Through its take-over of BHF Kleinwort Benson Group S.A. Oddo & Cie, Paris, (“Oddo”) is indirectly acquiring BHF-Bank, a leading German private bank with international branches in Luxembourg, Switzerland, the UAE, Egypt and Vietnam.

Oddo is an independent Franco-German financial services group active in investment banking and capital management. 60 per percent of Oddo Group’s capital are held by the Oddo family and over 30 percent by Oddo employees.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) successfully advised Cerberus Capital Management L.P. (“Cerberus”) on the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Renovalia Energy, S.A. for €1 billion (enterprise value). This represents one of the largest ever completed deals in the Spanish renewables sector to date.

DLA Piper advised CustomInk, a Fairfax, Virginia-based custom T-shirt company, in its acquisition of Represent, a Los Angeles-based technology company. The acquisition will allow CustomInk users to create and sell custom merchandise with no upfront costs.

The Represent platform was developed in 2014 to help users develop custom merchandise using a design tool, and then sell the products using a crowd-funding model. All products are printed to order and delivered directly to customers from the company's manufacturing facility.

Roschier represents Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. in its public tender offer for Biotie Therapies Corporation. The tender offer will be made in both Finland and the United States and include all the issued and outstanding shares, American Depositary Shares and other equity instruments issued by Biotie that are not owned by Biotie or any of its subsidiaries.

NautaDutilh assisted BrantNew BVBA with the acquisition of the shoes and footware company Brantano from Macintosh Retail Group. BrantNew is a Belgian private venture of R&S Retail Group's owner Rens van de Schoor, supported by Dieter Penninckx (FNG Group, listed on the Brussels Free Market) and the family holding of Torfs.

Vilmorin & Cie announced the take-over of Genica Research Corporation, a company specialized in research, breeding, production and distribution of hybrid vegetable seeds headquartered in Dixon, California (United States).

Castrén & Snellman acted as the legal advisor to Gasum Oy in a transaction whereby Gasum and the private shareholders of Biovakka Oy signed an agreement on the transfer of the full shareholding of Biovakka to Gasum on 1 February 2016. The transaction is expected to be completed during February 2016. Biovakka Suomi Oy has been an associated company of Gasum since 2009 (with a 20% shareholding). The acquisition is part of Gasum’s strategy deployment and growth in the biogas business.

Davis Polk is advising Fujian Thai Hot Investment Co. Ltd (“Thai Hot Investment”) in connection with its acquisition of Dah Sing Life Assurance Company Limited (“Dah Sing Life”), Dah Sing Insurance Services Limited (“Dah Sing Insurance Services”) and Macau Life Insurance Company Limited (“Macau Life”) from Dah Sing Financial Holdings Limited (“DSFH”) and Macau Insurance Company (“MIC”), a non-wholly owned subsidiary of DSFH.

Charles Russell Speechlys has acted for award winning organic drinks producer Rebel Kitchen on its acquisition of a controlling interest in Better Fresh Limited, a producer of coconut water and yogurt products under the brand name “Unoco”.

Rebel Kitchen was founded by Tamara Arbib and Ben Arbib and has developed a leading brand, producing its organic diary free coconut ‘Mylk’ drinks. Its products have a global reach, selling across Europe, the US, Australia, China and UAE.

The founders of Better Fresh Ltd are to continue in the business.

Slaughter and May advised BRF S.A. (BRF), the Brazil-based public listed food company, in relation to its acquisition, through its UK subsidiary BRF Invicta Limited, of Universal Meats (UK) Limited and its subsidiaries (Universal Meats).