Willkie represents Impala in the sale of its majority stake in the French removable office partitions specialist Clestra Hauserman.

Willkie advised Impala on the sale of its majority stake in the French removable office partitions specialist Clestra Hauserman, which was held through its subsidiary Impala Industries since 2013. Clestra Hauserman employs 660 people worldwide, including 390 in France, primarily in Illkirch near Strasbourg (270 employees). It generates €150 million in turnover.

DLA Piper won a significant victory for its client, Maryland Reclamation Associates, Inc.(MRA), in a case filed against Harford County, Maryland, in the Harford County Circuit Court. The jury awarded MRA more than US$45 million in damages.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised Classic Fashion Apparel Industry Ltd. Co. (CFAI) in connection with the strategic investment made into CFAI by NBK Capital Partners and Gulf Capital. This investment will enable CFAI to enter the next stage of its development, accelerating the expansion of production facilities and increasing annual exports beyond 60 million garments.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) is advising GCL Holdings LP S.à.r.l., an entity ultimately controlled by aPriori Capital Partners LP and co-invested by Melville S.r.l. (‘Melville’), on the sale of Guala Closures (‘Guala’). Melville is controlled by NB Renaissance Partners Holdings S.à.r.l., a wholly owned subsidiary of NB Renaissance Partners, which is a partnership managed by Neuberger Berman Group.

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised specialist private equity fund manager YFM Equity Partners (“YFM”) on its investment into Eikon Group Limited, a provider of end-to-end, digital post-production services to the motion picture and broadcast industry.

The funding will be used to support Eikon’s expansion into the US where a new state of the art studio will be built in Burbank, Los Angeles as well as continued investment in the development of technology to enhance the service delivery to customers.

CMS advised MAXIMA GRUPE UAB on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Emperia Holding S.A., the owner of the Stokrotka supermarket chain. The investment agreement was signed in November 2017 and on 24 November 2017 a tender offer for 100% of the company's shares was announced. The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection approved the acquisition on 5 April 2018.

Jones Day represented Cellectis S.A., a French clinical-stage biopharmaceutical developer of innovative cancer treatments using gene editing technologies, in connection with a $175 million public offering of American Depositary Shares on NASDAQ, underwritten by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup, and Barclays.

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(Singapore) – Akin Gump is advising Electric Power Development Corporation, the listed Japanese energy company and one of the largest power generators in Japan, better known as “J-Power,” on its participation in a world-first project to produce hydrogen from Australia’s vast brown coal reserves in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria.

Dechert LLP advised long-standing client Quilvest Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Quilvest group, on its acquisition of global micro-specialist recruitment firm Phaidon International.

Quilvest’s investment will continue the development of Phaidon International by using its global network to support the company’s expansion abroad. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

International law firm Proskauer advised GIC on its acquisition, with The Carlyle Group, of the specialty chemicals business of Akzo Nobel for €10.1 billion.

Established in 1981 to manage Singapore’s foreign reserves, GIC is a global long-term investor with over $100 billion in assets in over 40 countries worldwide.