Slaughter and May advised LGC Science Holdings Limited (LGC) on the financing of its acquisition of Biosearch Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the genomics and life sciences industries.

The acquisition was funded principally through a $114,000,000 banking facility made available by a syndicate of lenders.

LGC is an international life sciences measurement and testing company and is the designated UK National Measurement Institute for chemical and bioanalytical measurement.

Greenberg Traurig LLP advised on US law.

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Allen & Overy LLP advises Lei Shing Hong Limited, Hong Kong, on the acquisition of the East German Mercedes sales network from Daimler Group.

Clifford Chance advised GEKA Group on the acquisition of insolvent OEKA Oehlhorn GmbH, Bamberg (Germany), from insolvency administrator Joachim Exner.

GEKA intends to take on the Bamberg site with all employees. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

GEKA is planning to integrate OEKA's business units OEKA Beauty and OEKA Med with its own business units GEKA Beauty and GEKA Healthcare, while OEKA Tech shall be transferred to the newly established GEKA company "OEKA Tech Automotive GmbH".

Krause Holdings - a holding company with diversified investments owned by Kyle J. Krause – has invested in the acquisition, by Campari, of 100% of the share capital of Enrico Serafino – a winery specialised in growing grapes and producing still and sparkling wine - for EUR 6.1 million. The business sold includes the Enrico Serafino brand as well as the vineyards, winemaking and production facilities, stock and real estate assets.

NCTM assisted Mobyt, a leading Italian company in the mobile marketing and services sector and also operating in the web advertising sector, listed on the AIM Italia market, in the stipulation of an agreement for the acquisition of a share equal to 85% of DigiTel MobileTM S.r.l., an operator in the development, provision and marketing of communications services, particularly professional SMS messaging services.

The acquisition falls within the scope of Mobyt's strategy to consolidate its presence in the small-business segment in Italy in the mobile marketing market.

Redknee Solutions Inc. (“Redknee”), a leading provider of real-time monetization and subscriber management software, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Orga Systems for a total cash consideration of €38m from the insolvency administrator. Orga Systems is a leading software vendor for convergent charging and billing in the telecommunications, utilities and automotive markets.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Shanghai-listed Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. (JCET) as international counsel on its proposed S$1 billion takeover offer of SGX-listed semiconductor company STATS ChipPAC Ltd, one of the largest M&A deals in Singapore so far this year.

Semiconductor producer JCET formed a consortium with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund to acquire STATS ChipPAC.

Clifford Chance announces that it has advised Cinven on its acquisition of pan European laboratories business, synlab from BC Partners for approximately EUR1.2bn.

NCTM Studio Legale assisted Huntsman, a US group listed on the New York Stock Exchange operating in the chemical industry in 30 countries with a turnover of approximately USD 13 billion in 2014, in the acquisition of the Italian company Tecnoelastomeri Srl.

NCTM Studio Legale assisted Huntsman with a team coordinated by the partner Giuliano Lanzavecchia and consisting of Alice Bucolo (senior associate) for the corporate aspects and of Roberta Russo (salary partner) and Chiara Zecchetto (associate) for the employment law aspects.

One of Denmark’s leading coffee businesses, Merrild Kaffe, which is owned by the Dutch D.E. Masterblenders group, has been purchased by Lavazza, which is Italy’s leading coffee producer.

Last spring, D.E. Masterblenders entered into an agreement with the Mondelez coffee division about merging under the name of Jacobs Douwe Egberts. As a condition for the approval of the merger, the European Commission required that both businesses divested some of their brands. For D.E. Masterblenders, this meant Merrild Kaffe.