Hogan Lovells advised Adobe in the company’s recently announced acquisition of Magento Commerce, a market-leading commerce platform. The deal, valued at $1.68 billion, will enable commerce to be seamlessly integrated into the Adobe Experience Cloud, delivering a single platform that serves both B2B and B2C customers globally.
International law firm CMS has advised Main Market listed UK gaming company The Rank Group Plc (‘Rank’) on the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of QSB Gaming Limited, owner of YoBingo.es, a leading Spanish digital bingo business for up to €52 million.
Ropes & Gray has advised Epiris, the UK-based private equity group on its acquisition of The Club Company, the UK’s leading country club operator, from a company affiliated with Lone Star Funds. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Willkie represents IK Investment Partners in connection with its acquisition of Domia Group, owner of Acadomia and Shiva.
On May 18, Willkie client IK Investment Partners announced that it has acquired, through its IK Small Cap I Fund, Domia Group, the owner of Acadomia (the number one French player in the private tutoring market) and French home cleaning provider Shiva, from Metric Capital Partners. The acquisition was made alongside founders Maxime Aiach, Philippe Coléon and José Dinis.
Squire Patton Boggs has advised Raksha Energy Holdings Limited on its successful offer to acquire the issued ordinary share capital of AIM-listed Mytrah Energy Limited. The acquisition was implemented by means of a takeover offer governed by the UK Takeover Code and valued the entire issued share capital of Mytrah Energy Limited at approximately £78.9 million.
Transaction represents the largest domestic European FinTech deal to date in 2018.
Worldline, European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, has announced its acquisition of SIX Payment Services, the payment services division of SIX, for a consideration of €2.303 billion (CHF 2.750 billion). The transaction represents the largest domestic European FinTech deal to date in 2018 and will create the leading and largest payments provider in Europe.
Supported by a team led by Hamburg-based partner Dr. Lothar Ende, AERTEC Solutions S.L. has acquired 100% of the shares in aviation supplier and service provider QualityPark AviationCenter GmbH. AERTEC, a global provider of aerospace engineering services headquartered in Malaga, Spain, is thus continuing its international expansion and strengthening its competitive position in the European aviation services market.
Leading law firm Irwin Mitchell has advised Camfil AB on its acquisition of UK based Bushbury Holdings Limited, the owner of M.C. Air Filtration Limited.
Camfil AB is the Swedish parent company of a global group that is the world’s leading manufacturer of air filters and clean air solutions.
DLA Piper has advised StackPath, a leading secure edge services platform provider headquartered in Dallas, TX, on its cross-border acquisition of Server Density. StackPath is an investee company of Abry Partners, a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
The DLA Piper team included Southeast US Managing Partner Joe Alexander (Miami) and Atlanta-based partner Brian Gordon and was led by London-based partner Anu Balasubramanian and senior associate Simon Wright, with assistance from senior associate Nick Hinton and associate Suzanne Doogan.
The international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised one of the big South Korean "chaebol" conglomerates LG Electronics and LG Corporation on its acquisition of Austria based ZKW group for EUR 1.1bn (equity value).
The mandate was accompanied by international sites in Vienna, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Brussels and Beijing. The advisory team – under the lead of Freshfields partner Dr. Konrad Gröller (Vienna) and Dr. Heiner Braun (Frankfurt) – includes around 40 lawyers.