Eversheds Sutherland has advised new client TDKP Limited (Moneypenny) on its acquisition of Made Simple Group (Made Simple).

Moneypenny is the world's leading provider of telephone answering, outsourced switchboard, Live Chat and customer contact solutions.

Made Simple is home to a range of products dedicated to providing online solutions to the start-up and small business communities, such as company formation, virtual offices, website creation and most recently a co-working space in central London. 

DLA Piper has advised Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR), the world’s largest global network of higher education institutions, on the sale of its global network institution in Malaysia -INTI University and Colleges (INTI)- to Affinity Equity Partners (Affinity), one of the largest independent private equity firms in the Asia Pacific region, for a total transaction value of US$180 million. The net transaction value to Laureate under the Agreement will be US$162 million.

Linklaters has advised a consortium of banks on the financing of the acquisition of Paysafe Group Plc by Blackstone and CVC. Paysafe is a leading global online payments services company serving more than 125,000 merchants in over 100 countries and this transaction is one of the largest public-to-private takeovers of the year and one of the top 10 largest European LBO's of 2017.
 

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Oxford PV Germany GmbH on an European Investment Bank (EIB) financing of €15m. Oxford PV Germany GmbH is a subsidiary of Oxford Photovoltaics Limited, the leader in the field of perovskite solar cells. The financing supports the transfer of its disruptive perovskite on silicon tandem solar cell technology from lab scale to commercialisation.

International law firm Taylor Wessing has represented one of the investors in a USD 270 million Series A round of financing of BioNTech AG, a fully-integrated biotechnology company pioneering individualized cancer immunotherapy.

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Taylor Wessing: Dr. Norman Röchert and Marc-Oliver Kurth (Lead Partner, Partners, Berlin), Maria Weiers (Partner, Düsseldorf), Dr. Sebastian Beyer (Salary Partner, Frankfurt), Dr. Sebastian Klabunde (Senior Associate), Christian Ahrendt (Associate, both Berlin) (all Corporate, M&A an Capital Markets)

DWF has advised Keywords Studios on its $27 million acquisition of Sperasoft Inc and Sperasoft Studio LLC, a strategic purchase that will enable the global games provider to continue its growth plans.

Addleshaw Goddard is advising Sheffield-based Sumo Group plc on its £145m IPO, which was announced today and will be effective on 21 December.

The deal is 100th company floatation of 2017 and breaks the century barrier for the London Stock Exchange for the first time in three years.

Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG has acquired Bellevue-Bau AG from Anlagestiftung fenaco LANDI.

LONDON (December 22, 2017) – Morrison & Foerster is advising Global Logistic Properties Limited (GLP), the leading global provider of modern logistics facilities, in connection with the formation of two new European funds which increase the size of GLP’s fund management platform by US$4 billion (€3.4 billion) to US$43 billion. These funds were formed in conjunction with GLP’s acquisition of Gazeley, a premier developer, investor and manager of European logistics warehouses and distribution parks.

CMS has advised a consortium consisting of Aspen Group and a number of other Israeli institutional parties in the purchase of a real estate portfolio. The consortium has acquired a property portfolio consisting of 8 (office) buildings from APF International and Ares Management. The total transaction value amounted to approx. € 115 million. The portfolio has a total lettable floor area of approximately 63,000 m² and generates approximately 9.5 million euro in annual rental income with an occupancy rate of 99%.