We advise on the full range of M&A deals, whether private company share or asset acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures or takeovers and take privates of publicly quoted companies.

We focus on transactions in specific industry sectors including media, technology, real estate, leisure and retail, enabling the team to provide legal advice in the context of a deep understanding of the commercial dynamics affecting our clients and their industries. Our passion for this sector focus is complemented by our market leading commercial and real estate teams who provide an added dimension to assist our clients in fulfilling their goals.

We act for a vast spectrum of clients, including entrepreneurs, SMEs, large multinational corporations and banks and other financial institutions. Many of our M&A transactions involve a cross-border element where we work with our international offices and network of best friend firms.

Our M&A team also includes specialist Equity Capital Markets, Private Equity and Venture Capital practices who work alongside our highly regarded Acquisition Finance, Competition, Tax, Employee Incentives, Regulatory, Employment and Pensions teams so as to provide our clients with a genuine full-service M&A offering.

• Advised dnata World Travel, the Dubai Government owned travel business (sister company to Emirates) on the acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Travel Technology Investments Limited, the holding company of online travel business Travel Republic.

• Advised the shareholders of Hunter Boot Limited, the world's leading Wellington boot brand, in relation to its sale of a majority stake to funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners.



• Advised private equity house, Lyceum Capital, on its acquisition of Clearswift Systems Limited, a global digital security software provider.



• Advised ISIS EP LLP on its investment in DiGiCo, a designer and manufacturer of digital mixing consoles that are sold globally into the live music, theatres and houses of worship markets.



• Advised long-standing Berlin based client GSW, a listed real estate corporation, on the purchase of the Pegasus-Portfolio, a residential real estate portfolio of 4,800 apartments mainly in Berlin for €330 million from the Gagfah group.



• Advised CNH Bidco Limited, a MBO vehicle backed by private equity funds managed by HarbourVest Partners, on its £34.8 million recommended public offer for Parseq PLC, the AIM quoted end to end service provider in payments, applications processing and data analytics.



• Advised Photon Group Limited on the sale of its Field Marketing & Retail Agencies division to Navis Capital Partners, an Australian private equity firm, for a cash consideration of AUS$146.5 million.



• Advised OFI Private Equity Capital, a French investment company listed on NYSE Euronext Paris, in respect of a tender offer on all of its publicly held shares and share warrants made by Eurazeo, a European Euronext-listed investment company.



• Advised AIM quoted Sierra Rutile Limited on the takeover offer made by Pala Minerals Limited, a subsidiary of Pala Investments Holdings Limited, valuing Sierra Rutile Limited at approximately £155.6 million.



• Advised PG Media Services Limited, a UK subsidiary of global advertising and marketing services firm Publicis Groupe S.A., on the acquisition of Schwartz Communications Inc, a full service PR agency in US, Sweden and UK.

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Advising Dundee Realty Corporation and Dundee International Real Estate Investment Trust on the acquisition of an ownership interest in a total of 292 properties located across Germany and let to Deutsche Post from Lone Star. The units of the REIT and convertible debentures issued by the REIT were admitted to trading at the Toronto Stock Exchange.



• Advised the shareholders of eConversions Limited, operator of discount shopping website vouchercodes.co.uk and its sister website gutschein-codes.de, in relation to the sale of the company to a UK subsidiary of Whale Shark Media, Inc. for $46 million.



• Advised the founder shareholders of Autifony Therapeutics Limited ("ATL") and ATL, a newly-established biotechnology company, in relation to the acquisition of certain clinical assets from GlaxoSmithKline; the Series A fundraising carried out by ATL raising £10.4 million from a syndicate of leading life science investors; and the related shareholder arrangements between the founder shareholders, GlaxoSmithKline and the new institutional investors.



• Advised Attenda Group Holdings Limited in relation to the management buy-out of Attenda Limited funded by Darwin Private Equity, structured as a s110 liquidation.



