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Gide has advised Rivadis Group, which specialises in cosmetics, on the sale to L'Oréal of the Société Thermes de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, which operates the Saint-Gervais-les-Bains spa establishment as part of a public service delegation contract, and of its cosmetics and skincare production and commercialisation business, under the brand name Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc.
For 20 years, the Rivadis Group has created and developed a range of cosmetics integrating thermal spring water.
This transaction is part of a corporate strategy to reposition the group and to concentrate its resources on the development of its own brands, Rivadouce, Auriège and Milton.
Gide’s team
Noerr is advising ISS Facility Holding Services, subsidiary of the listed Danish company ISS, on its acquisition of EVANTEC from Luxemburg private equity fund palero invest.
ISS was the successful bidder in a structured auction process.
ISS is relying on a Noerr team led by the Berlin corporate partner Christoph Spiering.
The ISS Group, a facility services provider with sales of EUR10.66 billion, is taking over a company specialising in facility management services in the German energy industry. With a workforce of some 800, the former E.ON subsidiary EVANTEC offers its customers, which include key power plant operators,
Independent investment bank Zeus Capital has appointed Rachel Birkett as research analyst in its Manchester office.
Birkett, who is a qualified chartered accountant, joins from Brown Shipley where she spent two years as a company analyst and fund manager. In this role, Birkett researched the consumer discretionary sector of the FTSE350 to identify trends and support investment cases, as well as managing a concentrated portfolio of GBP90 million fixed income investments.
Birkett also worked for three years as an audit assistant manager at business advisory firm Deloitte, covering field managing statutory audits across a range of industry sectors. Having
A consortium comprising the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Singapore’s Changi Airports International (CAI) and Russia’s Basic Element is to acquire Vladivostok International Airport in Russia’s Far East from Sheremetyevo International Airport.
Upon regulatory and corporate approvals, the consortium will own 100 per cent of JSC Terminal Vladivostok which owns and operates the airport terminal building, and 52.16 per cent of JSC International Airport Vladivostok which holds the airport license.
RDIF, CAI and Basic Element each hold an equal interest of 33.3 per cent.
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the RDIF, says: “We have been working diligently and have
ORI Healthcare Fund has led a USD100 million series C investment in Kymab Group, a UK Cambridge-based company focusing on generating antibodies to treat challenging diseases based on the proprietary Kymouse antibody platform.
ORI Fund is the lead investor in the series; other investors include Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical, Malin Corporation, CF Woodford Equity Income Fund and Woodford Patient Capital.
Kymab's Kymouse platform contains the entire repertoire of human antibodies. The platform has the capability to discover antibodies that are difficult to develop and produce as it naturally matures these molecules to highly
Law firm Noerr is adding a team of 11 DJBW lawyers including three partners and an of counsel to its Warsaw office, effective 1 January 2017.
DJBW is an independent Polish law firm founded by ex-White & Case managing partner Witold Daniłowicz and former White & Case partner Witold Jurcewicz, together with Radoslaw Biedecki and Ludomir Biedecki.
DJBW is a recognised transactional and corporate brand on the Polish legal market, servicing domestic and international clients from various sectors.
Noerr has operated in Poland since the 1990s and has built a strong regional advisory force in Central Eastern Europe,
Global law firm Dechert has advised Mid Europa Partners on its acquisition of Profi Rom Food, the largest supermarket chain in Romania, from Polish Enterprise Fund VI.
This is the largest deal ever completed by a private equity fund in Romania and the largest retail deal in the country’s history.
Profi is a modern retail network with the widest geographical spread in Romania. It operates from almost 500 stores and had sales of EUR800 million in 2016.
Profi is one of the top employers in Romania with nearly 11,000 employees.
The Dechert team, co-led by John
The online investment platform, SyndicateRoom, which allows individuals to invest alongside the professionals, has published its study ‘Rise of the Growth Hunters’.
Seed-stage investment company ZEAL Investments has partnered with MassChallenge UK, a start-up accelerator.
The partnership gives ZEAL Investments the opportunity to plug itself into the vast array of start-up companies involved in MassChallenge’s accelerator programme.
James Oakes, director of ZEAL Investments, says: “With only 5 per cent of the USD250 billion lottery market currently played online, there is a huge opportunity for the industry to fully digitise and become a relevant part of peoples’ online and mobile lives.”
Christine Thoma, head of strategy at ZEAL Investments, added: “Our partnership with MassChallenge UK will help us to identify start-ups
ArangoDB has secured a EUR2.2 million investment led by Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners.
ArangoDB develops the open-source NoSQL database ArangoDB, which combines three major data models (graph, key/value, JSON-documents) in one database and one query language.
ArangoDB’s product allows start-ups and enterprises to speed up their innovation cycles, simplify their technology stack and increase on-time and on-budget delivery of software projects.
Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO, says: “The previous funding round allowed us to build a rock-solid product and with this additional investment we can further accelerate our growth and expand internationally.”
Kurt Müller, partner
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