Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Transactions UK
-
June 17, 2025
Ireland Completes AIB Exit With €305M Final Share Sale
Ireland said Tuesday that it has sold its remaining 2.06% stake in Allied Irish Banks for €305.3 million ($352 million), completing the bank's return to private ownership.
-
June 17, 2025
Dentons-Led Bermuda Investment Firm Hansa To Buy Rival
Bermuda investor Hansa said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire local rival Ocean Wilsons Holdings Ltd. in an all-stock deal to create an investment company with total net assets of more than £900 million ($1.2 billion).
-
June 17, 2025
CMS Guides 'Landmark' £55M Pension Superfund Deal
Britain's only defined benefit superfund said Tuesday that it has taken on £55 million ($75 million) in assets from a plan sponsored by a Christian missionary society, in a deal steered by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.
-
June 17, 2025
Aviva Gets Green Light For £3.7B Direct Line Acquisition
Aviva said Tuesday that it has passed all the regulatory hurdles for its £3.7 billion ($5 billion) cash and stock acquisition of rival insurer Direct Line, bringing it one step closer to creating a motor and home insurance giant in Britain.
-
June 17, 2025
Autodoc To Raise Up To €464M In Frankfurt IPO
German online car parts store Autodoc SE said Tuesday that it plans to raise up to €463.6 million ($535.8 million) in its planned flotation in Frankfurt.
-
June 17, 2025
Birketts Steers BP Marsh Investment In Underwriting Agency
B.P. Marsh & Partners PLC said Tuesday it has acquired a 27% interest in underwriter Cameron Specialty, as the private equity investor adds to its portfolio of insurance intermediaries.
-
June 17, 2025
Anexo Investors Get More Time To Weigh Buying Out Stake
Anexo Group PLC said on Tuesday that its largest shareholders will have a further two weeks to say whether they plan to buy out the rest of the specialist motor accident credit hire and legal services business.
-
June 16, 2025
Ex-Metro Bank Execs Win Bid To Cut Fines Over Listing Error
An appellate tribunal on Monday reduced financial penalties for two former Metro Bank executives, confirming the bank breached listing rules when it published misleading financial statements in 2018 but finding the executives were honest with the tribunal about the £900 million ($1.2 billion) reporting scandal.
-
June 16, 2025
Covington-Led Eaton Nabs Ultra PCS In $1.55B Deal
Covington & Burling LLP-advised power management company Eaton on Monday unveiled plans to buy Ultra PCS Ltd. from the Cobham Ultra Group, advised by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, in a $1.55 billion deal.
-
June 16, 2025
Investors Can Pursue Claim Over Essity Tissue Biz Sale
A London court on Monday cleared the path for a group of investment companies to pursue their claim that Swedish health and hygiene conglomerate Essity defaulted on bond notes when it sold its controlling stake in a Chinese tissue company.
-
June 16, 2025
Just Group Secures £7M Pension Deal For Insolvent Builder
Just Group PLC said Monday that it has taken on £7 million ($9.5 million) of pension scheme liabilities of insolvent construction company The McGregor Construction (Highlands) Ltd. Pension Plan in a deal guided by CMS.
-
June 16, 2025
Latham Guides Hunter Point's £1.3B Deal For Equitix Stake
U.S. investment firm Hunter Point Capital will buy a 16.1% stake in London-based investor Equitix in a deal that values it at £1.3 billion ($1.8 billion), majority owner Tetragon Financial Group Ltd. said Monday.
-
June 16, 2025
Bitcoin-Powered Tech Biz Smarter Web Raises £29M
Tech company The Smarter Web Co. said Monday that it has raised approximately £29.3 million ($39.8 million), with the cash earmarked to buy bitcoin.
-
June 16, 2025
Hymans Robertson Launches Service For Small Pension Deals
Hymans Robertson has launched a service it said would support smaller pension schemes with around £150 million ($204 million) or less in assets as they look to offload their liabilities to insurers.
-
June 16, 2025
Knights Group Completes £16.6M Birkett Long Deal
Knights Group Holdings PLC said on Monday that it has completed the acquisition of the Birkett Long law firm and financial advisory company, in a deal estimated to be worth up to £16.6 million ($22.5 million).
-
June 16, 2025
Penningtons Steers Skin Health Biz On £4M Fundraise
SkinBioTherapeutics PLC said Monday it has raised approximately £4.1 million ($5.6 million) by issuing shares to investors to help back its agreement to supply products to high street retailer Superdrug.
-
June 16, 2025
Asset Manager Tikehau, Insurers Launch Private Equity Fund
Asset manager Tikehau Capital said Monday it has launched a private equity fund, covering cybersecurity and defense, with three leading insurers, including Société Générale Assurances.
-
June 16, 2025
Assura Weighs PHP Concessions As Bidding War Continues
National Health Service landlord Assura said Monday that it is weighing a £1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) offer from Primary Health Properties, after the investment trust added concessions to its undertaking in an intensification of a bidding war against KKR and Stonepeak.
-
June 16, 2025
Miner Vast Resources Raises £2.7M In Placing, Subscription
Mining company Vast Resources PLC said Monday that it has raised approximately £2.7 million ($3.7 million) by selling new stock to investors at 35 pence per share.
-
June 13, 2025
AstraZeneca Inks Up To $5.3B AI Drug Deal With Chinese Firm
AstraZeneca said Friday it has entered into a strategic artificial intelligence-driven research partnership with China's CSPC Pharmaceutical Group in a deal worth as much as $5.3 billion, expanding the British drugmaker's commitments in the country following a shakeup of the company's local leadership.
-
June 13, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Debevoise, Latham, Paul Weiss
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Brown & Brown Inc. buys Accession Risk Management Group Inc., Allison Transmission Holdings Inc. acquires Dana Inc.'s off-highway unit, Qualcomm Inc. buys Alphawave IP, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced it will split into two publicly traded companies.
-
June 13, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Tottenham Hotspur FC kick off against Manchester United co-owner Ineos Automotive following a soured sponsorship deal, Acer and Nokia clash over patents for video coding technology, and two investors reignite litigation against the founders of an AI exercise bike business that unlawfully pocketed $1.2 million in investments to fund their own lifestyles. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
-
June 13, 2025
Jones Day-Led PE Firm Bids £186.7M For Engineer Renold
MPE Partners, a private equity firm, said Friday it had agreed to acquire Renold PLC, a British industrial chains maker, for approximately £186.7 million ($254 million), in a deal guided by Jones Day and Eversheds Sutherland.
-
June 13, 2025
Norton Rose Steers Insurance Biz Samsung On Acquisition
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance has agreed to snap up a further 21% holding in Canopius Group Ltd., raising its stake in the global reinsurer to 40%.
-
June 13, 2025
BCLP-Led Canadian Miner Bids $1.25B For Rival Adriatic
Canadian gold miner Dundee Precious Metals said Friday that it has agreed to acquire British rival Adriatic Metals for approximately $1.25 billion to expand its operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.