Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised American Express Global Business Travel (‘American Express GBT’), a leading global travel management company, on its acquisition of Hogg Robinson Group PLC (‘HRG’), a global B2B services company specialising in travel management. The acquisition is conditional on the receipt of antitrust and other regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018.
 

Clifford Chance has acted as international legal counsel to the lenders in respect of the financing of the design, construction, operation, maintenance and repair of the Kinali-Odayeri and Kurtkoy-Akyazi sections (including access roads) of the Northern Marmara Motorway procured by the General Directorate of Highways of Turkey under the build-operate-transfer model.

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.

Matheson recently advised the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund on its equity investment in Mainstay Medical International plc (“Mainstay”). Mainstay raised a total of approximately €30 million from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, existing investors and new investors.

De Brauw served as Dutch counsel in the proposed cross-border merger between two listed companies.

Client name
RELX N.V.

Other parties involved
RELX PLC

Nature of transaction

Greenberg Traurig Germany advised CCP IV Core Plus-Style Fund (CCP IV) and European Property Investors Special Opportunities III (EPISO 3) on the sale of a logistics portfolio in Germany and Austria. The two funds are managed by the real estate company Tristan Capital Partners. The buyer is Frasers Property Investment Europe, a subsidiary of Frasers Property listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. The purchase price amounts to approximately EUR 178 million.

National law firm Mills & Reeve have advised Cambridge based Prior Scientific Instruments on its acquisition of the Queensgate Nano business from Electron Technology.

Prior Scientific is a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision positioning devices, optical systems, automation solutions, and components with offices in Cambridge, the US, Germany, Japan and China.

The Swiss utility ewz, the public utility company of the City of Zurich, is further expanding its renewable energy portfolio by acquiring the two onshore wind farm projects "Autremencourt" and "Vihiersois" from Hamburg-based Nordex SE.

Orrick has advised JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD), China’s largest retailer and e-commerce company, on the financing of its logistics subsidiary, JD Logistics. Investors include Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia China, China Merchants Group, Tencent, China Life, China Development Bank Capital FOF, China Structural Reform Fund and ICBC International, among others.