Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the senior lenders to Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE) on the financing of its acquisition from Engie and Mitsui of the 1,000MW brown coal-fired power plant Loy Yang B in Victoria, Australia.
Osborne Clarke has advised growth investor Synova Capital on the management buy-out of Mintec Global, a world leading provider of global pricing data and intelligence for non-traded food ingredients.
Osborne Clarke has advised the senior management team of Cloud Savings Company Limited on its acquisition of Invitation Digital Limited (“IDL”), owner and operator of the Vouchercloud and Giftcloud brands, following a management buy-out from the Vodafone Group, placing the company back in the hands of its original founders, Scott Davidson and Greg Le Tocq.
Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Aquiline Capital Partners (Aquiline) on the sale of its interest in London-based broker Beach & Associates (Beach) to Acrisure LLC (Acrisure). Acrisure has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Beach’s equity from existing shareholders, which include Aquiline as well as current and previous Beach management.
Gowling WLG has acted on the sale of The Regard Group to specialist investment manager AMP Capital.
Regard, founded in 1994, is one of the UK's five largest specialist care providers and offers industry-leading specialist care for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues.
Gowling WLG advised the principal shareholders of The Regard Group on the sale, including its majority shareholder The Montreux Healthcare Fund plc.
Gowling WLG's real estate team has advised a client of Savills IM on the purchase of 30 Broadwick Street from Great Portland Estates (GPE), in a deal worth c. £190 million.
TLT has advised Santander on a landmark transaction signalling that the energy storage market is now ripe for debt funding.
The investment sees Santander provide a £28.5m facility to Battery Energy Storage Solutions Limited (BESS), an independent developer, operator and owner of battery storage units in the UK that aims to reach a 100MW portfolio by the end of 2018.
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.