Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) is advising RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries, on its simplification of its corporate structure from a dual-listed company into a single parent company that will be listed in London, Amsterdam and New York. 
 

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised global private equity firm EQT on the sale of diagnostic imaging business I-MED Radiology Network to fellow private equity firm Permira.

I-MED is the leading diagnostic imaging provider in Australia, performing almost five million procedures across 204 clinics every year.

Osborne Clarke has advised Calco Group, a leading Dutch provider of outsourced IT recruitment and training services to large blue-chip corporates, on its sale to Inflexion Private Equity Partners.

Calco Group specifically focuses on the provision of junior professionals mainly to the finance and insurance sectors with customers including the main banks and the top insurance companies in the Netherlands.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has advised Avico Group on the sale of its subsidiary Flybus to Transdev.

Avico Group offers a range of integrated services for the aviation transport industry, including aircraft leasing and chartering and airport facilities such as cabin cleaning and training. Flybus transfers passengers and aircrew between Paris Charles–de-Gaulle terminals and aircraft. It has a fleet of 50 buses serving more than 40 airlines, transporting over seven million passengers annually.

Travers Smith LLP has advised funds managed by Ancala Partners LLP on their acquisition of South Downs Capital Limited, parent company of Portsmouth Water Limited, from South Downs Trustees Limited as trustee of the South Downs Employee Benefit Trust.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised global commodity business Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) on the sale of both its Africa-based fertilizers and inputs operations and its global metals business.

Ashurst is advising Rothschild in relation to the £46 million recommended cash takeover of Stadium Group plc by TT Electronics plc.

Ashurst is advising Arla Foods on its proposed acquisition of Yeo Valley Dairies Limited, a subsidiary of Yeo Valley Group Limited. The transaction, which announced on 8 February, will give Arla the rights to use the Yeo Valley brand in milk, butter, spreads and cheese under an intellectual property licence. The Yeo Valley yogurt, ice cream, cream and desserts business will continue to be run independently by the Yeo Valley Group.

Clifford Chance has advised early-stage investor Mainincubator GmbH, a subsidiary of Commerzbank, on a single-digit million Euro seed funding for the Berlin-based software company Lana Labs GmbH.

Lana Labs develops software-based process optimisation tools for financial service providers. Vital legal aspects of the transaction were the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) and IT solutions.