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Harbottle & Lewis has advised Hilary Bevan Jones, a renowned British TV producer, on the sale of a 51% interest in Endor Productions to Red Arrow Entertainment, a company wholly owned by Pro Sieben.Sat1 GmbH, the second largest media company in Europe.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised social media monitoring company, Brandwatch, on its $6 million investment led by Nauta Capital.

Venture capital firm, PROfounders Capital, has joined forces with easyCar to introduce the Car Club to the UK in 2012. Harbottle & Lewis advised PROfounders Capital on the legal aspects of the project.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised Runa Capital, a global venture capital firm with offices in Moscow, Russia and Berlin, in connection with its investment in ThinkGrid, a platform vendor enabling the IT channel such as Value Added Distributors, MSPs and Value Added Resellers (VARs) to become cloud service providers.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised Redkite Financial Markets, a specialist in real-time financial markets surveillance solutions, on their Series A investment from leading European venture firm, DFJ Esprit.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised Clare Birks and Caroline Hawkins, the management of award-winning Oxford Scientific Films, in relation to their role in the acquisition of its production business in a deal with Boomerang Plus plc.

Harbottle & Lewis, have advised Fiery Dragons Limited in connection with its much publicised fundraising by means of a placing of shares with high net-worth and sophisticated investors.

Harbottle & Lewis elects Chloe Wright and David Scott to its partnership and promotes Paul Groves and Eleanor Porter (née Scholey) to Senior Associate. The promotions take effect on 1 June 2011.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised early-stage video production company Aframe in relation to its £2 million fundraising to continue its expansion plans and technological development.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised PROfounders Capital in relation to the £1m Series A funding round in CitySocialising, the UK's leading Online2Offline subscription-based "socialising network" for outgoing urbanites to meet new friends.

Harbottle & Lewis advised social media monitoring company Brandwatch on an investment from Durrants, the UK's leading media intelligence business.

Media and entertainment lawyers, Harbottle & Lewis, have advised goodypass.com, the online business launched by breakfast TV star Kate Garraway, on its seed round of investment from Kite Ventures.

Harbottle & Lewis has advised the management team of digital media agency Atticmedia in relation to their acquisition of the business from the BDP Group.

Advised interactive gaming company, Zattikka, in relation to its $5.5m investment through its parent company Expedite 5, Inc