Bremer Kreditbank AG (BKB Bank) on the purchase of Bankhaus Neelmeyer, also based in Bremen. The seller is UniCredit Bank AG. A team led by corporate partner Prof. Dr. Christian Pleister acted for Bremer Kreditbank in the transaction.

A team of Clifford Chance's M&A, Real Estate and Finance lawyers have once again united to advise Wikov Industry a.s., a Czech mechanical engineering company, on the purchase of the Detail CZ group of companies. The successful acquisition of Detail CZ, a producer and international supplier of products for the automotive industry, by Wikov, a company with a long history in the manufacture of gearboxes and precision parts for the global market, is in line with Wikov's growth strategy and follows recent acquisitions across the Czech engineering sector.

Vinge has advised Lifco AB (publ) and its wholly owned subsidiary Sorb Industri AB in connection with its acquisition of the majority of the Norwegian company Cenika AS. Lifco acquires and develops market-leading niche businesses with the potential to deliver sustainable profit growth and robust cash flows. The Group has three business areas: Dental, Demolition & Tools and Systems Solutions. The Lifco Group comprises 133 companies in 28 countries. In 2015 the Group reported EBITA of MSEK 1,186 on sales of around BSEK 7.9, with an EBITA margin of 15.0%.

With a team led by Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at the Hamburg office, the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek legally advised PREMIUM Equity Partners GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, comprehensively on the majority takeover of Neubrandenburg-based WEKA Group. The sale was concluded via the funds managed by PREMIUM Equity. In addition to PREMIUM Equity, Lampe Mezzanine Fund I GIKG, managed by Lampe Capital Finance GmbH, and the fund managed by Parvilla SAS, Paris, also acquired stakes in the company. The sellers are a fund of Hamburger BPE Unternehmensbeteiligungen G.m.b.H.

A cross-border team has advised John Deere, a US listed company (NYSE: DE), world leader in providing innovative and advanced products and services of superior quality dedicated to cultivating, harvesting, transforming, enriching and building upon the land in the acquisition of Monosem, the European market leader in precision planters.

Eversheds has advised Inflexion on the buyout of Global Reach Partners (“GRP”), a leading UK foreign exchange specialist providing payments and hedging services to businesses and private individuals.