Ashurst corporate partners Richard Gubbins and Robert Ogilvy Watson advised on the £106.8m acquisition by electronics and security systems specialist The Laird Group of mobile phone antenna maker Centurion Wireless Technologies. Steven Kirshenbaum, a corporate partner at Proskauer Rose, advised Laird on US law. Kirkland & Ellis corporate partner Michael Movsovich acted for Centurion.

DLA has advised Armworth House, a subsidiary of Channel Hotels and Properties, on its acquisition of Property Acquisition and Management, a property investment company, with corporate partner Robert Bishop leading the team. Corporate partner William Saunders of Stephenson Harwood advised the vendor.