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Affinia Group, including its global filtration operations, but excluding its Affinia South America (ASA) operations, will be sold to MANN+HUMMEL.
Based in Ludwigsburg, Germany, MANN+HUMMEL is a privately-held global filtration expert offering filtration solutions to original equipment and aftermarket customers in both the automotive and industrial sectors.
"Our agreement with MANN+HUMMEL continues us along a path that has guided us for 75 years – a commitment to innovative solutions and high-quality filtration products," says Keith Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Affinia Group. "We are excited to align our technologies and capabilities to provide our customers, employees and
Noerr has advised publisher Verlagsgruppe Passau on the sale of its Czech publishing business to the financial investor Penta.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the volume of the transaction. The sale still requires the clearance of the Czech antitrust authorities. The transaction includes all shares in the Prague-based Vltava-Labe-Press, as (VLP) as well as its subsidiaries and shareholdings in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. VLP publishes “Denik” , one of the best-known newspapers in the Czech Republic, as well as numerous magazines via its subsidiaries, including the Czech edition of “National Geographic”.
With activities in Germany, Poland
Private equity firm Gryphon Investors is to sell its portfolio company Trinity Consultants to an affiliate of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Trinity, which Gryphon acquired in partnership with management in 2011, is a leading environmental consulting firm which specialises in providing air quality compliance and permitting services to its private sector clients across 48 offices in the US, Canada, China, the Middle East and the UK. The Company also provides other high value environmental consulting services related to environmental health & safety (EHS) performance and risk management, occupational health and toxicology, and
Deutsche Telekom AG has entered into an agreement on the sale of the online platform t-online.de and the digital marketer InteractiveMedia CCSP to Ströer SE.
The transaction is to be carried out by way of a capital increase of Ströer against in-kind contributions of the two entities.
In this transaction Deutsche Telekom AG has relied on the advice of Noerr, Gleiss Lutz and Hogan Lovells. While Noerr was responsible for IT/multimedia and internet law, Hogan Lovells took care of IP/trademark law including related antitrust law issues, and Gleiss Lutz of corporate/M&A, employment and tax.
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Symantec Corp is to sell its information management business, known as Veritas, to an investor group led by The Carlyle Group together with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and other expected co-investors, for USD8 billion in cash.
The transaction, which was unanimously approved by Symantec's Board of Directors, is expected to close by 1 January, 2016.
Upon closing of the transaction, Symantec expects to receive approximately USD6.3 billion in net cash proceeds, subject to certain customary post-closing adjustments. Symantec will take a comprehensive and disciplined approach to capital deployment focused on both returning capital to shareholders and investing in
The EU Commission has confirmed its continued endorsement of Guernsey as a cooperative jurisdiction following a meeting between officials in Brussels.
This news was welcomed in Guernsey, which has a strong record in meeting international standards as a cooperative and highly transparent jurisdiction – including as an 'early adopter' of the Common Reporting Standards ahead of some European countries.
Responding to the news, Guernsey’s Chief Minister, Jonathan Le Tocq, has written to European Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, stating: “Guernsey welcomes the Commission’s confirmation at the meeting that it considers Guernsey to be a cooperative jurisdiction. This recognises not only
HIG Europe has completed the sale of its portfolio company AR Metallizing (ARM) to Nissha Printing Co.
ARM is the global market leader in the manufacturing of metallised paper for use in the food, beverage and consumer packaging goods industries. ARM serves its customer base from three manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Italy and the USA.
HIG acquired ARM in September 2012 and shortly thereafter the assets of Vacumet Paper (the US market leader) were acquired to create the global market leading manufacturer of metallized paper. Since acquisition, HIG and the founding ARM shareholders have assisted with the integration of
Ogier has acted for VSA Capital Limited in its role as financial adviser to Digital Train and its parent, NetDragon Websoft, in connection a GBP84.1 million recommended cash offer for Promethean World, a company listed on London Stock Exchange.
Promethean World is in the global education technology market with significant sales in North America and Western Europe of front-of-class interactive display. NetDragon Websoft is a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands whose shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is a leading online game and mobile internet platform developer and operator in the PRC. In recent years, NetDragon
Bermuda remains fully committed to the process of qualifying under rules set out by the European Union for third-country rights for Island-based alternative fund managers.
The European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) last week cleared the way for Guernsey, Jersey and Switzerland (pending passage of legislation by the latter) to be approved for extension of "passport" rights that would allow non-European Union fund managers to market their Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in EU member states on a cross-border basis. The recommendation would extend the same rights to approved non-EU entities that are currently available only to EU-based AIF managers (AIFMs).
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