Shearman & Sterling advised General Electric on the transaction concluded in order to combine its Oil & Gas - Nuovo Pignone division with Baker Hughes, which led to the creation of Baker Hughes, a GE Company. The transaction, which from an Italian tax law perspective presented some particularly complex issues, was worth approximately $32 million […]
Australian company Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. (ALL.AX) announced that it has acquired Israeli social gaming developer Plarium Global Limited for $500 million cash. The deal is expected to close before the end of this year in December; DLA Piper, who worked together with global counsel Herzog Fox & Neeman to advise Citi (sole financial adviser) on its […]
M&A specialists from Carey Olsen’s Guernsey corporate team have advised long-standing client and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)-listed Avnel Gold Mining Limited (Avnel) on its successful acquisition by TSX-listed Endeavour Mining Corporation (Endeavour) by way of a Guernsey scheme of arrangement. Endeavour, a premier intermediate gold producer focussed on assets in the West African region, has […]
Japan has been the country of innovative trends for several years and this month we learn that their investment management sphere has set out new trends. We speak with Eriko Sakata from the world’s leading law firm Linklaters, who recently played key roles in two groundbreaking transactions: the launch of the SoftBank Vision Fund and […]
The San Francisco federal court heard on Wednesday that Waymo, the self-driving subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., are asking for a payment of $2.6 billion for a single trade secret they claim was illegally acquired through an ex-employee. Uber’s attorney, Bill Carmody made the disclosure during a session between the two companies to ascertain if the […]
Private equity firm Kleoss Capital announced that they had bought a stake in one of the largest debt counselling firms in South Africa, Debt Rescue. “We are delighted to have Kleoss Capital on board. We were impressed by their methodological approach to investing and thoroughness during the due diligence phase. We look forward to the […]
Nearly seven years after the start of the court review of the exchange ratio applied to the merger of IMMOEAST and IMMOFINANZ, IMMOFINANZ has reached an agreement in principle through out-of-court negotiations with most of the claimants and the representatives appointed for the respective shareholder groups to terminate these proceedings through settlement. The agreement in […]
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