Transactions UK

Law360 UK Transactions delivers daily news, real-time alerts and forward-thinking analysis on corporate transactions trends and deals in the U.K. and EU including hostile takeovers, friendly mergers, IPOs, buyouts and shareholder disputes – and the laws and regulation surrounding them.

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Latest News in Transactions UK

  • October 09, 2026

    Macquarie Offers CMA Fix For Meter Reading Deal

    Britain's competition enforcer is mulling a proposed fix for Macquarie Asset Management's planned purchase of electricity and gas metering company Energy Assets Group, after raising concerns about gas metering services for commercial customers.

  • October 09, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Osler, Debevoise, Skadden

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Emera and ATCO announce a merger to create a Canadian utility and energy infrastructure powerhouse, French technology giant Schneider Electric buys industrial software provider PTC Inc., and Wittington Investments Ltd. acquires health and beauty retailer Boots.

  • October 09, 2026

    Scotchstone Weighs Joining Permanent TSB Buyout Bids

    Investment firm Scotchstone Capital LLP said Friday it is considering making a takeover offer for Permanent TSB Group Holdings PLC, potentially increasing competition for the Irish lender as it pursues an already-agreed acquisition by Austria's Bawag Group.

  • October 09, 2026

    Pensions Admin Biz Founder Sells £10.5M Shareholding

    The founder of InvestAcc Group has sold all his shares in the pensions administration business for approximately £10.5 million ($13.9 million), the company said on Friday, in a move connected to the sale of two subsidiaries to a business he owns.

  • October 09, 2026

    Music Co. To Hold Majority In Sleep Tracker Biz In $226M Deal

    Swedish health tech business Sleep Cycle said Friday that it will acquire domestic independent record label Audiowell for 2.255 billion Swedish kronor ($226 million), in a reverse takeover that will give the lifestyle music distributor a majority shareholding in the buyer.

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Areas of Coverage

  • MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS:
  • Share swaps & cash acquisitions
  • IPOs, Cash Calls and Buybacks
  • Management buy-outs and buy-ins
  • Leveraged-buyouts
  • Shareholder agreements & Poison Pills
  • Activist shareholders and proxy fights
  • Venture capital and private equity deals
  • Distressed M&A: insolvency, restructuring, bailouts
  • AGENCIES
  • The Competition and Markets Authority
  • The Financial Conduct Authority
  • The Pension Regulator
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • U.K. Takeover Code under the Companies Act
  • Financial Services and Markets Act
  • Market Abuse Regulation
  • The Enterprise Act

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  • Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 and FTSE 350 companies
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  • Judges and court staff across the U.K.
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