Shearman & Sterling advised Golar LNG Limited in connection with its entry into a Preliminary Agreement, and exchange of a Heads of Terms ("HoT") for a Charter Agreement, with BP Mauritania Investments Limited and BP Senegal Investments Limited, (together "BP") in their capacity as block operators.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Verdane Capital IX (D) AB and Verdane Capital IX (E) AB (Verdane) on the acquisition of shares in Navabi GmbH, CareerFoundry GmbH and Kyto GmbH from Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG and its venture capital arm, Bauer Venture Fund I GmbH & Co. KG. The parties have agreed to not disclose the volume and details of the transaction.

Matheson advised private equity fund The Riverside Company “Riverside” on its acquisition of Netwatch, an Irish based private security company which supplies cutting edge commercial and residential video surveillance to customers across Ireland, the UK and the US.  Announced by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on 23 April 2018, the acquisition was simultaneous with Riverside’s concurrent acquisition of US based National Monitoring Center and CalAtlantic, as well as UK based Onwatch, to form Netwatch Global.  The new combined Netwatch Group group is set to become the glo

Bird & Bird advises the Finnish construction equipment rental company, Renta (a portfolio company to the Finnish private equity firm Intera Partners) in their international expansion through the acquisition of the Swedish Stål & Hyr Group.

DLA Piper represented Bregal Sagemount in the sale of its portfolio company Remote DBA Experts, LLC, a leading provider of remote database administration and cloud-managed services, to Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.

International legal business DWF has advised NorthEdge Capital on the management buyout (MBO) of Prohire, a specialist provider of commercial fleet management solutions, backing the existing management team led by Managing Director Dave Barlow.

Headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, Prohire delivers fully outsourced solutions to commercial operators incorporating vehicle specification, procurement, funding and fleet management, with a focus on compliance, minimising costs and maximising vehicle and driver efficiency.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised BookingBug Limited, a leading appointment and scheduling platform, on its $13.4 million Series C fundraising round from PeakSpan Capital and Downing Ventures.

This funding round saw BookingBug’s first investment from a US fund. The new capital will be used to build on the business’ rapid growth – BookingBug was recognised by Deloitte as one of Europe’s fastest growing technology companies in 2017 (Fast 500 EMEA).

Slaughter and May is advising Vodafone on the proposed merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers to create a pan-Indian tower company with over 163,000 towers and a pro forma equity value of c.INR965bn (US$14.6bn) that will be the largest of its kind outside China.

Taylor Wessing has advised longstanding client Rutland Partners on the sale of Pizza Hut Restaurants UK to its existing management team led by Jens Hofma (CEO). The disposal concludes an extremely successful investment for Rutland Fund II.

Rutland first acquired Pizza Hut Restaurants UK (excluding the Delivery Business) in November 2012 from the global franchisor, Yum! Brands.

Travers Smith LLP has acted for Goldman Sachs International and Numis Securities in their capacity as joint bookrunners on the £80m placing of new ordinary shares issued by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG).

The proceeds of the placing are to be used to part fund the proposed acquisition of PeopleFluent Holdings Corp. announced by LTG on 24 April 2018.