- Olswang has advised mobile services company iTouch’s global management team on its $100m (£51m) management buy-out of iTouch Holdings from Japanese entertainment company For-side.com. Corporate partners Mark Bertram and Stephen Hermer led the team at Olswang. Simmons & Simmons corporate partner Jason Daniel advised For-side.
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partners James Wood (London) and Matthew Herman (New York) led a team advising MACH, the clearing and settlement partner for mobile transactions, on its merger with CB Holdings. Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson Washington corporate partner Andrew Varney advised CB Holdings.
