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Nutter Represents Beyonic, Inc. in its Acquisition by MFS Africa Limited
Print PDFNutter served as legal counsel to Beyonic, Inc., a digital payments management provider of business services for SMEs, fintechs, and social impact entities across Africa, in its acquisition by MFS Africa Limited, Africa’s largest digital payments hub. Jeremy Halpern, a partner in Nutter’s Corporate and Transactions Department, led the deal team, which included Josh Gray, Meghan Kelly, Ellie Myers, and Matt Doring on corporate matters; Laura Marsell and Chris McLoon on tax matters; and Derek Roller and Liza Hadley on intellectual property matters.
MFS Africa – Africa’s largest digital payments hub – connects more than 200 million mobile wallets on the continent through one API. Beyonic focusses on domestic payments and collections coupled with secure front-end business functionality. The transaction will provide the growing micro, small, and medium enterprise segment across Africa with the ability to manage digital transactions with individuals and businesses around the world. More information on the transaction.
Nutter’s Corporate and Transactions Department represents domestic and international corporations, publicly traded and privately-held companies, private equity firms, nonprofit institutions, and family-owned businesses in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. The firm’s attorneys advise on significant transactions in every major industry sector, including manufacturing, high technology, life sciences, banking, professional services, real estate, energy, medical devices, and health care. Nutter’s corporate law practice handles the full range of M&A and private equity transactions, including representing buyers and sellers in auctions and bid processes, mergers, asset sales, stock purchases, leveraged buyouts, roll-ups, joint ventures, PIPEs, going private transactions, exchanges of securities, friendly and hostile tender offers, proxy contests, and acquisitions.
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