Hogan Lovells, led by Dr. Thomas Freund, a partner in Munich, has provided advice to Sparkasse Bremen AG regarding the financing of Dutch investment manager Rhein Invest’s purchase of a majority stake in German fitness company MC Shape Holding GmbH.

The shareholders of the Weber Bürsten Group, a business that specializes in the creation, manufacturing, and distribution of cutting-edge brush and cleaning systems for industrial usage, have received advice from Hogan Lovells on the partial sale of their shares to an Austrian Growth Capital Fund holding company.

Hogan Lovells provided Peninsula Capital and Multiply organization, an Abu Dhabi-based holding company that invests in and runs businesses worldwide, with advice on the agreements for the purchase of a majority stake in ISEM, a prominent European packaging organization.

The Petrofac restructuring proposal names Amy Jacks, Sally Davies, Sheena Frazer, Ben Ward, and Josh Haig as Saipem and Samsung’s counsel.

After completing its global offering and launching its H-shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), Fibocom Wireless raised $374 million in gross proceeds and reached a market valuation of $2.5 billion.

ImCheck Therapeutics and its investors received advice from Entons’ Paris office about Ipsen’s purchase of all of its share capital.

The Trustees of the Ford Hourly Paid Contributory Pension Fund and the Ford Salaried Contributory Pension Fund have received advice from Mayer Brown on two buy-ins totaling £4.6 billion in a single transaction. Over 35,000 retirees’ benefits were secured in total.

The class of 2024 broke records and exceeded expectations for post-graduate employment. Still, a new report by the National Association for Law Placement found that new lawyers’ access to jobs—particularly the most sought-after roles—varied significantly by race and ethnicity, parental education level, and disability status.

Big Law rates continued to increase, and there appears to be no slowdown yet.

Fourth quarters in Big Law are usually an offseason, but Q4 in 2025 has been buzzing so far.