International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised Miniclip, a leading developer and publisher of mobile games, on its acquisition of award-winning games developer, FuturLab Miniclip is a global leader in digital games. The company develops, publishes and distributes highly engaging games to an audience of over 400 million players each...

Following completion of the triple acquisition of DesignStudio, Analog and Pixel Artworks, Waterland Private Equity has launched the Further Group - a new end-to-end creative group, offering a comprehensive suite of services spanning branding, content and experiences. Further’s current clients include blue-chip, mid-market and government organisations diversified across tech, fashion...

ProSiebenSat.1 Commerce wants to increase its stake of 23 per cent to 75 per cent. The transaction is subject to approval from the German Federal Cartel Office. The Osborne Clarke team that advised on the takeover was led by Partner Nicolas Gabrysch who was assisted by Rudolf Hübner, Lisa Jentschura...

Tristan Capital Partners, a Real Estate company based in London, through the EPIO 3 fund has acquired from the French company Altarea Cogedim the companies owning four shopping centers, Le Due Valli and La Cittadella in Piedmont, Casetta Mattei in Rome and Ibleo in Sicily. The value of the transaction...

On 4 December 2014, Law 31/2014 which modifies the Spanish Companies Act in matters of corporate governance was published in the Official Spanish Gazette. Changes to the text suggested by the different parliamentary groups were not approved and as a result the text submitted by the Spanish House of Commons...

In this issue: Data protection and IP update : Adoption of EU data protection regulation likely in 2015 Amendment of the Belgian Data Protection Act Book XI of the Belgian code of economic law Employment law update : Termination of part-time employees Look forward: Michel I Social elections in May...