Vivendi has sold 10% of the share capital of Universal Music Group (UMG) to a Tencent-led consortium based on an enterprise value of €30 billion for 100%. The consortium has an option to acquire, on the same valuation basis, an additional amount of up to 10% of UMG until January 15,2021. The consortium is led

Tru Kids Inc, the US-based parent company of Toys“R”Us® and Babies“R”Us®, and Hobby Warehouse Pty Ltd in Australia today announced an exclusive licensing agreement which will see the Toys“R”Us® and Babies“R”Us® brands return to Australia and make their debut in New Zealand. The new license agreement, effective today, includes rights for Hobby Warehouse to sell

The Terra Alliance held its 35th international M&A conference on the 25th and 26th of April in Madrid, hosted by the Spanish member firm, Sabadell Corporate Finance. Over 30 delegates, representing 16 member firms from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, benefitted from sharing cross-border M&A opportunities, local market insight and emerging global sector

In February 2019, Worms Safety successfully completed its acquisition of Qualspec Group, an Australia-headquartered testing, inspection and audit company, with main operations in China Pickering Pacific acted as exclusive financial advisor to Worms Safety on this transaction. Worms Safety is a global alliance of quality management specialists in specific product categories that enables customers to

A key player in the raw, ready-to-eat vegetable sector in Europe with the Florette brand, Agrial’s Fresh Produce division is consolidating its UK presence by securing procurement of raw materials and is ceding its Swiss and Italian activity to the Spanish agri-food group GAC (Grupo Alimentario Citrus). The threefold growth of the Créaline factory additionally

Terra Alliance is pleased to announce that: › for 2018, its 16 firms completed more than 100 transactions with a combined value of more than US$11 billion, a 64% increase on the combined value of transactions completed for 2017; and › for the five years to December 2018, its 16 firms completed more than 490

Sabadell Corporate Finance is pleased to announce it has advised the sale of a 50% shareholding stake in 2 wind farms with an installed capacity of 53 MW located in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera. This transaction demonstrates the strong interest from Spanish investors in the renewable energy sector and its importance within the

Sabadell Corporate Finance is pleased to announce it has advised the sale of 100% of a photovoltaic portfolio with an installed capacity of 4 MW, including 3 plants located in Granada, Malaga and Cordoba in operations since 2008. All 3 PV plants are equipped with a 2-way mobile axis. The PV plants of Las Palomas

Sabadell Corporate Finance has exclusively advised the shareholders of Millan Vicente on the 100% sale of the company to the Dutch dairy group Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. Millan Vicente is one of the leading Spanish cheese co-packing and distribution companies based in Zaragoza. The company was founded in 1995 by its current CEO Antonio Millan and

The Quercus team, led by Mark Whelan and Neil Giles, advised the Board of Environmental Resource Group (“ERG”), on the sale of the business to specialist waste and recycling company, Red Industries (“Red”), supported by a £39m funding package from BGF and HSBC. ERG is one of the UK’s largest privately owned hazardous and non-hazardous

Sabadell Corporate Finance has exclusively advised the investment fund NK5 on the 100% sale of Grupo Valenciana de Aluminio Baux to the US-based Jupiter Aluminum Corporation. Baux is a Spain-based industrial group that produces hot-cold-rolled and coated aluminium coils from 100% recycled materials. The Group is composed by Compañía Valenciana de Aluminio and Bancolor Baux,