DLA Piper has advised H.I.G. Europe (H.I.G.), the European arm of global private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, on the acquisition of Adelie Foods.

Adelie is the UK's leading Food-to-Go business and serves a number of well-known food retailers such as Sainsbury's and Boots as well as several of the UK's largest coffee shop chains. It was previously owned by India Hospitality Corporation (IHC), led by entrepreneurs Ravi Deol and Sandeep Vyas who will maintain a minority equity holding.

A Squire Patton Boggs cross-office team, led by Cleveland partner and head of the firm’s Chemicals Practice Carolyn Buller and San Francisco senior attorney Laura Kacenjar, advised plastic compounds and chemical maker A. Schulman Inc. in its acquisition of private equity-backed Citadel Plastics Holdings Inc. This is the second deal the firm has done recently for the company as it continues to expand and diversify its US portfolio into the high-value specialty plastics market.

Savills plc is acquiring SEB Asset Management AG (SEBAM) after a bidding process structured by investment bank Lazard. SEBAM is one of Germany’s leading real estate asset managers and belongs to the Swedish SEB Group. Going forward, SEBAM’s activities will be combined with the Savills Group’s existing asset management business, Cordea Savills. The Cordea Savills Group currently has assets under management totalling EUR 7 billion. Added together with SEBAM the figure will rise to almost EUR 15 billion in Europe, plus around EUR 2 billion in Asia.

Ashurst has acted for the consortium of KKR, Varde Partners and Deutsche Bank in the A$8.2 billion acquisition of GE Capital Finance Australasia Pty Ltd's Australian and New Zealand consumer lending business, one of the largest private equity transactions ever in Australia and New Zealand.

GE's consumer lending business has more than three million customers and offers a range of consumer financial products including sales finance, credit cards, personal loans and consumer credit insurance.

Acquisition of 328 Support Services sees US-based aerospace company expand significantly into the UK and Germany

City law firm, RPC, has advised new client Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the US-based aerospace company, on the English law components of its acquisition of 328 Support Services (328) and its affiliated entities.

The RPC team, led by Partner Anthony Shatz and including Associate Paul Jenkins, advised on the corporate aspects of this cross-border transaction.

DLA Piper has advised Keolis Downer on its agreement to acquire Australian Transit Enterprises (ATE) for AU$163 million.

ATE is one of Australia's largest route, school and charter bus businesses operating a fleet of more than 900 buses in South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland.

The acquisition will further strengthen the Keolis Downer public transport network which is already established in Victoria through Yarra Trams and in Queensland through the Gold Coast Light Rail.

DLA Piper represented private equity firm LLR Partner in the acquisition of a major stake in Agility Recovery, a national leader in disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Agility, a former division of General Electric, is a premier provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions in North America. Agility provides robust and easy-to-implement recovery solutions for an affordable monthly membership fee, including access to power generators, office space, communications and computer systems.

Setterwalls advised the Danish IT-company Conscia in the acquisition of Netsafe International AB, a leading consultancy company in Sweden for networking, security and data center technology, also certified as a Cisco Gold Partner.

Setterwalls' team consisted of Håkan Fohlin (responsible partner), Carl Friberg (project manager), Henrik Kjellander (Employment & Labour Law), Karl-Johan Nörklit och Sara Fjell (Tax).

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Japanese telecommunications and internet company SoftBank Corp. on its acquisition of a further share of interest in Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company which designs, manufactures and sells autonomous humanoid robots.

Swedbank Franchise AB has on 12 March 2015 agreed with DNB Bank ASA that Swedbank Franchise’s previous acquisition of Svensk Fastighetsförmedling AB, which at the request of the Swedish Competition Authority was prohibited by Stockholm District Court on 17 December 2014, shall be reversed.