Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised Ecuphar NV (‘Ecuphar’), a European animal health company focused on the development and sale of veterinary pharmaceutical products, on its merger with Animalcare Group plc (‘Animalcare’). Animalcare is an AIM-listed UK supplier of generic veterinary medicines and identification products and services. The market value of the combined group following completion will be approximately £225m.
 

Gide advises Debiopharm Holding, shareholder of Eurosic, in the context of the friendly business combination between Gecina and Eurosic, consisting in the acquisition of all the securities of Eurosic by Gecina.

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier advised Eurosic for its combination with Gecina creating the fourth largest European real estate group with 19.3 billion euros of assets

Hannes Snellman acted as counsel to Lemminkäinen Corporation in the combination of Lemminkäinen Corporation and YIT Corporation through a statutory merger.  The combination is a strategically important leap to create a platform to grow to one of the leading urban developers in the Northern European construction market. The preliminary combined annual revenue of the combined company is approximately EUR 3.4 billion. The combined company will have approximately 10,000 employees located in 11 different countries.

The medical technology associations Medical Cluster and FASMED have merged into the SWISS MEDTECH association. SWISS MEDTECH has now a combined expertise of 600 member companies. With this strength, the new umbrella organisation wants to facilitate the implementation of major projects and make tackling challenges easier, to improve the framework conditions in this economically essential business.

London - Lawyers from the London office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP have advised online estate agency business easyProperty on its merger with GPEA, the parent company of The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country, for an undisclosed sum. The transaction was structured by a combination of cash and equity and was backed by institutional multi-asset fund manager Toscafund Asset Management.

We represented Detapo Oy’s and Laponte Oy’s private and entrepreneur shareholders in a merger based on a share exchange as well as on drawing up the shareholders’ agreements.

Both of the companies, Pohjolan Design-Talo (Detapo Oy) which makes wooden, move-in ready houses and Talliosake (Laponte Oy) offering work and storage spaces, are market leaders in their own field. The merger is expected to create commercial synergies, new business opportunities and strong growth and development of the company in the future.

Vienna, 7 June 2017 – Wolf Theiss has advised IHR LABOR, a network of medical laboratories, in legal questions surrounding IP, data protection, employment law, corporate law, tenancy law and the drafting of contracts.

DLA Piper has advised Pengana Holdings on its successful merger with Hunter Hall International Limited (ASX: HHL).

Hunter Hall shareholders approved the merger on 1 June 2017, with more than 92 percent of votes cast in favour.

The merger of the two companies creates a substantial funds management business, and the combined entity has been renamed Pengana Capital Group Limited (ASX: PCG), with combined funds under management of approximately AU$3.1 billion.

DLA Piper has advised Vodafone on the proposed merger of Vodafone Malta Ltd and Melita Ltd. The combination will create a new fully integrated communications company with the scale and resources required to offer competitive ‘quad play’ bundled mobile, fixed broadband, fixed telephony and TV services to Maltese consumers and a full range of enterprise services for businesses and the public sector.