Bird & Bird advises Precision on the acquisition of SimplicityBio

International law firm Bird & Bird has advised long term client Precision for Medicine, part of the Precision Medicine Group, on its acquisition of Swiss company SimplicityBio from its founders.

Delachaux Group, world market leader in rail infrastructure technology, is taking over the Upper Austrian Frauscher Sensortechnik from the private equity fund Greenbriar. The Schärding-based group is a technology leader in the field of train detection and simplifies railway operators’ access to information required for the smooth operation of their infrastructure.

Juniper Networks Inc.—a multinational networking hardware corporation—announced March 4 a plan to acquire Mist Systems Inc. for $405 million. 
 
The S&C team on the transaction includes Alison Ressler (who was recently named to The Deal's “Women in M&A: The Powerhouse 20”), Matthew Barnett (Corporate), Matthew Friestedt (Executive Compensation), Davis Wang (Tax), Renata Hesse and Eric Queen (U.S. Antitrust), and Michael Rosenthal (Global Competition).
 

With a team led by Boris Dürr and Dr. Oliver Treptow, both from the firm’s Munich office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised private equity investor Auctus and its portfolio company GS Star Hotels on the acquisition of a majority interest in Rilano Holding GmbH. With this transaction, GS Star group is consistently implementing its expansion concept and expanding its offering to include additional hotels in Germany and Austria. Following the acquisition, GS Star group will grow to a scheduled sales volume for 2019 of over EUR 100 million.

Rubix Group has reached an agreement to acquire Schafer Technik Group, consisting of Schafer Technik GmbH (Germany), Schafer Technik GmbH (Austria) and C. Pluss & Co. AG (Switzerland). Taylor Wessing acted as lead counsel of Rubix in this transaction.

With a turnover of more than 2.2 billion Euro in 2018, Rubix Group is Europe's largest supplier of industrial maintenance, repair and overhaul products and services. Rubix was created from the merger of IPH with Brammer in 2017, following the acquisition of Brammer and IPH by Advent International.

Travers Smith LLP has advised The Access Group, the UK's leading provider of software to growing mid-market customers, on its acquisition of Volcanic.

Supporting over 600 customers across three continents, Volcanic is the leading provider of SaaS based website and marketing technology platforms to the recruitment sector.

A multi-disciplinary team from Charles Russell Speechlys has advised the shareholders of Morgan Motor Company Limited on the sale of a majority stake in the company to Investindustrial, a leading European investment group. The Morgan family shareholders will continue to act as stewards of the brand and will retain a minority shareholding.

Loyens & Loeff advised Synova, also known as Synova Power, a Netherlands-based company, developer of waste and biomass gasification technology and projects, on the acquisition of Dahlman Renewable Technology B.V., a Netherlands-based company and renewable division of Dahlman Industrial Group B.V., a Netherlands-based company that designs, develops, engineers, and manufactures industrial filtration systems and equipment.