Gold Mining Boss Says £18M Share Payment Not Due

By William Janes

A director of an ailing gold mining company has denied breaching an agreement to pay more than £17.5 million ($23.7 million) for shares in another mining business, arguing that he didn't have to pay because the price had not been determined.

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Payments Co., Owner 'Sabotaged' $175M Sale, Crypto Biz Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

A cryptocurrency wallet platform seeks to enforce its $175 million deal to purchase a global payments company, accusing the company and its owner of "a blatant, reckless, and improper campaign" to keep the sale from closing.

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EU Risks Losing Startups Without Unified Investor Exit Rules

By Najiyya Budaly

The European Union has a plan for a blocwide secondary trading platform for private companies to prevent them from slipping away to the deeper capital pools available in the U.S., although the proposal might be hindered by jurisdictional barriers.

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Freshfields-Led Standard Life To Buy Aegon UK For £2B

By Najiyya Budaly

Standard Life PLC said Wednesday that it will buy the British subsidiary of Dutch insurer Aegon for £2 billion ($2.7 billion) in cash and stock to create a major U.K. retirement savings and income business.

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Windar Photonics Lands £20M Investment Deal

By Dawood Fakhir

Windar Photonics said Wednesday that investment group Global Emerging Markets has agreed to invest up to £20 million ($27 million) in the sustainable technology company.

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Investor Tiger Alpha To List AI Biz After £10M Acquisition

By Dawood Fakhir

Tiger Alpha PLC said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Cyprus-based technology startup Potentially Ltd. for £10 million ($13.5 million) in an all-share transaction that will transform it into a publicly traded generative artificial intelligence company.

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Brief

Rosebank Industries Names May 1 For LSE Main Market Move

By Irene Madongo

Rosebank Industries PLC said Wednesday that it expects its shares will start trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on May 1, in a switch from the market's junior investment platform.

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Danish Space Biz Raises $4M To Boost Growth, Projects

By Irene Madongo

Danish Aerospace Co. AS has said that it has raised 24.7 million Danish kroner ($3.9 million) in a share sale which the maker of medical equipment for astronauts plans to use for growth and product development.

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Assessing The Significance Of Australia-EU's Free Trade Deal

The recently concluded Australia-European Union free trade agreement could be a springboard for a more ambitious initiative bringing together the EU and the economies of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a critical mass capable of shaping norms across subsidies, sustainability disciplines and competition policy, says Alan Yanovich at Akin Gump.

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