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April 19, 2024
Mondi Drops Pursuit Of DS Smith After Int'l Paper Deal
British packaging company Mondi officially dropped out of its running battle with International Paper to buy DS Smith on Friday after the two latter companies struck a more than $7 billion deal to join forces earlier this week.
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April 19, 2024
Energy Investor Aquila To Return £17.5M To Shareholders
Energy investment company Aquila Energy said Friday that it is planning to buy back £17.5 million ($21.7 million) worth of its shares at an approximately 65% premium to return excess capital to its shareholders.
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April 19, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen U.K. holiday resort chain Butlins target Aviva and a huddle of insurers, Meta and WhatsApp tackle a patents claim by telecommunications company Semitel, an ongoing construction dispute between Essex County Council and Balfour Beatty, and Formycon AG hit a pharmaceutical company for infringing medical products. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 19, 2024
Bank Of Cyprus Rolls Out €25M Share Buyback
Bank of Cyprus Holdings PLC on Friday launched a share buyback program worth up to €25 million ($26.6 million) aimed at lowering its outstanding share capital.
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April 19, 2024
UK Real Estate Investor Sells 65 Properties For £16M
Home REIT PLC said Friday it has sold a further 65 properties from its portfolio for £15.9 million ($19.8 million) as the troubled U.K. social housing real estate company looks to cut its debt.
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April 19, 2024
Shareholders Sell 7% Of Stock Of Fonix Mobile For £15M
Mobile payments company Fonix Mobile said Friday that a group of its shareholders have successfully sold more than 6.6 million of its shares and raised proceeds of approximately £15 million ($19 million) to "satisfy strong institutional demand."
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April 19, 2024
Schneider Electric In Early Talks With US Software Biz
French energy management giant Schneider Electric SE confirmed on Friday that it is in preliminary talks with U.S. infrastructure software group Bentley Systems Inc. over "a potential strategic transaction."
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April 18, 2024
Ex-Autonomy CEO Wanted Whistleblower Fired, Ex-GC Says
Former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch thought a finance department whistleblower was "trying to destroy the company" and wanted him fired, the software company's former U.S. general counsel testified Thursday in a criminal fraud trial over claims Lynch conned HP into buying the British company at an inflated price of $11.7 billion.
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April 18, 2024
EU Antitrust Chief Says Merger Tool Not A 'Power Grab'
The European Commission's top competition enforcer said Thursday the agency has taken a measured approach to using its newly asserted power to review mergers that fall short of local thresholds, as the European trading bloc's high court mulls a challenge of that authority from DNA sequencing company Illumina.
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April 18, 2024
Coventry Building Society Makes £780M Offer For Co-Op Bank
The Coventry Building Society is offering to buy the Co-operative Bank for £780 million ($970 million) in a move that comes after the two revealed in December that they were in exclusive talks to merge.
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April 18, 2024
Insurers Face Appeal Over Refusal To Cover Bribery Loss
A holding company took its fight for an insurance payout to the Court of Appeal on Thursday, urging justices to force its insurers to cover its claim for losses it sustained when its acquisition of a construction contractor went south due to bribery and corruption allegations.
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April 18, 2024
Royal Mail Says It Rejected £3.2B Bid By Czech Mogul's Group
The parent company of Britain's national postal carrier Royal Mail has confirmed that it rejected an approximately £3.2 billion ($4 billion) "opportunistic" bid from a European conglomerate controlled by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky.
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April 18, 2024
London SPAC's £33M Buy Of Canadian Hydrogen Biz Lingers
Blank-check company Pineapple Power said Thursday that it has not yet reached a "binding agreement" for the anticipated £33 million ($41 million) acquisition of Canadian hydrogen energy business Ilios Hydrogen Canada Ltd. that was announced in November.
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April 18, 2024
City Pushes For UK Regulators To Be Globally Competitive
A body representing U.K. financial services called Thursday for a new post-Brexit international framework to compare regulators' performance and their impact on competitiveness.
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April 18, 2024
Insurance Broker Jensten Builds £170M Acquisition War Chest
Private equity-backed insurance broker Jensten Group said Thursday it has secured £170 million ($211 million) in funding for a series of planned acquisitions.
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April 18, 2024
Kirkland, Weil-Guided Apax To Buy HR Payroll Co. For €36M
Investment group Apax Global Alpha Ltd. said Thursday that a fund it advises has agreed to buy Zellis UK Ltd., a prominent provider of payroll and HR software in the U.K. for approximately €36 million ($38.4 million), financed via one of its funds.
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April 18, 2024
Housebuilder Vistry To Return £100M To Shareholders
Vistry Group PLC on Thursday announced the take-off of an up to £100 million ($125 million) share repurchase program, progressing with its plan to return £1 billion to investors across three years.
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April 18, 2024
Hipgnosis Agrees To $1.4B Takeover By US Rival Concord
Concord Chorus has agreed to buy its British music royalties rival Hipgnosis Songs Fund in an all-cash transaction worth $1.4 billion, as the U.S. company looks to add 1.2 million more songs to its portfolio, the companies said in joint statement Thursday.
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April 17, 2024
Ex-JPMorgan Analyst Liked 'Winding Up' Autonomy CEO, Jury Told
A former JPMorgan stock analyst testifying Wednesday in the criminal fraud trial of former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch said that he "took pleasure in winding up Lynch" and once even used a Hitler analogy to describe his performance, but said his critical coverage was never personal.
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April 17, 2024
Royal Mail Rejects Takeover Approach From Czech Billionaire
A European conglomerate owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky said Wednesday that the parent company of Royal Mail has rejected its offer to take over Britain's national postal service.
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April 17, 2024
Agronomics Meat Unit Taps Investors For €40M Capital Raise
Lab-grown meat company Agronomics said on Wednesday that its portfolio company Mosa Meat BV, a producer of alternatives to conventional beef, has raised €40 million ($42.5 million) in new capital to invest in the business.
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April 17, 2024
Standards Setter Proposes Steps To Boost Non-Bank Liquidity
A global standards setter proposed on Wednesday new measures to enable non-bank financial firms such as hedge funds or insurers to better support their derivatives or securities positions in stressed markets.
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April 17, 2024
Public Property Invest To Float In Oslo In $162M IPO
Norwegian commercial property company Public Property Invest said Wednesday that it has launched an initial public offering in Oslo to raise up to approximately 1.8 billion Norwegian krone ($162 million) with advice from Norwegian law firms Thommessen AS and Wikborg Rein.
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April 17, 2024
Steel Specialist Severfield To Launch £10M Share Buyback
Severfield PLC said on Wednesday it intends to launch a share repurchase program worth up to £10 million ($12.5 million) aimed at rewarding investors and lowering its outstanding share capital.
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April 17, 2024
Vinci To Buy Controlling Stake In Edinburgh Airport For £1.3B
Vinci SA said Wednesday that one of its subsidiaries has agreed to buy a 50.01% stake in Edinburgh Airport for £1.27 billion ($1.58 billion), as the French infrastructure giant eyes growth at the Scottish flight hub.