Eversheds acted for Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.

Birmingham-based Hills Numberplates Ltd has announced the acquisition of French number plate manufacturer Faab Fabricauto from 3M’s Traffic Safety and Security Division for an undisclosed sum.

Faab Fabricauto is a leading French manufacturer of license plates and signage solutions with facilities in Bourg-en-Bresse and Macon. The purchase by the UK manufacturer sees Hills move closer to their ambitions of becoming a major global player in the number plate market. The sale will see all 150 workers transition with the business to assist in Hills future growth.

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised parent company, Datatec on Logicalis’ acquisition of 100% of shares in Thomas Duryea Consulting in an all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum.

Australian IT infrastructure consultancy, Thomas Duryea is headquartered in Melbourne. IT infrastructure and managed services company, Logicalis is owned by Datatec, a global IT giant listed on the Johannesburg and London Stock Exchanges that also owns major distributor Westcon Group.

A joint team of Slaughter and May, Uría Menéndez and Hengeler Muller lawyers is advising The Riverside Company on its acquisition of Euromed, S.A., a business-to-business manufacturer of herbal extracts and natural active substances located in Spain. The total consideration is EUR 82 million.

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Financing: Miranda Leung (partner), Robert Byk (partner), Andrew Chaplin (associate); Corporate: Michael Corbett (partner)

The measurement technology group Hexagon, has acquired Camtech GmbH& Co KG. Camtech has been a distributor of Vero Software’s EdgeCAM solutions in Germany since 2003. Vero Software was acquired by Hexagon in 2014. The addition of  Camtech to the Hexagon portfolio supports Hexagon's and Vero's commitment to develop future-oriented manufacturing solutions.

DLA Piper has advised Wipro Limited, a multi-national business and IT consultancy, on the acquisition of Cellent AG from its sole shareholder, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. Cellent AG is one of the leading IT consultancy and software service providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The two parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price of the shares.

A Shanghai-based team of GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Zschimmer & Schwarz Chemie GmbH, a global supplier of high performance chemical specialties and auxiliaries headquartered in Lahnstein, Germany (“Zschimmer & Schwarz”), on the Chinese law aspects of its acquisition of Interpolymer Corporation, U.S.A., a worldwide specialist and technology leader for tailor-made specialty polymers (“Interpolymer”).

IZICO, owned by the Dutch private equity fund Egeria’ and manufacturer of frozen convenience food products, yesterday announced the acquisition of Daloon A/S, the Nyborg based fellow manufacturer of frozen convenience food products and famous for their spring rolls.

The acquisition will strengthen IZICO’s position in Scandinavia , broaden the existing range of Meat-Free products, and present IZICO with the opportunity to continue developing  foreign markets with product innovation using Daloon’s existing networks and vice versa.

Macfarlanes has advised specialist healthcare investor GHO Capital on its acquisition of Quotient Clinical, a provider of outsourced, early-stage drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry.

Quotient Clinical is headquartered in the UK and enables pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers to improve research and development productivity and accelerate drug development timelines.

CMS has advised Poland based manufacturer and wholesaler of household appliances Amica Wronki S.A. on the purchase of the entire issued share capital of The CDA Group Limited, a UK based retailer of high quality kitchen appliances, from its shareholders, three individuals, for GBP 24.3m. The financing of the acquisition was partly funded from Amica’s own funds and partly via a bonds issue.