Norton Rose Fulbright has advised the shareholders of First Names Group (including the majority shareholder, AnaCap Financial Partners) on the sale of the group to the SGG Group. Completion of the deal is subject to regulatory approvals.
Norton Rose Fulbright has acted for the sellers and management of Rockspring Property Holdings Limited (Rockspring) on their conditional sale of the Group to Patrizia Immobilien AG (Patrizia). The sale is subject to regulatory and antitrust approvals.
The Fieldfisher Energy – Oil and Gas team has recently acted as English legal advisers for client JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production ("KMG EP") in respect of US$1.95 billion tender offer launched by the company on 8 December 2017 for its GDRs and shares, valued at US$5.6bn. The team also advised on its proposed delisting from the Official List of the London Stock Exchange and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.
The Fieldfisher Energy – Oil and Gas team has recently acted as English legal advisers for client JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production ("KMG EP") in respect of US$1.95 billion tender offer launched by the company on 8 December 2017 for its GDRs and shares, valued at US$5.6bn. The team also advised on its proposed delisting from the Official List of the London Stock Exchange and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.
Bird & Bird's Corporate team in Helsinki, led by partner Maria Carlsson and assisted by associates Iina-Mari Supperi and Laura Kallinen, has advised the sellers of Visual Components on the sale of the company to German-Chinese robotics giant, KUKA. Corum Group acted as financial advisors to the sellers in close cooperation with the Bird & Bird team.
Advising Vobile Group Limited on its initial public offering and listing on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
The firm has advised Vobile Group Limited (Stock code: 3738) on its initial public offering and listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Simmons & Simmons acted as issuer's Hong Kong counsel to Vobile Group Limited. Silicon Valley-based Vobile Group is the leading provider of online video content protection services.
Cross-border Eversheds Sutherland team advises CyrusOne on its agreement to acquire Zenium Data Centers
Eversheds Sutherland has advised US firm CyrusOne Inc. (CyrusOne), a premier global data center REIT, on its agreement with Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd (Quantum) to acquire Zenium Data Centers (Zenium), a leading hyperscale data center provider in Europe, for $442 million.
Quantum is a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC. Zenium has four properties in London and Frankfurt, the continent’s two largest data center markets.
Ashurst advised Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH (Warburg-HIH Invest) on the sale of the office and commercial building "Kö-Blick" in Dusseldorf's Königsallee 61 to the "Cicerone Fund", an Italian pension fund managed by CBRE Global Investors and Fabrica SGR. The property belonged to the portfolio of an individual fund (open real estate special AIF) of Warburg-HIH Invest. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase volume.
Mayer Brown JSM acted as the legal adviser for Essence Corporate Finance (Hong Kong) Limited as Sole Sponsor in relation to China Futex Holdings Limited’s listing on Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
China Futex is engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and sales of both single and double circular knitting machines.
The Mayer Brown JSM team was led by Corporate & Securities partner Derek Tsang.