NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) agreed to acquire Northgate Public Services Limited from Cinven Limited for approximately £480 million on January 9, 2018. Northgate Public Services Limited reported sales of £163.5 million for year ending April 2017. Completion of the transaction is expected by the end of January 2018. DC Advisory and KPMG acted as financial advisors, Adrian Maguire, Victoria Sigeti, Chris Davis and Helen Lethaby of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted as legal advisors, Deloitte acted as accountant and OC&C acted as commercial due diligence provider to Cinven. Stephen Drewitt, Adam Campbell, Sherrine Hashish, Peter Abbott and Shaul Steinberg of Macfarlanes acted as legal advisors for the management of Northgate Public Services Limited. Stephen Beattie, Christopher Best, Christopher Bew, Imogen Bishop, David Bothwell, Charlie Bowden, Ailise Boyle, Gemma Boyle, Joel Catterall, Christopher Colman, Fergal Coney, Gemma Coulter, Karl Craig, Chris Crawford, Tom Dean, Catherine Fearon, Jessica Ferrari-Wells, Adrian Fong, Orla Fox, Lisa Gao, Ciara Girvan, Disha Gulati, John Haigney, Charles Hansom, Darren Hanwell, Rachel Healey, Hugh Hobhouse, Michael Horrocks, Christa Hotton, Danielle Hyde, Osamu Ito, Ed Jackson, Philip Jarvis, Aaron Kenavan, Willoughby Knight, Ondrej Kramolis, Jacqueline Lau, Stephen Lloyd, Dominic Long, Stephen Mathews, Alexander McKerrow, Sinead McPhillips, Gordon Milne, Gilbert Musanhu, Karishma Naravane, Yuki Ojima, Olena Prusenkova, Joseph Rafferty, Peter Rowley, Benjamin Scrace, Amanda Seethor, William Stevenson, Robert Thompson, Matthew Townsend, Emily Turnbull, Steven Verschoot, Nick Wall, Jocelyn Wang, and Emma Waters of Allen & Overy LLP acted as legal advisors to NEC Corporation. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities acted as financial advisor to NEC Corporation.