Deals: M&A 01/02/2007
Osborne Clarke corporate partner Jonathan King has advised communications software company Ubiquity Software Corporation on its £76m takeover by telecoms network company Avaya. Simmons & Simmons corporate partner Alistair Bird advised Avaya.
January 31, 2007 at 07:03 PM
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Osborne Clarke corporate partner Jonathan King has advised communications software company Ubiquity Software Corporation on its £76m takeover by telecoms network company Avaya. Simmons & Simmons corporate partner Alistair Bird advised Avaya.
Nabarro Nathanson has advised renewable energy producer Novera Energy on its agreement to acquire a 50% holding in Novera Macquarie Renewable Energy
Joint Venture from Macquarie Renewables for £30m. Corporate partner Gareth Jones led the Nabarros team. Macquarie was advised by Berwin Leighton Paisner corporate finance partner Simon Pollack.
Slaughter and May advised United Utilities on the £218m sale of its business process outsourcing subsidiary Vertex Data Science to a consortium of US private equity firms led by Oak Hill Capital Partners and including GenNx 360 and Knox Lawrence International. Corporate partner Peter Brien led the team. Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison corporate partner David Lakhdhir advised Oak Hill. Olswang corporate partner Chris Mackie advised Knox Lawrence.
Travers Smith corporate finance partner Alasdair Steele advised Empire Online and Intercontinental Online Gaming on their respective sales of their trade and gaming-related assets to PartyGaming. Olswang corporate partner Paul Blackmore advised PartyGaming.
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