Slaughter and May advised Diageo in relation to the sale of its interests in Desnoes & Geddes and in Guinness Anchor Berhad to Heineken and also on its related acquisition of additional shares in Guinness Ghana Breweries. Diageo's net cash consideration receivable for the transaction is $780.5 million (approximately £515 million).

Diageo's completed transaction with Heineken brings increased focus to their respective beer businesses in Jamaica, Malaysia, Singapore and Ghana. The transaction comprises:

We represented SAS in the sale of its subsidiary Blue1 to Cityjet as part of a larger collaboration in which SAS will begin collaboration with Cityjet in regional jet services.

The Castrén & Snellman team was headed by Partner Carola Lindholm from our M&A service and included Counsel Tomi Kemppainen (Employment), Senior Associate Katja Lehtonen (International Construction & Projects) and Associate Silvaliisa Virri (M&A), among others.

mobile.de GmbH, a company in the eBay Classifieds Group, acquired MOTOR-TALK GmbH, Europe's largest car community. The eBay Classifieds Group is a global leader in the digital classified advertisement business and offers customized classified pages for local markets.

MOTOR-TALK has more than 2.5 million registered users and is thus the largest European car and engine platform on the Internet. The users can find out all about vehicle topics and exchange information and ideas in blogs and forums.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised funds advised by CHAMP Private Equity on the sale of its Alleasing business to private investment firm, Monash Private Capital.

The funds advised by CHAMP originally acquired Alleasing from Allco Finance Group in 2008.

The KWM team was led by partners Mark McNamara and Mike Barker, together with senior associate Matthew Coull. The debt financing aspects of the deal were led by partner Yuen Yee Cho, consultant Chris Robertson and senior associate Jana Hitchcock.

GA&P Team: David González Gálvez (partner corporate), Fernando Igartua (partner corporate), David González (partner corporate), Javier Vinuesa (partner corporate) and Pio García-Escudero (Lawyer).

Acquirer: Santander Consumer Finance, S.A.

Country: Spain

Target: Societe Financiere de Banque (50% Stake)

Country: France

Value: Not Available

NCTM represented the sellers in the sale of a 55% stake in Delta Tech S.p.A. to Toray Industries, Inc.

Delta Tech, founded in 1999, develops and produces, also through its subsidiary Delta Preg, pre-preg products based on carbon fiber for automotive and other industrial sectors.

The buyer, Toray, a Japanese company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is worldwide leader in the fields of organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry and biochemistry, and the world's largest supplier in the carbon fiber composites industry.

Noerr has advised the shareholders of MOTOR-TALK GmbH on the sale of the company to mobile.de GmbH. The shareholders include a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE and the investment company Global Founders Capital.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised asset manager Intermediate Capital Group plc (ICG) on the sale of its interest, together with Exponent Private Equity, in Quorn Foods to Philippines-based Monde Nissin for £550 million.

Quorn is an international meat alternatives business with a market leading position in 15 countries. It has around 620 employees in three UK sites, in Germany, and in the United States.

We have advised the shareholders of 99p Stores on its £55 million sale to Poundland

Poundland, Europe's leading single price general merchandise retailer, has acquired 99p Stores' network of 251 shops, which served more than two million customers a week, as well as its warehouse and distribution centre. As a result of the sale, Poundland now operates over 800 stores, serving around seven million customers every week generating turnover approaching £1.5 billion.

A cross border team of lawyers from international law firm Taylor Wessing has advised Caledonia Investments plc and Gasfin Investment SA on the sale of their majority stake in TGE Marine AG, the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction Supervision solution provider to the cryogenic gas markets, to MES Germany Beteiligungs GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.