Skadden is representing Singapore-based Equis Funds Group Pte Ltd in its $5 billion sale of Equis Energy to Global Infrastructure Partners and co-investors.

RiverRock European Opportunities Fund has sold its ES-Plastic portfolio companies to French packaging specialist Proplast Group. Taylor Wessing has been advising RiverRock on this transaction in Germany. RiverRock serves institutional and high net worth investors and has raised approx. EUR 650 million of capital from prestigious investors, including leading sovereign and institutional investors such as the German Federal Government, the European Investment Bank and large family offices.

Eversheds Sutherland represented institutional investors and other sellers in corporate transactions in which the Finnish private equity investment company Sponsor Capital became the new majority owner by an agreement concluded on 5 October 2017. The agreement is subject to approval of the Competition Authority. The transaction accelerates StaffPoint’s growth and service development from a staffing agency to a strategic full-service HR partner.

Simmons & Simmons has advised the shareholders of Intelligent Ultrasound Limited (IUL), a University of Oxford spin-out company that develops image analysis software for ultrasound, on the disposal of the company to MedaPhor Group plc (MedaPhor), the AIM-quoted global provider of advanced ultrasound skills training simulators for medical professionals.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Phoenix Equity Partners ("Phoenix") and management on the sale of Musto to Helly Hansen, a Norwegian outdoor clothing specialist backed by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund (the "Acquisition").

Travers Smith advised Phoenix on its original acquisition of Musto in 2007 and has advised the company and its shareholders since.

TLT has worked with the management of its long-standing client Bart Ingredients on the sale of the Bristol-based spice giant to Germany's largest spice producer, Fuchs Group.

The acquisition provides an exit for the private equity firm Langholm Capital, which backed a management buy-out of Bart Ingredients in 2010.

A multidisciplinary team from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have advised on the sale of Retirement Villages Group, the UK’s largest retirement village operator with 14 active communities and a pipeline of developments. The buyers were AxA, the French institutional investment group (which will operate the village developments) and the UK’s largest care home operator, HC-One Limited (which will operate the regulated care home business).

RTPR Allen & Overy has advised private equity fund ADM Capital on the sale of Brikston Construction Solutions S.A. (previously Ceramica S.A.) to the Austrian group Wienerberger. The transaction is subject to approval by the Competition Council.

Brikston Construction Solutions S.A. is one of the major players on the masonry and finishing materials market in Romania, with over 200 employees in the factory in Iasi.

National law firm Shoosmiths has advised on the sale and employee buy-out of Photonic Solutions, a supplier of world-leading laser and photonic equipment.

The acquisition of the Edinburgh-based business involved eight of the company's senior employees and was made with support by leading equity investor Panoramic Growth Equity ("Panoramic").

The group holding company for P2C Investissements SA has sold the entirety of its shareholding in Solutions 30, a European leader in new-technology solutions. This disposal formed part of a private placement by way of an accelerated book building of a block of 4,700,000 shares (accounting for 19.7% of the share capital).

The Clifford Chance team advising P2C Investissements was led by Aline Cardin, Partner, assisted by Olivier Plessis, senior associate, and Clément Delaruelle, associate.