A team of specialists headed by partner Johannes Aehrenthal (Corporate/M&A) at international corporate law firm CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati has advised the shareholders of FirmenABC Entwicklung und Management GmbH in connection with the sale of 80% of its share capital to Eugen Marketing Beteiligungen GmbH, a company belonging to the Swiss Investnet group. The buyers were advised by Martin Wiedenbauer (WMWP).

Stibbe has advised Blackstone on its sale of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam to Anbang.

Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment firms with over $360 billion in assets under management.

Simpson Thacher is representing Blackstone in the announced sale of its pan European logistics company, Logicor, to China Investment Corporation for €12.25 billion.

Logicor owns and operates a portfolio of high-quality logistics assets totaling 147 million square feet, in 17 countries with over 70% concentrated in the U.K., Germany, France and Southern Europe.

The Simpson Thacher team included Wheatly MacNamara, Adam Signy, Anais Fritz, Sneha Shah, Emily Cornhill and Harris Kaufman (Corporate); and Tom Lloyd and Edd Hampson (Banking and Credit).

Osborne Clarke has advised the founder shareholders and senior managers of Network Mapping Group Limited (NM Group) on its sale to Trimble.

NM Group is a specialist service provider of asset management, survey and mapping solutions to the power sector.  The acquisition will expand Trimble’s energy solutions portfolio to provide high-value data modelling and 3D visualisation services for the utilities industry.

Addleshaw Goddard has advised 'AG Elevate' FinTech client, PACE Invoice, an innovative multi-currency invoicing platform provider based in London on its sale to Flywire, a leading provider of international payment solutions based in the US.

CMS has advised the founders of artificial intelligence (AI) expert RAVN Systems on its sale to iManage, a US-based provider of Work Product Management solutions.

Founded in 2010, RAVN has developed an AI platform that automates the organisation and discovery of relevant information from large volumes of documents and unstructured data. RAVN's unique proprietary technology has been trained by experts in a number of law firms and corporations and continues to learn as it is used.

The private equity fund EQT has sold the Danish packaging manufacturer Færch Plast Group A/S to the private equity firm Advent International. Plesner assisted EQT with the transaction.

Færch Plast is a leading European manufacturer of plastic packaging for the food industry. EQT acquired Færch Plast in 2014 and has now sold the business after having owned it for three years.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised CVC Capital Partners Asia III (CVC) on the disposal of outsourced service provider to education, science, technical and medical research publishers, SPi Global for approximately US$330 million. CVC is one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms.

Partner Neeraj Budhwani led the matter, supported by partner Richard Blewett (Beijing) and senior associates Bryan Koo and Maureen Ho. This transaction will complete CVC's exit from SPi Global.

Client name
All shareholders of Q-Park N.V. - seller
Other parties involved
KKR Infrastructure investment platform; Q-Park N.V.
Nature of transaction

On 30 May 2017, Kiwi GT Sub II S.à r.l., a company owned by EQT and the Kuoni Hugentobler Foundation, has agreed to sell all its shares in Kuoni Travel Investments Ltd. (Kuoni's Group Travel Services) to the JTB Corporation. The partnership formed between Kuoni Global Travel Services and JTB Corporation is an opportunity to become the global no. 1 destination management provider.