A Travers Smith team led by corporate partner Helen Croke advised long standing client Bridgepoint Development Capital ("BDC"), a major international private equity firm on the acquisition of Phlexglobal, the specialist provider of technology-enabled document management solutions and other support services to the global clinical research market from Inflexion Private Equity.
Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised Rame Energy plc (“Rame”) on the acquisition of the entire share capital of Beco Ltd (“Beco”), one of the United Kingdom’s longest established designers and installers of photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. AIM-listed Rame funded the acquisition through the issue of new ordinary shares.
Paul Weiss and Macfarlanes have advised private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners on its acquisition of Pulsant Group, a leading provider of managed, hosted data centre and IT infrastructure services to the mid-market.
The Macfarlanes team was led on the corporate side by partners Matthew Blows, John Dodsworth and Jessica Adam. Banking partner Christopher Lawrence and senior counsel Kirstie Hutchinson provided financing advice.
Partner David Lakhdhir and counsel Wendy Semel acted at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
Simmons & Simmons has advised Fugro on the acquisition of the Geofor group of companies based in Mauritius, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) and São Tomé e Principe. In addition to its business in those countries, Geofor also has significant experience in Niger, Chad and Equatorial Guinea.
Geofor is an onshore/nearshore geotechnical group providing drilling services delivered by highly specialised engineers and geologists in the fields of geotechnical consulting, hydrology and land surveys.
Glencore has acquired Caracal Energy Inc, a Canadian company listed on the London Stock Exchange for an all cash consideration of £5.50 per common share, valuing Caracal's shares at approximately US $1.35 billion. Clifford Chance also advised Glencore in relation to the impact of the acquisition on Caracal's US $173,600,000 Convertible Bonds due 2017.
Clifford Chance advised on all English law aspects of the transaction, providing integrated advice across four practice areas – Corporate, Capital Markets, Dispute Resolution and Energy & Infrastructure.
Hogan Lovells proudly announces that it has advised American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH), a leading provider of high quality single-family homes, in its acquisition of Beazer Pre-Owned Rental Homes, Inc., a private REIT originally formed by Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH). The acquisition adds more than 1,300 homes located in markets in Arizona, California, Florida, and Nevada to American Homes 4 Rent’s portfolio.
DLA Piper has advised Oakley Capital on its acquisition of North Sails Europe, the exclusive licensee and distributor for North Sails’ sailing technology and products in Europe and New Zealand. This acquisition is intended to complement Oakley Capital's recent acquisition of the US-based North Sails Group, a transaction which DLA Piper also advised on.
DLA Piper has advised GE Betz on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Monsal Holdings Limited (Monsal) for an undisclosed sum.
Monsal is one of the UK's leading advanced anaerobic digestion & integrated biogas to energy businesses. The transaction enables GE Betz, which falls under the GE Power & Water arm, to provide customers with more energy-efficient options for water treatment solutions.
Berlin – Louvre Hotels Group has purchased – in a joint venture together with the Eurasian Private Equity Fund A CAPITAL – a portfolio of ten hotels from the German affiliates of the French hotel chain Balladins.
Louvre Hotels Group has been advised by a team from CMS Hasche Sigle around the Berlin located real estate lawyers Dr. Andreas Otto and Dr. Jochen Reuter.
CMS in Glasgow has advised Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC), in its acquisition of Sheffield based Preformed Windings Ltd (PFW), a manufacturer of high voltage coils for electric motors and generators from Deritend Industries Limited.
The acquisition of PFW continues CBC’s investment in mission critical engineering companies serving the oil and gas, power and mining sectors.