A team led by Prof. Dr. Georg Streit and Dr. Arnold Büssemaker successfully advised Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH on the sale of its company in a bidding process. Following negotiations with several investors until recently, a fund advised by CMP Capital Management-Partners GmbH will now take over the business operations of Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH and its French subsidiary Bavaria Catamarans SAS. All employees will be taken over. The creditors’ committee and the administrator have already given their approval.

Wolf Theiss has advised Raiffeisen Bank International AG and UniCredit Bank Austria AG as joint lead managers of a € 150 million bond (ISIN: AT0000A22H40) of CA Immobilien Anlagen Aktiengesellschaft.

Clifford Chance Badea, the local office of global law firm Clifford Chance, has advised Polish-based private equity fund Abris Capital Partners on the sale of courier company Urgent Cargus to Mid Europa Partners.

DLA Piper has advised the exceet Group on the sale of their portfolio company AEMtec GmbH - the Berlin based micro- and optoelectronics company - to Mellifera Neunundzwanzigste Beteiligungsgesellschaft. The buyer is controlled by capiton V GmbH & Co. KG, a fund belonging to the private equity company capiton. The completion of the transaction is subject to clearance by the appropriate cartel authorities.

Slaughter and May, as part of an integrated team with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, advised The Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) on certain English law aspects arising from its ongoing $85bn acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (“Fox”) and in relation to Fox’s involvement in the £30bn takeover battle for Sky plc.

Top 40 law firm Trowers & Hamlins has advised Transport for London on its arrangements with Apartments for London to develop affordable homes over car parks and other sites owned by the transport authority.

The plans are part of TfL's overall strategy in helping to solve the housing crisis and also support the Mayor of London's strategy to build 50% of affordable homes on public land.

Baker McKenzie, with a team led by partner Alessandro Matteini, assisted BNP Paribas REIM in the acquisition, on behalf of NEIF II fund (Next Estate Income Fund II), managed by BNP Paribas REIM Luxembourg, of the "Gaurico Building", a multi-tenant office complex located in Rome in the EUR Laurentina area.

The seller has been assisted by the international law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners (GOP) with partner Gabriele Arcuri, assisted by associate Alessia D'Errico.

The joint venture of a Starwood Capital Group fund subsidiary and CELLS Property Investors bought the Fifty Avon office buildings in downtown Frank-furt in a share deal. GSK Stockmann provided the legal support for this trans-action. The parties agreed to keep the purchase price confidential.

TLT has advised AIM-listed online fashion retailer boohoo group plc on the appointment of John Lyttle as its new chief executive, a major development for the brand.

TLT worked with Keri Devine, general counsel and company secretary of boohoo, to provide a critical advisory role to both her and the board giving pragmatic legal guidance at different stages of the appointment.

The TLT team included corporate partners Alice Gardner and Elizabeth Delaney, and employment and incentives partners Ben Watson, Ed Cotton and Paula Cole.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) Paris advised a syndicate of French banks on the €56m refinancing, arranged by BRED Banque Populaire and Bpifrance, of 30% of a solar portfolio operated by SUN’R.