Latest deals data from across the region Ella’s Kitchen Group


Acquisition of Capri Foods


Completion Date: 13/02/2012 Target: Capri Foods Acquirer: Buyin team Deal Value: Undisclosed


Details: HMT Corporate Finance, led by partner Andrew Thomson and associate directors Puneet Bhatia and Holly Bedford, advised a buyin team on the acquisition of Capri Foods, a manufacturer and supplier of high quality frozen pizzas and crusts to the UK catering and wholesale markets


Corporate Finance Advisers: HMT Corporate Finance Legal Advisers: Burrows


Completion Date: 29/02/2012


Details: HSBC has provided Ella’s with an invoice discounting facility & RCF to fund export-led growth Funding: HSBC (Scott Kenward & Bruce McKoen)


Legal Advisers: Davenport Lyons (client) & Pinsent Mason (bank)


deals update 37 Harsco


Deal Value: Undisclosed


Details: Mundays LLP advised UK-based green technology company, Equinox on entering into a strategic technology alliance by way of an exclusive agreement with Harsco, a worldwide industrial solutions company. Equinox specialises in providing environmental solutions and the development of technology for the treatment of significant industrial waste streams and industrial waste water. Phil Walton and Julian Harvey led the Mundays team


Legal Advisers: Mundays acted for Equinox Naming rights Rebound Group Technology Holdings


Completion Date: 27/02/2012 Target: Easby Holdings Acquirer: Rebound Technology Group Holdings Deal Value: Not disclosed


Acquisition by Six Degrees Group of Ultraspeed


Completion Date: 21/02/2012 Target: Ultraspeed Acquirer: Six Degrees Technology Group Deal Value: Undisclosed


Details: HMT advised Six Degrees, the managed data services provider, on its acquisition of Ultraspeed Limited, a managed hosting business based in London


Funding: Penta Capital, Clydesdale Bank Legal Advisers: Squire Sanders Financial Due Dilligence: HMT Corporate Finance


Details: HSBC has provided Rebound with an integrated acquisition & working finance solution in the form of invoice discounting & RCF facility. This is a global transaction provided by HSBC in the UK, Hong Kong & Germany/Switzerland. Facilitating the sale and purchase of Easby Holdings, the holding company Easby Electronics, specialising in the supply of passive electrical components, capacitors, connectors, relays, resistors and semiconductors


Funding: HSBC (Scott Kenward & Bruce McKoen)


Legal Advisers: Manches (client) & Pinsent Mason (bank) Thomas Eggar LLP for the purchaser Corporate Due Dilligence: KPMG


Completion Date: 27/02/2012 Target: Naming rights of Rosebowl cricket ground Acquirer: Ageas (UK) Deal Value: Undisclosed


Details: Paris Smith LLP advised Rose Bowl Plc in connection with the naming rights of the Ageas Bowl, home of Hampshire Cricket


Legal Advisers: Crispin Dick, Paris Smith Next Deadline


The next Deals Update will appear in our May 2012 issue


Deadline for submissions is Monday Apr 16


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law


Blandy & Blandy stage mock employment tribunal


Thames Valley based law firm Blandy & Blandy is staging a mock employment tribunal at the University of Reading on Wednesday April 18 which will focus on employment status and will demonstrate how a tribunal works in practice.


While the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 have introduced new rights and obligations in relation to many non-permanent workers, the use of ‘temps’, casual staff and contractors continues to be popular. It is crucial that companies understand the often blurred line between worker and employee and the employment rights that such workers enjoy. Without careful and continuous monitoring, companies can find themselves embroiled in complex employment claims, presented against them by temporary workers alleging that they


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are, in reality, employees with wider reaching employment protection.


Blandy & Blandy’s employment team has an excellent reputation for advising organisations in the private and public sectors on avoiding tribunal claims, dealing with them if they do arise, restructuring and TUPE matters. Independent guides to the legal profession state the advice the team gives is “highly rated” adding "their attention to detail is outstanding". The team is also extremely well regarded for its advocacy skills before tribunals and courts.


Sue Dowling, partner and head of the employment team at Blandy & Blandy, said: “Companies which use temporary workers but have not recently reviewed the issues and complexities that can arise in


relation to employment status and the potential rights of the people they are engaging should attend the mock tribunal. As well as covering tribunal practices and procedures, the event will involve guidance on how to protect against employment claims in the first place.


"Last year’s mock tribunal was very successful with many people learning how an employment tribunal works in practice and the necessary steps to consider before claims arise. I hope this year will be just as successful. I would also like to thank the University of Reading for allowing us to use their premises for this event.”


The mock tribunal is free to attend and will take place at the University of Reading on Wednesday April 18 starting at 8.45am and finishing at 1pm. Places are limited and last year’s event was fully booked so to reserve a place please email the name, position, and contact details of those who would like to attend to events@blandy.co.uk putting Mock Tribunal in the subject line.


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