SEB Venture Capital, Fouriertransform and Karolinska Development have invested approximately 93 million SEK in OssDsign. The proceeds will be used for the international expansion of OssDsign’s product line of unique craniofacial implants based on innovative material technology with excellent biological and biomechanical properties.

Settewalls has been advisor in connection with the investment. The team was led by Mattias Detterfelt primarily assisted by Anders Grefberg, Sophia Spala and Tobias Öd.

Pinsent Masons has advised Chicago-based PEAK6 Investments, L.P. on their investment into and acquisition of a 25% equity interest in English Premier League football club AFC Bournemouth.

PEAK6’s Co-founder and CEO, Matt Hulsizer, lead the investment for PEAK6 with in-house attorney Jay Coppoletta co-ordinating the transaction internally.

We assisted Inventure, a leading Nordic early-stage venture capital company, in an investment in Finnish growth company Umbra. Umbra is a Finnish 3D graphics software company that has been powering up graphics performance in more than 100 video games during the last 10 years. Clients include internationally renowned game studios that have produced commercially successful AAA products such as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Batman Arkham Knight, Quantum Break, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Destiny.

We assisted Inventure, a leading Nordic early-stage venture capital company, in an investment in Finnish growth company Bitbar. Bitbar is a Finnish technology and service company focused on providing high-performance mobile software development and testing solutions for mobile app and game developers. The company’s flagship product – Testdroid – has been used to make many of the most popular mobile apps and games reliable.

A cross-border King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) team has advised Australian producer, Bindaree Beef on the sale and issue of a combined 45 percent stake in the company to one of China’s largest meat processors, Shandong Delisi Food Co.

The high profile Chinese investment is one of the first in the agribusiness sector since the signing of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. The deal serves as a strong example of the opportunities presented to Chinese and Australian agribusiness sectors as tariffs are reduced across a range of products including beef.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Siemens Financial Services (SFS) on its acquisition of a 25% stake in the Galloper offshore wind farm, which is to be built off the coast of Suffolk.
The project is now owned in equal shares by the joint equity partners RWE Innogy, Siemens Financial Services, Macquarie and the Green Investment Bank, having previously been jointly developed by RWE Innogy and SSE. Financial Close was achieved on Thursday 29 October.

White & Case LLP has advised Naspers Limited, the South African-based global internet and media company, on its US$1.2 billion investment to become the largest shareholder in Avito, the leading online classifieds platform in Russia.

Naspers is buying shares from existing shareholders to increase its stake in the Swedish holding company Avito AB from 17.4 percent to 67.9 percent on a fully diluted basis.

Simpson Thacher is representing an affiliate of Tsinghua University in connection with the acquisition of a 25% interest in Powertech Technology Inc. (“Powertech Technology”) at approximately US$600 million. Powertech Technology is a leading global outsourced assembly and test services provider based in Taiwan. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals in both China and Taiwan and certain customary closing conditions.

The Simpson Thacher team for this transaction includes Chris Lin, Jin Park and Heather Tsai (Corporate).

Knip AG, Zurich, recently closed Switzerland's largest fintech financing round for a start-up so far with CHF 15 million. The series B round was led by Route 66 Ventures, which was joined by Creathor Venture and QED Investors (respectively funds managed by these venture capital firms) as series B investors, adding to the existing series A investors such as Orange Growth Capital and Redalpine. Knip AG is a mobile-first digital insurance broker enabling its users through an app to easily view and manage their insurance policies on their smartphone.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Reaction Engines Limited on a strategic minority investment from BAE Systems. As a part of the transaction, the two companies will be entering into a working partnership to accelerate the development of SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) – a new aerospace engine class that combines both jet and rocket technologies with the potential to revolutionise hypersonic flight and space access.