International law firm Pinsent Masons and Swiss law firm Niederer Kraft & Frey have advised Finastra on the acquisition of Olfa Soft SA and its cutting edge FX e-trading platform for banks and financial institutions.
The move enables Finastra to deliver a unique end-to-end real-time eFX trading solution for banks’ treasury departments, covering distribution, position-keeping, post-trade and payments.
CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA, Oldenburg, acquired approx. 80% of the shares of Stardust Media And Communication S.A.S., Paris, from its founders and financial investors and secured the acquisition of the remaining approx. 20% of the shares by way of options.
With its brand “Cheerz”, primarily targeted at smartphone users, the company is very successful in France, Spain and Italy and is growing dynamically.
Jeantet advised CEWE comprehensively with the following team:
– Karl Hepp de Sevelinges (Partner, Lead M&A, Paris)
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of all shares in Reutlingen-based almato GmbH and accompanied the transaction.
Almato GmbH, founded in 2002, specializes in optimizing standard business processes and is one of the pioneers in the field of full and partial automation.
DATAGROUP SE, headquartered in Pliezhausen, is a leading German IT service company with more than 1,900 employees.
Travers Smith LLP has advised TruFin plc, the FinTech and banking business, on its £185 million IPO and admission to AIM.
TruFin plc successfully conducted a conditional placing and subscription of Ordinary Shares to raise gross proceeds of approximately £70 million.
Slaughter and May advised SB Investment Advisers (UK) Limited (SBIA), an investment adviser to SoftBank Vision Fund, on SoftBank Vision Fund’s investment in two technology companies in the Ping An group - Ping An Healthcare and Technology Company Limited (Ping An Good Doctor) and Ping An Medical and Healthcare Management Co., Ltd. (Ping An Healthcare Technology).
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) advised the German investment firm Aurelius Group on the acquisition of Abelan Board Industrial S.L from PHI Industrial. The deal represents Aurelius third acquisition in the European packaging sector since 2015 and will further strengthen the Group’s operations in this market.
German Cabrera, partner at KWM in Madrid, has led the advice to Aurelius Group. The legal team is completed with partner Joaquín Sales and associates María Redondo and Gonzalo Fernández.
International law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Finastra on the acquisition of Olfa Soft SA and its cutting edge FX e-trading platform for banks and financial institutions.
The move enables Finastra to deliver a unique end-to-end real-time eFX trading solution for banks’ treasury departments, covering distribution, position-keeping, post-trade and payments.
Herbert Smith Freehills is advising Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (Woodside) on its A$2.5 billion fully underwritten 1 for 9 renounceable pro-rata entitlement offer (with retail rights trading) announced to ASX on 14 February 2018.
The proceeds from the equity raising will be used by Woodside to fund the acquisition of up to an additional 50% interest in the Scarborough gas field and for general corporate purposes, including funding support for the Scarborough and SNE Phase 1 developments and to progress development of Browse to targeted final investment decision.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has advised Indonesian conglomerate PT Astra International Tbk (‘Astra International’) on the acquisition of a US$150m stake in Indonesian technology platform GO-JEK Group (’GO-JEK’). The deal signed on 12 February 2018.
DLA Piper has advised Herge Holding on the sale of Nutriad, a global feed additives producer to Adisseo for a total consideration of $192m. Listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Adisseo is one of the world's leading experts in feed additives and forms part of chemical company, China National BlueStar. Herge Holding is held by RBS and Rabobank.