After several years of declining sales, over summer this year the Jensens Bøfhus restaurant chain succeeded in generating a profit from operations as well as a marked increase in revenue and visitor numbers in the chain’s 32 restaurants. A group of lenders from Funen, who in the autumn of 2017 granted loans to the restaurant group, have now purchased all shares in and all liabilities of Jensens Food Group A/S from the previous sole owner Palle Skov Jensen.

London-based case management software specialist, iCasework, has been acquired by Civica UK Limited.

Established in 1998, iCasework specialises in SaaS applications for case management, providing cloud software for enterprise complaints management, correspondence management and information request handling including in support of GDPR.

Its products are used by more than 100 customers in the UK, Australia and the USA to handle millions of cases annually, across national and local government, financial services and a range of other markets.

International law firm CMS has advised FTSE 250 listed infrastructure fund John Laing Infrastructure Fund Limited (JLIF) on its £1.45bn takeover by Jura Acquisitions Limited (Jura), a company owned by a consortium led by Dalmore Capital Limited and Equitix Investment Management Limited. The transaction was governed by the UK Takeover Code and effected by way of a court approved scheme of arrangement.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised Sinclair Pharma plc (Sinclair) on its proposed cash acquisition by a subsidiary of China's Huadong Medicine Co (Huadong) which values Sinclair at £166.6m.

Headquartered in London and quoted on AIM, Sinclair is a pure play aesthetics business directly operating in Western Europe, US, South Korea and Brazil, and via distributors around the world.

It is proposed that the acquisition, which the independent directors of Sinclair intend to recommend to shareholders, will be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement.

Stuttgart – ElringKlinger AG has sold its shareholding in new enerday GmbH to Dresden-based Sunfire GmbH. new enerday specialises in high-temperature SOFC (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell) technology. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

A CMS team headed by lead partner Dr Christoph Lächler advised ElringKlinger on all legal and tax aspects of the transaction.