Osborne Clarke has advised Highland Europe on its investment in the start-up company adjust GmbH. With the investment of EUR 15.0 million, the company plans to further accelerate its product expansion, while strengthening its commitment to the mobile marketing industry through pushing forward developments in both fraud and data protection.

Highland Europe is an investor in expansion-stage internet, mobile and software companies demonstrating rapid growth and addressing large market opportunities.

Simmons & Simmons has advised the UK Department of Health on the launch of the global Dementia Discovery Fund. The Dementia Discovery Fund is the world’s first venture capital fund dedicated to funding pre-clinical research for a cure or treatment of dementia and is a collaboration between the UK Government (Department of Health), six global pharmaceutical companies (Biogen, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company) and the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK.

Noerr has advised the Berlin start-up business adjust GmbH on the investment from the international investment company Highland Europe. Highland Europe invests a total of EUR 15 million.

adjust GmbH specialises in analyse tools for apps and mobile applications and provides its customers with data on the user behaviour relating to their products. With this technology, the company, which was established in 2012, belongs to the global market leaders and today has branches also in San Francisco and Tokyo.

Noerr has advised the Swedish company QMATIC on a strategic investment in the German market. The leading provider of customer flow management systems is acquiring NetCallUp Software GmbH from Bocholt.

The company offers a software-based queue management system called NetCallUp to provide efficient management of visitor flows. The system ensures organised execution of client services in customer waiting areas. With this transaction, QMATIC has been able to enter the German market with the assistance of Noerr.

Advisors to QMATIC A.B.: Noerr LLP

Law firm Eversheds has advised Euro Garages, one of the largest independent forecourt operators in the UK, on a £1.3bn investment.

TDR Capital, the London-based investment firm which owns rival company European Forecourt Retail Group, has taken a minority stake in Euro Garages, a Lancashire-based company owned by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa.

Euro Garages has a portfolio of over 340 sites across the UK including petrol stations and related shops. It also operates the Rivington services on the M61.

We are acting for Sequa Petroleum and its Norwegian subsidiary, Tellus Petroleum, in the acquisition of three licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf which represents a 15% stake in the Gina Krog Unit from Total E&P Norge.

Upon completion, the total settlement value is expected to amount to NOK 1.4 billion.

Squire Patton Boggs has advised the leading CEE venture capital fund MCI.TechVentures on a recently completed minority share investment in iZettle, a Sweden-based mobile payments company, following the company’s Series D funding round. The terms of investment were not disclosed.

Shoosmiths has advised private equity firm Oakfield Capital Partners (Oakfield) on an investment in to The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Co Ltd (Gainsborough) - a leading industrial-sized weavers in England which holds the Royal Warrant.

The new investment will allow the company to capitalise on its rich heritage of fabric designs and boost its sales and marketing efforts around the world.

Shoosmiths' partner Alastair Peet and associate Gareth Cook advised Oakfield on all corporate aspects while Tax partner Tom Wilde provided specialist EIS tax advice.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), advised TVM Capital Life Science (TVM Capital), on the first closing of its China BioPharma Capital Fund (China BioPharma), raising more than $50 million in commitments.

TVM Capital Life Science is a group of independent investment advisors and fund managers for Venture Capital funds investing in innovative biotech, pharmaceutical, and medtech companies in Europe, Canada the USA and Asia. The teams are based in Munich, Montréal and Asia.

Shoosmiths acted for the management team of Coryton Advanced Fuels Limited, the market-leading fuel blending and consultancy services business, on a significant investment from Lyceum Capital to accelerate its international expansion.

The investment will enable the company to grow its range of added-value services and production capacity in the UK, develop existing export markets in Germany and expand into new markets in the US and Asia.