Wolf Theiss has advised PORR Bau GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of PORR AG, on the purchase of Bilfinger Infrastructure S.A. Closing is expected by year end subject to antitrust clearance.

The PORR Group is one of Austria’s largest construction companies and a leading participant in the sector throughout Europe. Bilfinger Infrastructure S.A employs around 800 staff and operates in the road and bridge construction, civil engineering and power plant construction sectors. In 2014 PORR generated construction output of around EUR 300m in Poland.

Wolf Theiss and Baker & McKenzie have advised British American Tobacco on their acquisition of the entire tobacco and retail business of TDR from Adris Group for an enterprise value of EUR 550 million.

Stibbe advises Sonepar on the acquisition of the Van Egmond Group. Sonepar is a company with global market leadership in B-to-B distribution of electrical products and related services.

The Van Egmond Group is specialised in the provision of electrical products and services to industrial and electricity professionals and in industrial automation and control services for industrial customers.

A team led by Dr. Peter Christian Schmidt, Partner at the commercial law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's Hamburg office, provided comprehensive legal advice to funds advised by Deutsche Private Equity GmbH (DPE) on the investment in Interschalt maritime systems AG. Retroactively as of December 31, 2014, DPE will take over a majority stake in the provider of maritime software and services for navigation and communication equipment of ships and manufacturer of the Voyage data recorder. The transaction is subject to the approval by the competent antitrust authorities.

Castren & Snellman acted as the legal advisor to Global Tungsten & Powders Corporation (GTP) in its acquisition of Tikomet Oy from Sponsor Capital and Tikomet Oy’s management. The share purchase agreement regarding the transaction was signed on 12 June 2015. The transaction is pending the approval of relevant authorities.

Tikomet is one of the leading producers of hard metal powders that apply the zinc recycling process, which is cost-effective and environmentally safe. In 2014, Tikomet Oy had a turnover of EUR 28.2 million. Today, the company has 38 employees.

Slaughter and May is advising Non-Standard Finance plc (NSF) in connection with its proposed acquisition of Loansathome4u, the home credit division of S&U plc, for cash consideration of £82.5 million. The acquisition is subject to approval by S&U plc's shareholders and customary closing conditions. If completed, the acquisition will be NSF's first acquisition since it listed on the London Stock Exchange in February 2015 with the aim of acquiring and operating one or more non-standard consumer finance businesses.

XingXueKang Investment Partnership has entered into a share purchase agreement with Opcon, the energy and environmental technology group a share purchase agreement concerning the sale of Opcon’s main part of the group’s operations within compressor technology and waste heat recovery. The transaction also includes the newly-formed company, Opcon Compressor Technology AB as well as the subsidiaries Svenska Rotor Maskiner AB, Opcon Energy System AB and 48.9796% of the shares in the jointly owned Chinese company Fuijan Opcon Energy Technology Co. Ltd.

Vinge has advised Specma AB in connection with the acquisition of Hyrdaulikhuset BKH AB. Hydraulikhuset, with its registered office in Gothenburg, sells and develops hydraulics systems. Specma is a subsidiary in the Latour Group.

Vinge’s team consisted of Magnus Pauli, Johanna Björnum Nyström and Daniel Lennartsson.

Vinge has advised Dreamwork in connection with the acquisition of Titan IT from Acando. Dreamwork is one of the leading companies in Sweden within headhunting and expert recruitments and Titan IT is a niche company within IT recruitments.

Kristian Ford has advised Dreamwork and Carl Fahleryd has provided employment law advice.

Vinge and the Finnish law firm Borenius have advised Func Food Group Oy, a portfolio company of the Finnish equity fund Sentica Partners, in connection with the acquisition of People’s Choice AB. People’s Choice markets and distributes Celsius functional beverages as well as the lifestyle clothing brand Freddy in Sweden. As a result of the acquisition, Func Food has thereby increased its current product range, which is currently focused on sports nutrition and super food, to include functional beverages and lifestyle clothing.