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Travers Smith LLP has advised European leisure park operator Looping Group on its acquisition of iconic British theme park Drayton Manor.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Auto Trader Group plc (Auto Trader), the UK's largest digital automotive marketplace, on the acquisition of Blue Owl Network Limited.

Travers Smith LLP has advised S⁴Capital plc on the agreed merger of its data and programmatic media practice, MightyHive, with Orca Pacific, a market leading full-service Amazon agency and boutique consultancy firm based out of Seattle.

Travers Smith LLP has advised its long-standing, AIM-listed client, Benchmark Holdings plc on the sale of the business and assets relating to its vaccine manufacturing facility at Braintree, UK to Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult).

Travers Smith LLP has advised Investec Bank plc (Investec) on an environmental, social and governance (ESG) linked subscription facility provided to Investindustrial, one of Europe's leading independent investment groups. The facility is one of the first ESG-linked subscription lines in the European fund finance market.

Travers Smith LLP has advised the Azzurri Group and its joint administrators on its sale through administration to US investment management firm TowerBrook Capital Partners (TowerBrook).  The Azzurri Group is a market leader in the Italian casual dining sector, operating ASK Italian, Zizzi and Coco di Mama with some 300 sites across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Travers Smith LLP has advised KN Circet, an Advent International investee company, on the acquisition of ARCC Communications Limited (ARCC).

Travers Smith LLP has advised new client CGE Partners on its investment in Enhesa, the fast-growing global environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance intelligence platform. CGE is a mid-market private equity firm with a focus on attractive growth markets across Europe.

Travers Smith LLP has advised S⁴Capital plc on a very successful £116 million equity fundraising and new £39 million revolving credit facilities with Barclays, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan. The equity fundraising was priced at the highest price the shares have ever traded and was over twice oversubscribed.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client TA Associates on its acquisition of a significant minority interest in IFS, an Illinois-based global enterprise software provider, alongside EQT Funds VIII and IX on a transaction which exceeds EUR 3 billion in aggregate.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Kester Capital LLP (Kester Capital) and its portfolio company, Frontier Medical, on the sale of its Infection Prevention business in a carve-out to Vernacare, backed by H.I.G Capital.

INvolve, a global consultancy championing diversity and inclusion in business, has unveiled the EMpower Ethnic Minority Role Model Lists 2020.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Shawbrook Bank on the provision of a unitranche facility to an SPV owned by funds advised by Westbridge Fund Managers Limited (WestBridge) in relation to its investment in Bespoke Health & Social Care Limited.

Travers Smith LLP has advised S⁴Capital plc on the agreed merger of its data and programmatic media practice, MightyHive, with Lens10, a leading Australian digital strategy and analytics consultancy business.

The Chancery Lane Project (CLP) is a collaborative of lawyers working pro bono to create the legal conditions needed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. It aims to do this by creating new contract precedents and model laws to enable communities and businesses to fight climate change.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Paragon Bank plc (Paragon) on a senior debt facility provided to Liberis, a leader in alternative finance solutions.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client The Access Group on the acquisition of Eclipse Legal Systems from Capita plc.  

Travers Smith LLP has advised Willis Pension Scheme on a longevity swap transaction with Munich Re to manage longevity risk in relation to circa £1 billion of pensioner liabilities. The arrangement covers pensions in payment in the Scheme and provides long term protection for the Scheme against additional costs resulting from pensioners or their dependants living longer than expected.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client The Carlyle Group and other selling shareholders on the sale of Eggplant, the global digital test automation and monitoring software provider, to a subsidiary of Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) for $330 million.

Travers Smith has advised the management team of Inmarsat on the implementation of a new management incentive plan following the completion of a take private transaction by a four party consortium of Apax, Warburg Pincus, The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.