Herbert Smith Freehills Paris LLP advised the Korean company CSLI Co. Ltd, on its acquisition of French company SYSTRAN, one of the world's leading providers of machine translation technology.

Systran's management and principal shareholders began exclusive negotiations with CSLI Co. Ltd on 18 December 2013 for the sale of all of their shares in Systran (namely all existing shares and any new shares obtained through the exercise of their share subscription options), representing around 38.04% of the company's capital, to CSLI Co. Ltd at a price of €5 per share.

Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has advised Al Tayyar Group Holding Company ("Al Tayyar") on a £13.5 million acquisition of Thomas Cook Group plc's UK corporate travel business, Co-operative Travel Management.

Osborne Clarke has advised long standing client Fleetcor Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FTL), the leading global provider of fuel cards and workforce payment products to businesses, on its joint venture with growth equity investor Summit Partners to acquire Masternaut Group Holdings Limited, Europe's largest provider of telematics solutions to commercial fleets, from Francisco Partners.

Trowers & Hamlins has advised The Intertain Group Limited ("Intertain"), the TSXV-listed online gaming company, on its acquisition of leading online bingo provider, Mandalay Media Limited ("Mandalay").

The firm provided legal advice and expertise on Intertain's share purchase agreement to acquire, subject to financing, the entire issued share capital of Mandalay for an initial payment of £45 million in cash, subject to working capital adjustments, with up to a further £15 million in cash contingent on future profit performance.

Davis Polk advised I Squared Capital in connection with its acquisition, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund, of DTE CoolCo, LLC from DTE Energy Services, Inc.

I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment and management platform that focuses on energy, utilities and transport. CoolCo is a 10,350-ton district chilling system providing cooling services to a large and diverse customer base in the central business district of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Several months into the official combination between King & Wood Mallesons and SJ Berwin, a cross-border team, made up of Chinese and German lawyers across eight practice groups, has advised China Automobile Development United (Beijing) Technology Investment Co. Ltd., established by several key automobile manufacturers, on its acquisition of Meta Motoren- und Energietechnik GmbH from its founder and management.

HSBC has supported the Management Buy-Out (MBO) of 250-year-old Sheffield-based international industrial group Spear & Jackson, together with Pantene Industrial Ltd, a contract manufacturing company with offices and production facilities in Hong Kong and China.  Irwin Mitchell Advises On The Multi-Million Pound Deal

Norton Rose Fulbright advised CACEIS banking group, which belongs to Crédit Agricole, on the takeover of Sal. Oppenheim’s asset depositary activities for real estate and other physical assets in Germany. All concerned funds with a total volume of €12bn shall be migrated to the new custodian CACEIS by the end of 2014.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised CACEIS Bank Deutschland on corporate law issues for many years on an ongoing basis and can look back on successful cooperation in the context of various structurings and projects.

Squire Sanders has acted for Cott Corporation (NYSE:COT; TSX:BCB) in the acquisition by its UK business unit of all the subsidiary companies of Aimia Foods (Holdings) Limited. Cott is one of the world's largest producers of beverages on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors, with manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada, the UK and Mexico. Aimia Foods is a privately owned UK food and beverages manufacturer based at Haydock, Merseyside.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised MRC Global Inc. on the acquisition of MSD Engineering Pte. Ltd. by its Singapore subsidiary MRC Transmark Pte.Ltd.

MSD Engineering is a major distributor and regional service provider of valve and valve automation solutions across Singapore, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan.  The combined company will operate as MRC MSD Engineering, and serve oil and gas, petrochemical and other industrial sectors.