Taylor Wessing has advised Altigi GmbH, holding company of the Hamburg-based game developer Goodgame Studios on its acquisition by the Swedish gaming company Stillfront Group for €270 million.
Taylor Wessing advised Laureus Capital GmbH and certain other sellers on the sale of Altigi GmbH (“Goodgame Studios”) to Stillfront Group AB (publ) (“Stillfront”).
Ashurst is advising Ladbrokes Coral on its potential acquisition by GVC Holdings, the possible terms of which were announced today. Under these terms, Ladbrokes Coral shareholders would be entitled to 32.7p in cash and 0.141 ordinary GVC shares for each Ladbrokes Coral share, and a potential further value of up to 42.8p structured as a contingent value right (CVR).
Herbert Smith Freehills has advised the owners of Whitbread Insurance Group (Whitbread), a leading general insurance broker and strata-focused underwriting agency, on the sale of its business to Steadfast Group for A$95 million.
The international law firm BEITEN BURKHARDT has advised Duetz Fashion Gesellschaft mbH and Duetz Einzelhandels GmbH on the sale of all shares in GANT DACH GmbH to GANT Holding AB. The Signing has taken place in October 2017 and Closing is scheduled for the end of December 2017. The parties have agreed that the purchase price will not be disclosed.
Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client The Peel Group, the largest shareholder in Intu Properties plc (Intu), in connection with Hammerson plc's £3.4billion recommended offer for Intu.
Intu has 20 shopping centres across the UK including the intu Trafford Centre in Manchester. The recommended offer by Hammerson would bring ownership of London's Brent Cross, the Birmingham Bullring and Manchester's Trafford Centre into one group.
Burges Salmon has advised on the sale of EPM, a leading provider of HR and Payroll services to the Education sector, to Citation.
Burges Salmon advised the selling shareholders on all legal aspects of the sale of EPM and also advised the management team on their re-investment in Citation. Citation is owned by HG and is a national provider of HR, Employment Law, Health and Safety and ISO services to UK businesses.
DWF has advised specialist sofa retailer Sofology Ltd on its multimillion pound sale to DFS following clearance from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
International legal business DWF has advised specialist sofa retailer Sofology Ltd on its multimillion pound sale to DFS following clearance from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
The completion of the sale takes place just months after DWF lawyers advised the 37-strong store chain when DFS struck the £25m acquisition deal in August.
Skadden is representing Atrium Innovations and global private equity firm Permira in the $2.3 billion acquisition of Atrium by Nestlé.
International law firm has advised long-standing client GAME Digital plc (LON:GMD) on the sale of its subsidiary Multiplay, which operates an online game server-hosting business for game developers and a direct B2C game hosting service, to San Francisco-headquartered Unity Technologies for a consideration of £19 million.
Multiplay’s state-of-the-art hybrid bare metal server and cloud technology is used for some of the most popular and largest online games, such as major title Titanfall 2, and automatically scales to meet player demand.