TLT has advised Thrive Renewables on a joint venture (JV) with Aura Power to supply medium and large energy users with free battery storage installations in return for revenue share.

Mayer Brown advised has Webhelp SAS on the acquisition of all shares of the Sellbytel Group.

The Webhelp Group is a portfolio company of the leading American investment company, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P (KKR). The seller is the global operating agency group, BBDO, which is based in New York. The transaction is still subject to the approval of antitrust authorities, and the parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

Baker McKenzie advised Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Prudential, on its investment in the CCNST Group, a leading provider of broadband services in Germany. The significant investment of the investor Infracapital was secured, among other things, for the further expansion of the gigabit company in Germany. The investment directly affects amplus AG, which is as a telecommunications network operator one of the flagship companies of the CCNST Group.

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Alexander Dolgov as a Partner in the Financial Services Practice Group in its Moscow office. Mr. Dolgov is an experienced and highly regarded projects and project finance lawyer with a specialization in public private partnership (PPP) and infrastructure projects. He joins from Hogan Lovells in Moscow, where he has led the office’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Projects group since 2014, and arrives with a team of four lawyers.

DLA Piper has announced that Corporate/M&A and Private Equity lawyer, Gerald Schumann, will be joining the firm as a partner in its Corporate practice, based in Munich.

Gerald will be joining the firm from Baker McKenzie, where he was a partner since 2008. He advises clients on M&A transactions, including public or private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, as well as venture capital transactions. He also acts for national and international clients on the legal aspects of restructurings, securities offerings and other general corporate matters.

International law firm Pinsent Masons has strengthened its City offering with the appointment of Carl Posern to the firm’s Structured Finance team.

The Warsaw office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP advised Fabryka PZO sp. z o.o, a subsidiary of Soho Development S.A., on the sale of a property comprising over 10,000 m 2, which was part of the former Polish Optical Industries factory located at Grochowska street in Warsaw.

The transaction was led by Partner Radomil Charzynski, who was supported by Associates Kamil Majewski and Michal Niecko.

MinterEllison has advised oOh!media Limited (ASX: OML) on its A$570 million acquisition of Adshel from HT&E Limited (HT&E), and OML's associated capital raising.

One of Australia's largest out-of-home media companies, OML provides advertisers with access to a diverse range of audiences across Australia and New Zealand via a portfolio of classic and digital signs across roadside, retail, airport and place-based media.

Ashurst advised insurance group R+V Versicherung on the acquisition of Peek & Cloppenburg's commercial building located on Markt 1 in the German city of Luebeck. The property was sold by the Pan European Urban Retail Fund (PURetail), managed in a joint venture between La Française Real Estate Partners International and Aberdeen Standard Investments Deutschland AG. PURetail acquired the property in 2015 from a real estate fund of Deutsche Bank.

Leading national law firm Blake Morgan has advised travel management business Ovation Travel Group, Inc. on their acquisition of Chartwell Travel Limited.

Headquartered in the US, Ovation provides comprehensive travel management solutions to professional and service-oriented businesses.  This is their first acquisition outside of the US and an important step in their plans for international growth.