Travers Smith LLP has advised Lyceum Capital Partners and other selling shareholders on the sale of the Compact Media group to Ole Media Management L.P., a Canada-based provider of music publishing services.
Compact Media is one of the leading independent global collection agents for audio visual secondary rights, representing over 250,000 works worldwide.
Squire Patton Boggs advised Plat.One Inc., a leading enterprise-grade Internet of Things (IoT) solution platform in its acquisition by SAP, a market leader in enterprise application software.
Plat.One's IoT platform enables the rapid development and scalable management of enterprise IoT environments, including connected products, smart cities, connected transport and smart manufacturing.
Schoenherr is advising OVS S.p.A. ("OVS"), a leading Italian clothing retailer, and Sempione Retail AG ("Sempione Retail") in connection with Sempione Retail's cash tender offer for all publicly held bearer shares of Swiss company Charles Vögele Holding AG ("Charles Vögele") in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Poland.
Eversheds Germany has advised Chemtura on the German aspects of its takeover by Lanxess, the biggest acquisition in the history of the specialty chemicals company.
The transaction, with an enterprise value of approximately €2.4 billion, is mainly financed by Lanxess on enterprise and hybrid bonds. Lanxess is one of the largest global suppliers of flame and lubricant additives and the takeover will significantly expand Chemtura’s business in North America.
We acted as the legal advisor to Mawell Oy in the sale of Mawell Care Oy to Luona Oy, part of Barona Group.
Mawell Care is the leading private provider of outsourced health counselling and home care integrator services in Finland. Mawell Care is the service provider for Tampere City in its Kotitori service concept for the aged people. Health counselling customers include mainly hospital districts.
Travers Smith LLP has advised UK Mail Group plc, one of the largest integrated mail and parcel operators within the UK, in relation to the recommended cash offer made by Deutsche Post AG to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of UK Mail.
UK Mail was founded in 1971 by the current Chairman, Peter Kane, originating as a taxi firm in Harrow and which has now evolved into a national network offering same day courier and overnight parcel delivery both locally and worldwide with more than 50 sites, 2,800 employees and 2,400 vehicles.
Baker & McKenzie advised BigAir Group Limited on its $200 million acquisition by Superloop Limited. The transaction will be implemented by scheme of arrangement.
The combined group will be a $600 million, ASX listed full service telecommunications and managed services company capable providing customers with end to end voice, data, cloud and managed IT services by utilising its own wireless and fibre optic networks. The combined company will also service Singapore and Hong Kong by leveraging Superloop’s rapidly expanding footprint in those markets.
The major shareholders in Danish Ship Finance - Danske Bank A/S, the Danish National Bank, A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S and Nordea Bank AB - have sold their entire shareholdings of 72% of the share capital to Axcel, PFA and PKA. Danish Ship Finance prices the transaction at DKK 4.7bn. Plesner advised the sellers on the transaction.
Sidley advised an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital European Partners LP on its disposal of Zmarta Group to Bauer Media Group. The transaction closed today following regulatory approval from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.
The Zmarta Group is a leading fintech marketplace in Northern Europe offering a broad range of personal financial services to consumers, including personal loans, insurance, credit cards and a recently launched Personal Finance Management app.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised well-known music publishing and recording business Alberts on the sale of its music publishing business to German music company BMG.
The transaction signed in July and has now completed. One of the key closing conditions was agreeing the terms on which the Albert family would retain its stake in the back catalogues of AC/DC and The Easybeats songwriters Harry Vanda, George Young and Stevie Wright. BMG will administer these assets on behalf of Alberts.