Deal Digest – March, April, May 2026

Whether a corporate, investor, financial institution or other stakeholder, Baker McKenzie advises clients on complex legal and commercial issues to maximize deal certainty and secure the intended value of transactions. Significant deals that Baker McKenzie lawyers have handled over the past several months include:

Arise Digital Technology - Advised the mandated lead arrangers and original lenders on an acquisition financing of up to USD 2.3 billion to acquire a 24.95% stake in True Corporation. Lead lawyers: Emmanuel Hadjidakis and Andrea Ng from Singapore. Find out more about the deal here.

Bayer - Advising Bayer on its acquisition of Perfuse Therapeutics with a total potential value of up to USD 2.45 billion. Lead lawyers: Alan Zoccolillo; Oren Livne and Jieun Tak from New York. Find out more about this deal here.

FORVIA - Advised FORVIA on the sale of its Interiors business to Apollo based on an enterprise value of approximately USD 2 billion. Lead lawyer: Stéphane Davin (Paris). Click here to find out more.

Honeywell International - Advised Honeywell International on the international aspects of the USD 1.4 billion sale of its Productivity Solutions and Services Business to Brady Corporation. Lead lawyers: Duffy Lorenz; Gudrun Juffer; Emily Nash and Jeremy Poore from Chicago. Click here to learn more.

Iberdrola - Advised Iberdrola on the USD 4.2 billion sale of its remaining assets in Mexico to Cox. Lead lawyers: Antonio Morales (Madrid); Juanjo Corral (Madrid); Luis Fuster (Mexico City/Madrid); Jose Morán (Chicago); Lewis Popoff (Chicago); Reynaldo Vizcarra (Mexico City); Lorenzo Ruiz de Velasco (Mexico City). Learn more here.

IOI Properties Group - Advised IOI Properties Group on its approximately USD 1.9 billion acquisition of Asia Square Tower 2 in Singapore. Lead lawyers: Shirin Tang; Mark Tay and Tan En Lai from Singapore. Find our more here.

Medtronic - Advised Medtronic as global counsel on the carve-out and spin-off of its diabetes business, MiniMed Group valued at over USD 5.3 billion and listed on Nasdaq. Lead lawyers: Ben McLaughlin (Sydney), Tharani Dharmaraj (Sydney) and Phelim O'Doherty (London). Find out more here.

Resulticks Global Companies - Advised Resulticks Global Companies on its approximately USD 1.5 billion all-share acquisition by Diginex. Lead lawyers: Shirin Tang and Ting Xiao Hui from Singapore. Find our more here.

Roche - Advised a Deutsche Bank-led syndicate of 12 international banks on a USD 7.5 billion multicurrency revolving credit facility for Roche. Lead lawyers: Charlotte Rüegg and Markus Wolf from Zurich. Learn more here.

Rothermere Continuation Holdings Limited (RCHL) - Advised RCHL, parent company of Daily Mail and General Trust, on its approximately USD 1 billion cash sale of Trepp to Fitch Group. Lead lawyers: Alan Zoccolillo and Jieun Tak from New York. Find out more here.

Servier - Advised Servier on its approximately USD 2.5 billion acquisition of Day One Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Lead lawyers: Michael DeFranco, Michelle Carr and Piotr Korzynski from Chicago. Click here to find out more.

Sino Biopharmaceutical - Advised Sino Biopharm's subsidiary, Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., on an exclusive global license agreement with Sanofi S.A. for Rovadicitinib with total potential payments of up to USD 1.53 billion. Lead lawyers: Julia Schieber (Zurich); Derek Poon (Hong Kong) and Nadine Charrière (Zurich). Learn more about the deal here.