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.

International legal practice 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.

Taylor Wessing Bratislava advised the biggest Slovak online book retailer and the second biggest book retailer in Slovakia, Martinus, s.r.o., on the acquisition of its competitor, the e-shop Gorila.sk.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP advised Bain Capital Private Equity on its acquisition of Bugaboo International, a Dutch design company that develops and produces mobility products. Bugaboo is particularly well known for its iconic stroller, which it launched in 1999. The transaction, the value of which was not disclosed, signed on February 2, 2018.

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Addleshaw Goddard's Food and Drink sector team has advised Bright Blue Foods (BBF) on the acquisition of a major cake and dessert business based in Hull, from Greencore.

Jones Day advised Cardinal Health in the $1.2 billion sale of its Cardinal Health China business to Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co., Ltd.

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Warsaw - Feb. 2, 2018 - Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Somerston Group, an international investor engaged primarily in real estate investment and development, through its affiliate Newbridge Poland, a Warsaw-based investment and development firm, in the acquisition of three shopping centers in Torun (Centrum Handlowe Bielawy), Krakow (Centrum Handlowe Czyzyny) and Lodz (Centrum Handlowe Guliwer).

Allen & Overy is advising Goldman Sachs International as the arranger providing the financing for Compagnie Financière Richemont SA (Richemont) as it launches an EUR2.6 billion voluntary public tender offer to acquire all ordinary shares of Yoox Net-A-Porter Group that it doesn’t already own.

Ashurst advised the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) on the negotiation of the lease agreement for its new headquarters at Belliard 40 in Brussels.

Cefic has signed a long-term lease agreement with owner Cofinimmo for over 6,000 m² of office space in a brand new project in the heart of the European institutions neighbourhood.

The Ashurst Brussels team was led by real estate partner David Du Pont. He was assisted by associate Clément Dekemexhe.

Ashurst advised 2L-Invest SA, a company of the Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus)-group, on the sale of its long-term leasehold rights on the building Place de Louvain 12 to a Luxembourg real estate investor. The 19th century style office building is located in the heart of Brussels and offers a general leasable area of approximately 3,000 square meters and is fully let to the Flemish Community. The real estate investor acquired the long-term lease right through an asset sale.