Pinsent Masons has advised on the acquisition of League of Ireland football club Dundalk FC by a US based consortium for an undisclosed figure.
The firm not only advised on all aspects of transaction but played a key role in bringing the lead consortium stakeholders together.
Osborne Clarke has advised the owner of EDS GmbH, Johannes P. Müller, on its takeover by Reifenhäuser Group. EDS GmbH will operate within the Reifenhäuser Group as a separate independent business unit. With this acquisition, Reifenhäuser will further expand its existing expertise in die production and significantly strengthen the design know-how for die and film tools.
Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, EDS GmbH is a leading supplier of high-end extrusion tools and a flat dies specialist.
DLA Piper has advised the UK’s largest franchised dealer group, Sytner. on its acquisition of The Car People, nearly doubling the size of their Used Vehicle Supermarket Division. This is Sytner’s second car supermarket takeover in the last 12 months, having acquired CarShop earlier last year, a transaction in which DLA Piper also advised on.
The Car People operates from four locations in Wakefield, Sheffield, Manchester and Warrington, and sells about 18,000 vehicles a year.
A Bryan Cave M&A team led by Partner Michael Leue and Counsel Hubertus Schröder advised Weiderer Holding GmbH, headquartered in Deggendorf, Germany, in the sale of its HR service activities to TimePartner-Gruppe, a leading German HR service provider. The sale included all of the Weiderer Group’s shares in Aartos Personalservice, Weiderer Personaldienste and opTEAMum Personaldienstleistungen. The parties agreed to keep the sales price confidential. The German Federal Cartel Office has approved of the transaction.
Leading dedicated private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltics engages in the biogas business
Eversheds Sutherland Bitans team provided legal assistance to Baltcap Infrastructure Fund in the investment of 9,45 million euros in Latvian biogas business.
The fund obtained 75% stake in a joint-venture holding company, and the holding subsequently purchased three biogas companies, which own biogas plants working with the total power of 4,9 MW and two agricultural companies, providing the biogas plants with the necessary raw material.
Skadden is advising Validus Holdings, Ltd. on its $5.6 billion acquisition by American International Group, Inc.
Slaughter and May and BonelliErede, working as an integrated team, are advising Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. (Richemont) on a proposed voluntary public tender offer (to be made by a newly formed wholly-owned Italian subsidiary of Richemont) to acquire all of the ordinary shares of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group S.p.A.
Simpson Thacher represented BC Partners in connection with the raising of BC European Capital X ("BCEC X"), BC Partners' tenth flagship private equity fund, which has announced a final close at its €7 billion target. Like its €6.7 billion predecessor fund, BCEC X will focus on making large, market-leading investments in Europe and, selectively, North America.
London – January 22, 2018 – Cooley advised the senior management team of Atcore Technology Group, a leading travel technology company, on its sale to Inflexion Private Equity. Private equity partner Stephen Rosen led the Cooley team.
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising American International Group on the acquisition of the Validus Group, a leading provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and asset management services. The transaction is expected to close mid-2018.
Holders of Validus common shares will receive cash consideration of $68.00 per share, for an aggregate transaction value of $5.56 billion, funded by cash on hand.