• Advised euNetworks Group Limited in relation to its acquisition of 100% of the shares in Munich based network solutions provider TeraGate AG Storage Optical Network from EGORA Holding GmbH, DB Industrial Holdings Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG and individual shareholders.



• Advised BBC Worldwide on a combined sale and licensing deal with a special purpose vehicle backed by Exponent Private Equity in relation to BBC Worldwide's consumer magazine business.

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Advised F&C REIT in relation to the sale of the St. Katharine's Dock estate to a partnership between the Max Property Group and a South African family trust for approximately £160 million.

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Advised the shareholders of Wardrobe Holdings Limited on the sale of Wardrobe Court EC4 (a residential investment property in the heart of the City of London) to The British Land Company plc for approximately £57 million.



• Advised Shine, the TV production company, on its acquisition of social media and gaming start up, Bossa Studios Limited and associated new shareholders' arrangements.



• Advised Bloomsbury Publishing plc, a leading independent publishing house, on the acquisition of The Continuum International Publishing Group Limited, the international academic and professional publisher from Nova/Paul Investments Capital and management shareholders.



• Advised Zodiak Media Limited, creators, producers and distributors of content for TV, radio, new media and cinema, on the purchase of the entire issued share capital of Bwark Productions Limited, the independent producer of award winning series The Inbetweeners.



• Advised Reed Business Information Limited in relation to the sale of the business and assets of the subscription and publishing services bureaux, Quadrant Subscription Services, to Air Business Limited.



• Advised Encore Tickets Limited, the UK's largest independent theatre (and other attractions) ticket distributor and retailer, on the purchase of the entire issued share capital of West End Theatre Bookings Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holidaybreak plc.

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Advised NVIDIA Corporation, a world-leading technology company, in relation to the UK and French aspects of its acquisition of Icera, Inc for US$367 million.



• Advised Hakkasan, the restaurant group, in relation to its acquisition of Cha Cha No Hana Limited, the owner and operator of the high end Japanese restaurant Sake No Hana.

• Advised Argonon Limited, the newly incorporated holding company of the Leopard Films group, in relation to its acquisition of Remedy Productions Limited, an independent TV production company based in London and Canada.

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Advised euNetworks Group Limited on the acquisition of the entire shares in LambaNet Communications Deutschland AG, a leading provider of telecommunication and internet services.



• Advised Elisabeth Murdoch and certain other shareholders of Shine Limited (and Shine itself) on the sale of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Shine to NC Shine Acquisition Limited, a subsidiary of News Corporation, for £293 million.



• Advised Main Market listed Cineworld Group plc on the acquisition of Cinesur Circuito Sánchez-Ramade, S.L., the fifth largest cinema operator in Spain and the largest in the Andalucia region.



• Advised the shareholders of ODS-Petrodata (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of market intelligence, data, publications and analysis tools to the energy sector, on the sale of ODS-Petrodata to IHS Global Limited, a subsidiary of NYSE listed IHS Inc.



• Advised M&C Saatchi, the AIM quoted advertising and marketing group, on its acquisition of a 25% shareholding in Human Digital from Christian Gladwell and Sarah Ward and on related joint venture arrangements.



• Advised OFI Private Equity Capital, a French investment company listed on NYSE Euronext Paris, in relation to the sale of its entire issued share capital to Eurazeo, a European investment company listed on NYSE Euronext.



• Advised Red Arrow Entertainment Group on its acquisition of 51% of Mob Film Holdings Limited, an independent TV production company based in London, Manchester and Los Angeles, and run by partners Vadim Jean, Ian Sharples and John Brocklehurst.



• Advised Peakside and its joint venture and asset management partner, WERTGRUND, on the sale of a residential portfolio of 600 units in Berlin to TAG Immobilien AG.


• Advised Activum SG Capital Management Limited on its acquisition of AOC Accent Office Center in Frankfurt from a company ultimately owned by Whitehall (Goldman Sachs) and Cerberus.