Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) has advised the Colorado Department of Transportation, the Colorado Bridge Enterprise and the Colorado High Performance Transportation Enterprise on their procurement of the Central 70 P3 Project.
Hill Dickinson’s Manchester corporate team has advised Waterland Private Equity on a multi-million pound investment in Gas Tag, the pioneering technology company.
The deal, which values Gas Tag at well in excess of £20 million, will enable the Liverpool-headquartered business to continue to scale up rapidly both within the UK and internationally.
In return for the investment, Waterland will gain a minority stake and two of its senior team will join the board of the company.
Macfarlanes has advised Twenty14 Holdings, the hospitality investment arm of Abu Dhabi-based conglomerate Lulu Group International, on the £85m acquisition of The Caledonian, a Hilton owned and Waldorf Astoria branded hotel in central Edinburgh.
Twenty14 Holdings has a strategy of investing in profitable luxury sites while preserving their historical legacy and plans to invest an additional £20m sensitively renovating and expanding the hotel by a further 50 rooms over the next few years.
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Anne S. LaWer as a shareholder in the San Jose office. LaWer joins from GCA Law Partners in the Bay Area.
Macfarlanes has advised Quayle Munro, an independent firm that provides corporate finance advisory services to companies underpinned by data & analytics, content, software and services, on its acquisition by Houlihan Lokey, Inc., a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation and strategic consulting.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised British entrepreneur and businessman, Jamie Waller, and his investment vehicle, on an investment into the car retail business of webuycarstoday.co.uk.
Jamie’s investment vehicle acquired a 45 per cent stake and he will join the business as a non-executive Chairman. The investment will enable the business to further develop its software solutions and enhance its vehicle buying capabilities.
Squire Patton Boggs has acted for the senior executive team and employee shareholders of QM Advisory Limited, the parent company of Quayle Munro Limited (Quayle Munro), in the sale of 100% of the issued share capital of Quayle Munro to a subsidiary of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI). The transaction is conditional on FCA approval.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised a consortium of lenders comprising DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V.(FMO), as well as KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH as facility agent, on the €167m financing of the Vientos Los Hércules onshore wind farm project in the southern Argentine province of Santa Cruz.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) has advised independent insurance intermediary Global Risk Partners Ltd (“GRP”) on its acquisition of the Crewe-based County Group. GRP’s second major acquisition of 2018, the deal has received regulatory approval and the consideration is undisclosed.
In September 2017, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) helped Shenzhen Great Walle Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“Great Walle”) win its dispute with Liu Jianqiu (the “plaintiff”) and the third party Shenzhen Century Plaza Hotel Co., Ltd. (Stock Code: SZ00033, “Century Plaza”) over the validity of legality and legal consequences of Great Walle’s takeover action (the “Case”).