Schulte advised global investment firm Marlin Equity Partners and its portfolio company Tangoe, in the acquisition of MOBI Wireless Management, LLC, a leading provider of cloud-based managed mobility services software solutions (“MMS”). MOBI will be merged with Tangoe, expanding Tangoe’s ability to provide powerful MMS solutions and allowing MOBI clients access to global technology expense management (“TEM”) capabilities. This transaction will create the largest and most advanced TEM and MMS platform accessible to enterprises today.

Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance has advised KfW-IPEX Bank on a US$72 million loan agreement to Quantum Pacific Shipping (QPS) for the purchase and installation of scrubbers.

Backed by the Norwegian export credit guarantee agency GIEK, the facility will be used to acquire and install exhaust gas cleaning scrubbers from Clean Marine. It is the first scrubber financing that has been backed by a GIEK guarantee.

Davis Polk is advising Mereo BioPharma Group plc on its combination with OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and the approval of OncoMed’s shareholders, is expected to close in the first half of 2018. OncoMed’s existing stockholders are expected to receive American Depositary Shares, which will be listed on Nasdaq and which, when issued on closing, will represent approximately 25% of the outstanding share capital of Mereo, subject to certain adjustments.

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm has announced that Maureen K. Ohlhausen has joined the firm, and will become a partner and a Co-Chair of the global Antitrust Practice effective January 1, 2019.

WBD has hired trade mark lawyer, Robin Richardson, to join its expanding Leeds-based Intellectual Property (IP) team.

Robin joins from KISCH IP, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a Fellow of the South African Institute of IP Law and a South African-qualified Trade Mark practitioner and domain name adjudicator. His focus include trade marks, social media (including Facebook and Twitter), domain names and brand protection in the commercial and digital arena.

Patrick Cantrill, Head of IP at WBD comments,

DLA Piper has announced that Jason Harmon has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate practice in Baltimore.

Art-Invest Real Estate signed a long-term lease agreement with Deloitte, an international auditing and consulting company, for 13,000 m2 in the office complex ATLAS in Munich’s Werksviertel. After the rental spaces will be completed at the beginning of 2019, Deloitte will move into the first five ATLAS floors. Adding to the existing branch office at Rosenheimer Platz and the Deloitte Digital premises in Werk3, the ATLAS office will be Deloitte’s third presence in Munich’s east.

The international commercial law firm BEITEN BURKHARDT has advised Epic Games, Inc. on the introduction of its new digital distribution platform Epic Games Store in all relevant areas of German law.

Zephyrus Aviation Capital, a fleet management solutions provider focused on older and end-of-life aircraft and engine leasing & trading, announced that it has closed the Company's first structured ABS financing, ZCAP 2018-1.  Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 2018-1 Ltd and Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 2018-1 LLC will borrow $336.6m, which will be used to finance the acquisition of a diversified portfolio of 21 in-production, predominantly narrow-body aircraft on lease to 19 lessees in 14 countries, from Dublin-based Avolon.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised Huzhou Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd. (Huzhou Communications) as its English law counsel on the issuance of CNY 500 million 5.9% notes due 2021.

This marks the first-ever dim sum bond offering by a PRC issuer at the municipal level. It is also the first overseas investment grade bond issuance by a municipal-level state-owned company that is involved in the communication investment business.