The London office of leading international legal practice Norton Rose has advised UBM plc on the £160 million proposed disposal of certain parts of its data services business to Electra Private Equity Partners.

UBM’s proposed disposal of its data services business consists of five divisions: Aviation, Global Trade, Medica, RISI and Tech Insights.

The disposal involves the sale of 70 companies in 44 jurisdictions and asset sales in the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan.

As well as London, the transaction involved additional advice being sought from Norton Rose offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.

UBM relationship partner Ian Lopez said: ‘I have advised UBM for over 15 years and it was a pleasure to advise them on this transaction. This was a complex, multi-jurisdictional transaction which relied heavily on our global expertise across markets and jurisdictions.’

As well as Ian Lopez the London team includes Simon Rowson, Dan Jarman and James Parkinson (Corporate), Catrina Smith, Ben Wright and Tom Hobart (Employment), Mike Knapper, Jane Berry and Aimee Smart (Intellectual Property and Information Technology), Lesley Browning and Ed Hunnisett (Pensions), Karen Fielding (Property), James Dunnett and Jonathan Ng (Banking), Dominic Stuttaford and Ed Denny (Tax), Monique Fry and Liron Cohen (incentives) and Mark Jones and Celine Fang (Competition).

Local law advice was provided by Norton Rose offices in Amsterdam (Marcel van de Vorst), Bangkok (Sarah Chen), Frankfurt (Nico Abel), Hong Kong (Jon Perry), Kazakhstan (Tatiana Muratova), Montreal (Sara Joli-Coeur), Moscow (Milana Yusoupova), Munich (Michael Malterer and Igsaan Varachia), Paris (Laure Joncour and Marie-Therese Eugenio), Shanghai (Lynn Yang and Grace Ye), Singapore (Daniel Yong), Sydney (Shaun Clyne) and Warsaw (Artur Jonczyk).

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