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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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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.
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June 13, 2025
FCA Sees 'More To Do' In Reshaping Regulation For Growth
The Financial Conduct Authority responded Friday to parliamentary calls for more growth-oriented regulation, saying that it is exploring new ways to boost Britain's international competitiveness on top of the steps it has already taken.
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June 13, 2025
France's BPCE To Buy Novo Banco In €6.4B Deal
France's second-largest banking group BPCE said Friday that it will buy U.S. private equity shop Lone Star Fund's 75% stake in Novo Banco SA in a deal that values the Portuguese bank at €6.4 billion ($7.4 billion).
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June 13, 2025
Tap Global To List On AIM, Eyes Wider Investor Base
Tap Global Group PLC said Friday it will list on London's junior alternative investment market this month, a move the digital finance platform believes will help it attract a wider pool of investors.
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June 12, 2025
UK Investors Sue Cricket Team Owner Over Claimed Tax Fraud
Three U.K.-based investors in an Indian Premier League cricket team are seeking £10 million ($13.6 million) in damages from the club's owner, claiming in a London court that he duped them over the tax implications of selling their shares in his business.
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June 12, 2025
5 Firms Guide $1.25B BioNTech, CureVac Oncology Deal
German biotech firm BioNTech SE said Thursday that it will acquire CureVac NV, a clinical-stage mRNA specialist, in an all-stock oncology-focused deal valuing it at about $1.25 billion and involving five legal advisers.
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June 12, 2025
Everbright Exec Testifies He Trusted Media Biz's Financial Info
An executive of the Chinese financial services firm Everbright testified Thursday that a sports media rights business was portrayed as "well performing" before a joint venture acquired a majority stake, only to later discover its financial health was allegedly inflated.
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June 12, 2025
Amaroq Minerals Raises £45M To Fund Greenland Gold Mine
Amaroq Minerals Ltd. said Thursday that it has raised approximately £45 million ($61.2 million) in equity in a "significantly oversubscribed" share sale it conducted to fund the development of a gold mine in Greenland.