Eversheds Sutherland has welcomed new Partner, Dr Stefan Schramm, to its banking and finance team based in Hamburg. Stefan joins from Simmons & Simmons where he was head of the German banking practice.

Stefan specialises in advising clients on the granting and restructuring of national and international real estate, corporate (including acquisitions), project and asset financing and structured financing. He has significant experience advising banks and private equity investors on the financing and acquisition of commercial and residential property.

International law firm Hill Dickinson has bolstered its marine and corporate capabilities with the appointments of finance and corporate partner Jasel Chauhan, senior associate Anthony Paizes and legal assistant Foteini Sfyndili to its Piraeus office.

Niederer Kraft Frey advised Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn, Germany, as investor in the Series A financing round of Spearhead AG.

Spearhead AG with its headquarters in Zurich was founded in 2015 and delivers accident, damage and automotive lifecycle analytics. It provides services and platforms for optimised end-to-end claims processing benefitting all involved parties: automotive insurances and customers.

Davis Polk advised Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (“Valeant”) and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International in connection with a $4.565 billion senior secured term loan and $1.225 billion senior secured revolving credit facility. The proceeds of the secured term loan were used to refinance Valeant’s existing secured term loan facility. The secured revolving credit facility will be used for general corporate purposes.

Bain Capital, through its majority-held subsidiary Only About Children, has acquired the Little Learning School business including 20 childcare centres.

MinterEllison advised global private equity leader Bain Capital and childcare operator Only About Children which, prior to the deal, operated 44 campuses across Melbourne and Sydney.

Gide has advised group Climater, a climate engineering leader in France, on the acquisition of (i) group EFM, comprising EFM-airprocess and Christin Electricité, specialising in the study, design and installation of Heating-Ventilation-Air-Conditioning solutions and industrial electricity, and (ii) Sedicam, specialising in the maintenance of heating and air conditioning installations. With these two operations, Climater will double in size in the Lyon region (south-east quarter of France), and exceed the 150-million euro production threshold.
 

We represented the buyer in a corporate transaction in which Digitalist Group Plc acquired Grow Holding AB and its subsidiaries in Sweden, Norway and Finland through a share exchange.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) is advising leading global private equity firm Advent International (‘Advent’) in connection with its exclusive negotiations to sell Ammeraal Beltech, a global leader in light-weight process and conveyor belting, to Partners Group.
 

Linklaters advised Echo Investment and its affiliates on the EU35.8m sale of West Link, an office building of an area exceeding 14,200 sqm located in Wroclaw. West Link was 100 percent leased before opening by Nokia and Hilti. The transaction was structured as a share deal and involved a complex financing including bond issue and repayment of existing bank facility.

Slaughter and May is advising Richemont, the Swiss luxury goods group on its acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of Watchfinder.co.uk Limited, the leading premium pre-owned watch specialist, in a private transaction with its shareholders.