Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is advising the banks in connection with private equity firms Investindustrial and The Carlyle Group’s bid to create a design-focused furnishing company by combining several firms into a single group with total sales of more than €500 million. The new company will initially be established by bringing together three businesses currently controlled by Investindustrial — namely furniture-maker B&B Italia, and lighting specialists Flos, and Louis Poulsen.

LONDON – Reed Smith has advised client Agrivert Holdings Limited and its shareholders on the sale of the company, its subsidiaries and the UK operating business to Severn Trent plc for £120 million.

Founded in 1994, Agrivert UK is a leader in renewable energy generation from food waste, with five well-established food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plants and five green and comingled waste composting sites.

Shearman & Sterling represented BAML, ABN AMRO, Barclays, Citigroup and Crédit Agricole on InterXion’s high yield “tap” offering of €200 million 4¾% senior notes due 2025.

InterXion, is headquartered in Amsterdam, and is a leading provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data center services in Europe. It supports approximately 2,000 customers through 50 data centers in 11 countries.

Shearman & Sterling advised Warner Music Group (WMG) on the acquisition of EMP Merchandising Handelsgesellschaft mbH (EMP), one of Europe’s leading specialty music and entertainment merchandise e-tailers. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2018, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions including competition authority approval in Germany.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised the Vendors, including award-winning growth investor Synova Capital on the sale of 4Ways to ECI Partners, a leading growth-focused, UK mid-market private equity firm.

Osborne Clarke previously acted for Synova on the original buyout of 4Ways in 2015.

Budapest--Dentons has advised leading CEE commercial real estate company Globe Trade Centre S.A. (GTC) on its 100% acquisition of a real property located on Vaci ut 85 adjacent to GTC Hungary's Center Point Office Buildings.

Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its insurance and reinsurance practice with the recruitment of Carol-Ann Burton, who has re-joined the firm as a partner in London. Carol-Ann previously worked as a consultant to the firm in London and the Middle East.

James Cannatti, former US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) senior counselor, joined the Firm as a partner based in Washington, DC. “James’ experience with OIG strategy and policy for health IT oversight, along with his broad understanding of today’s pertinent digital health and fraud and abuse issues, will be a tremendous asset for our clients,” said Stephen Bernstein, international head of McDermott’s Health Industry Advisory Practice Group.

DLA Piper has announced that Daniel Tobey has joined the firm's Litigation practice as a partner in Dallas.

Tobey, who is a medical doctor and software entrepreneur in addition to an accomplished litigator, brings a unique mix of experience to his representation of technology, healthcare and life sciences companies in matters ranging from patent disputes to tort and contract claims.

DLA Piper has today that Michael Dougherty and Tony Pezzano have joined the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology practice as partners in New York.

Dougherty and Pezzano focus their practice on patent litigation, particularly in the life sciences sector, including representing brand pharmaceuticals in suits against generic drug companies under the Hatch-Waxman Act.