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The law firm Noerr has advised Rocket Internet SE on the significant expansion of the world’s leading platform for mobile food delivery services, Global Online Takeaway Group, as well as on a further investment in the internet platform Delivery Hero.
The Noerr team advising Rocket was led by the Berlin partner Dr Sascha Leske.
In the course of Delivery Hero’s acquisition of Yemeksepeti, Turkey’s leading provider of mobile food delivery services, Rocket contributed its 11.4 per cent share in Yemeksepeti to Delivery Hero Holding GmbH and invested another EUR61.3 million in Delivery Hero. This increases Rocket’s share in Delivery Hero
Wirtualna Polska Holding (WPH), a portfolio company of private equity fund Innova Capital is now trading on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Just a few months after the purchase of the former Wirtualna Polska company by Innova Capital and o2 Group was finalised, the company has undergone a process of integration, expansion and brand enhancement, almost tripling its equity value.
“Only twelve months ago we were announcing a formal completion of the merger establishing new Wirtualna Polska Group, and today its IPO marks an estimated value of nearly one billion zloty. Credit for this huge success goes
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited (GIC) has adopted Omgeo ALERT, a web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of account and Standing Settlement Instructions (SSIs).
The firm adopted the solution to deliver further improvements in post-trade operational efficiency.
GIC wanted to enhance its enterprise trade lifecycle platform as part of a two-stage process. Phase one involved the importing of SSIs into ALERT, with a focus on fixed income instructions, in the third quarter of 2014. GIC is now embarking on the second phase of that project: loading SSIs for equity trades into ALERT. This is scheduled
Ogier has acted as BVI legal counsel on the USD76,875,000 IPO on NASDAQ of Atlantic Alliance Partnership Corp.
Atlantic Alliance Partnership Corp is a special purposes acquisition company (SPAC) formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation, contractual or control arrangement with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, or engaging in any other similar initial business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
Ogier partners Simon Schilder and Michael Killourhy acted for Atlantic Alliance Partnership Corp with New York firm Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP. Weil Gotshal &
Private equity firm GTCR has completed the previously announced sale of its portfolio company, Fundtech, to DH Corporation (TSX: DH) for cash consideration of approximately USD1.25 billion.
Headquartered in New York, Fundtech is a provider of mission-critical software that facilitates payment processing, cash management, and financial messaging products for financial institutions and corporate customers. Fundtech’s flagship next generation payment hub software provides leading money centre banks with the ability to achieve enhanced payment efficiency, cost effectiveness, visibility and compliance by operating global payment functionality through a single software instance.
In 2011, GTCR partnered with founder and CEO Reuven Ben Menachem
GrafTech International has signed a letter of intent regarding the potential sale of USD150 million of 7 per cent convertible preferred shares in a private offering to an affiliate of alternative asset manager Brookfield Asset Management (BAM).
GrafTech has also entered into a separate letter of intent for a possible tender offer by Brookfield to acquire outstanding shares of GrafTech common stock.
The first letter of intent contemplates that the convertible preferred shares would be issued in two series. One series would be immediately convertible into common shares equal to up to 19.9 per cent of the currently outstanding shares
Law firm Eversheds has advised mid-market private equity firm CBPE Capital on the sale of IDIS Group Holdings to Clinigen Group for an Enterprise Value of GBP225m.
The transaction represents a money multiple of 22x CBPE’s GBP9.4m investment in IDIS.
IDIS is the global leader in providing regulatory and ethically compliant access to unlicensed medicines for healthcare professionals and their patients with unmet medical needs.
The Eversheds team was led by Partner and head of private equity Richard Moulton, assisted by Principal Associate Louise Finnie and Associate Andy Lord. Share options advice was provided by Partner Danny Blum and Associate
Livingstone’s Industrial sector team has advised Smiths Group, a global leader in applied advanced technologies, on the disposal of Specac Limited, a scientific instrumentation accessories business.
Members of the Specac executive team have partnered with Foresight Group to acquire the company.
Specac, based in Orpington, Kent, is a leading manufacturer of high specification sample analysis systems and sample preparation equipment for use in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Environmental, Quality Control & Research laboratories around the world. The company’s products are primarily focused on supporting Infrared Spectroscopy, an important analytical technique prevalent in both research and commercial-industrial labs.
Having concluded that Specac
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Metrologic Group on its sale to French private equity fund Astorg Partners.
Metrologic, a Carlyle Group portfolio company founded in 1980 and headquartered near Grenoble in France, develops state-of-the-art 3D measurement software solutions for high precision testing by leading players in the automotive, aeronautics, industrial and a wide range of other industries. The company’s universally compatible metrology software delivers high performance solutions to around 4,000 customers in 40 countries.
This transaction demonstrates Arma Partners’ strength in European Technology M&A and outstanding track record in
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services for alternative investment funds and multinational corporations, has been authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) to act as a depositary.
Alter Domus has been issued with a Category 4b Investment Services Licence to act as a custodian in relation to the type of AIFs indicate in SLC1.03 of Part B IV of the Investment Services Rules for Investment Services Providers.
Alter Domus has launched a depositary service to support the alternative investments industry in meeting the new requirement for funds captured under the AIFM Directive to appoint an independent
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