Travers Smith Head of Private Equity, Phil Sanderson, advised the management shareholders of TSL Education Group Limited on the sale and on the reinvestment in the new Group.
The team includes Senior Counsel, Emma Pearce, senior corporate associate, Sonal Patel, corporate associate Ben Hanglin and tax partner, Simon Skinner.
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Hogan Lovells advised Saft, the world's leading designer and manufacturer of advanced batteries for industry, in relation to the sale on 28 June 2013 of its small nickel battery activity (SNB) - now operating as ARTS Energy - to Active'Invest, a French investment company.
Osborne Clarke has advised the shareholders of accident rehabilitation and medical reporting specialist React & Recover Medical Group Limited on its sale to Quindell Portfolio plc, the acquisitive AIM-traded technology and outsourcing group, for £13m via a mixture of cash and shares.
Head of Business Transactions, Ray Berg and Associate Director Thomas Colmer led for Osborne Clarke assisted by tax solicitor Mark Braude.
International law firm Clifford Chance advised Bridgepoint on the sale of Permaswage, the market leader in the manufacture of permanent and separable couplings for major aerospace companies globally, to Precision Castparts Corp. of the US.
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has advised GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd on the sale of Springer Science+Business Media to BC Partners.
Largest African FMCG private equity transaction in Sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa
Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the owners of Fan Milk International A/S (FMI), a Danish dairy company in relation to the sale of FMI to the Abraaj Group, a Dubai buyout firm managing $7.5 billion of assets.
Media statement - Addleshaw Goddard's private equity team has advised Bridges Ventures on the sale of its majority position in The Gym Group to Phoenix Equity Partners. Phoenix has acquired a majority stake in the business whilst Bridges Ventures, an investor in The Gym since 2007, will retain a 25%/minority shareholding, enabling its investors to continue to benefit from future growth in the business.
The Addleshaw Goddard team was led by London private equity partner Mike Hinchliffe, and included tax partner Elaine Gwilt and associates Marc Field and Zulon Begum.
International law firm Pinsent Masons has advised The Co-operative Group on the strategic disposal programme relating to its motor dealership business. The Co-operative owned 12 motor dealerships which it has disposed of over the last 12 months via 7 separate transactions. The final transaction was the £31m sale of Albert Farnell Ltd, which comprised three Land Rover dealerships and a premium used car operation, to Vertu Motors plc.
Nordea - divestment of its Polish banking, life and financing businesses to PKO
Slaughter and May, working with K&L Gates, Warsaw, is advising Nordea Bank AB (publ), registered in Sweden, on the English law aspects of the divestment of its Polish banking, financing and life insurance operations, including Nordea Bank Polska S.A., to PKO Bank Polski S.A.
Osborne Clarke has advised NVM Private Equity Limited and the management shareholders on the sale of Cwmbran based IG Doors, a manufacturer of composite external doors for the housebuilding industry to Hörmann Group, a family owned German manufacturer of residential and industrial doors.
OC has previously advised long-standing client NVM on the sale of DxS, where NVM was lead investor to Qiagen and the sale of the legal software provider, TFB, to Tikit plc.