Squire Patton Boggs has acted for the senior executive team and employee shareholders of QM Advisory Limited, the parent company of Quayle Munro Limited (Quayle Munro), in the sale of 100% of the issued share capital of Quayle Munro to a subsidiary of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI). The transaction is conditional on FCA approval.
Charles Russell Speechlys is delighted to have advised the shareholders of British luxury furniture brand OKA on the sale of the company to the Italian owner of Aston Martin, Investindustrial. OKA, co-founded by Lady Annabel Astor and designers Sue Jones and Lucinda Waterhouse as a mail-order business has expanded over 20 years and now has 14 shops across the UK.
Annabel Astor commented on the Charles Russell Speechlys team as follows: “Thank you all for the hard work, long hours and a very speedy result!”
Allen & Overy LLP has advised M.M. Warburg & CO (AG & Co.) KGaA, Hamburg (Warburg) on the sale of its subsidiaries Warburg Invest Luxembourg S.A. and M.M. Warburg & CO Luxembourg S.A. to Apex Group Ltd. (Apex), a portfolio company of Genstar Capital. The target entities have USD 50 billion assets under administration. The transaction follows Apex’s acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s Alternative Fund Services business in 2017.
Warburg and Apex will form a strategic partnership for Luxembourg based asset management services businesses.
International legal practice Osborne Clarke is advising TiGenix, an advanced biopharmaceutical company listed on Euronext Brussels and NASDAQ (TIG), in connection with the intended acquisition by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”).
DLA Piper represented private equity firm Caltius Equity Partners in the sale of its equity interest in national sign and lighting provider MC Sign, LLC to an affiliate of alternative investment manager Arcapita Investment Management US Inc.
Shearman & Sterling advised the previous shareholders of MeinAuto GmbH, including Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH, Global Founders Capital GmbH & Co., Beteiligungs KG Nr. 1, Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures GmbH and Herrn Nicolas Leutwiler, on the sale of their shares to the U.K. investment firm HgCapital.
The online platform MeinAuto.de is Germany’s leading online website for new car sales. MeinAuto, founded in 2007, is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The company has over 16 million visitors per year and is connected to more than 9,000 car dealers.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised Westfield Corporation on a A$32.76bn takeover offer by European shopping centre giant Unibail-Rodamco.
The combined group will have gross market value of €61.1bn ($95.43bn), creating a global property giant with 104 assets in 27 retail markets around the world.
We advised Generali on the sale of Generali PanEurope which has operated in Ireland since 1999. The agreement will ultimately be worth around €286 million after Generali receives settlements for existing intercompany financing arrangements.
The transaction is part of the Group strategy to optimize its geographical footprint, increase its operational efficiency and improve capital allocation.
It is subject to, inter alia, regulatory approvals and is expected to be finalized during the first half of 2018.
National law firm Shoosmiths has advised on the management buy-out (MBO) of The Quarr Group, a leading provider of building maintenance and construction, contract cleaning and contract catering.
The Quarr Group has been acquired by its management team, who included Brian Warren, Nelson Williams and Simon Ingram; the Managing Directors of the Quarr Group's subsidiaries: Nviro, Pabulum and Mountjoy, respectively.
New York Stock Exchange listed Dover Corporation acquires Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH and its affiliated entities in Germany and in the US. Ettlinger will become part of Dover’s Swiss business unit Maag Pump & Filtration Systems. Taylor Wessing has been advising the owners as seller in this transaction. Ettlinger manufactures and distributes filtering solutions for the plastics industry and plastics recycling industry as well as injection molding machinery.