Transactions UK

  • April 30, 2025

    Inspired PLC Investors Line Up To Rebuff £109M Regent Offer

    Energy and sustainability adviser Inspired PLC said Wednesday that its shareholders are rallying against a £109 million ($146 million) takeover bid from gas and metering services business Regent International Holdings Ltd.

  • April 30, 2025

    HSF Leads Weir In £624M Acquisition Of Mine Tech Biz

    Weir Group said Wednesday it has finalized its acquisition of Mining Software Holdings Pty Ltd., known as Micromine, for an enterprise value of £624 million ($834 million) to improve the performance of its digital technology, in a deal led by Herbert Smith Freehills.

  • April 30, 2025

    Portuguese Energy Biz Floats In London After SPAC Deal

    Technologies New Energy SA said Wednesday that it has started to trade on the London stock market after the Portuguese clean energy company completed a £28 million ($37 million) takeover by blank-check business Codex Acquisitions.

  • May 06, 2025

    Linklaters Hires Arbitration Pro From A&O Shearman

    Linklaters LLP has snapped up an international arbitration expert from A&O Shearman to serve as its new head of public international law in London, the latest partner to exit the law firm in the city since its merger.

  • April 29, 2025

    Stonepeak Buying Stake In Spain's Repsol For $340M

    Vinson & Elkins LLP-advised Stonepeak has agreed to purchase a 46.3% stake in Latham & Watkins LLP-advised Repsol's 777-megawatt solar and storage portfolio in the U.S. for $340 million, according to a Tuesday announcement.

  • April 29, 2025

    US Biotech Firm To Quit London Listing After IP Deal

    Biotechnology company LungLife said Tuesday that it has convened a shareholder meeting to approve plans to delist from the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange after it reached a deal to sell its intellectual property assets.

  • April 29, 2025

    Burness Paull Guides £7.5M Pension Deal For Fuel Biz

    Aviva PLC has bought out £7.5 million ($10 million) of the pension arrangement liabilities of Gleaner Ltd., advisers said Tuesday, in a deal steered by law firm Burness Paull LLP.

  • April 29, 2025

    BP Announces $750M Share Buyback Despite Profit Fall

    BP PLC said Tuesday it will launch a share repurchase program worth up to $750 million, as the energy giant prepares to return excess cash to its shareholders, despite weaker gas trading and refining affecting profit.

  • April 29, 2025

    Ex-Russells Partner Denies Role In Alleged Share Sale Plot

    Russells Solicitors and a former partner have denied being part of an alleged plot to hide plans for a $40 million takeover of a celebrity intellectual property licensing company to get a former director to sell his shares cheaply.

  • April 29, 2025

    HSBC Banks On $3B Buyback After Strong Figures

    HSBC Holdings PLC said Tuesday that it will buy back $3 billion of its shares after the British banking giant reported strong results for the first quarter 2025.

  • April 29, 2025

    Travel Group Jet2 Gets £250M Share Buyback Off The Ground

    Jet2 PLC began a share repurchase program worth up to £125 million ($168 million) on Tuesday, the first part of the leisure group's wider £250 million buyback plan aimed at lowering its outstanding share capital.

  • April 29, 2025

    Bakkavor Completes China Exit, Eyes Greencore Acquisition

    Supermarket supplier Bakkavor Group PLC said Tuesday that it will quit the Chinese market after it agreed to sell its remaining company in the country for 500 million Chinese yuan ($69 million), as it weighs a takeover by rival Greencore.

  • April 28, 2025

    Hogan Lovells Leads Royal London's College Pension Buy-In

    The College of Law's retirement scheme has agreed to an £85 million ($114 million) buy-in with Royal London, the U.K.'s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company announced Monday.

  • April 28, 2025

    Compliance Firm Marlowe Unveils £15M Buyback, Acquisition

    Marlowe PLC, the testing, inspection and certification services business, on Monday announced an additional £15 million ($20 million) share repurchase program, as it unveiled its acquisition of waste management services business Sludge Tek.

  • April 28, 2025

    Alpine Ski Resort Biz Buys 33% Of Terresens For €6.9M

    French ski resorts operator Compagnie des Alpes said Monday that it has acquired a one-third equity stake in hospitality company Terrésens for €6.9 million ($7.8 million), with an aim to increase its holding to 80% in three to four years.

  • April 28, 2025

    Airbus To Acquire Assets Of Aircraft Parts Maker For $439M

    Airbus SE said Monday that it has finalized a deal for the global components operations of Spirit AeroSystems as part of a $4.7 billion takeover of the parts maker by aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing.

  • April 28, 2025

    Sullivan & Cromwell-Led Merck To Buy SpringWorks For $3.9B

    Merck KGaA said Monday it has agreed to acquire U.S. biotech company SpringWorks Therapeutics for $3.9 billion, as the German science and technology group aims to grow its cancer drug business and its global presence.

  • April 28, 2025

    Italy's Mediobanca Offers €6.3B For Rival Banca Generali

    Italian investment bank Mediobanca SpA said Monday that it plans to buy a domestic rival, Banca Generali SpA, for €6.3 billion ($7.1 billion), heating up consolidation in the country's banking sector.

  • April 25, 2025

    EU Probing Universal Music's $775M Deal For Downtown

    European enforcers are reviewing a planned deal for Universal Music Group to buy Downtown Music Holdings for $775 million, after receiving a referral from competition authorities in Austria and the Netherlands.

  • April 25, 2025

    DoorDash Woos Deliveroo With $3.6B Acquisition Bid

    Deliveroo's board confirmed Friday that it received an indicative proposal from DoorDash Inc. for a potential cash offer to acquire the business at a price of 180 pence per share, while indicating that its board could recommend a deal to shareholders. 

  • April 25, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Dechert, Brown Rudnick

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Boeing sells parts of its digital aviation solutions business to Thoma Bravo, Baker Tilly and Moss Adams join forces, Mobico sells its U.S. school bus business to I Squared Capital, and Apollo commits to a joint venture with Bullrock Energy Ventures.

  • April 25, 2025

    UK Law, Accounting Bodies Queried On Poor SAR Records

    The anti-money laundering unit of the Financial Conduct Authority has told legal and accounting professional bodies to justify their failure to check the quality of suspicious activity reports by their member firms.

  • April 25, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen pub operator Stonegate sue insurance broker Marsh, a human rights lawyer sued for defamation by Russian businessman Ovik Mkrtchyan, and British toy-maker The Character Group reignite an employment dispute with a former finance director. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • April 25, 2025

    Identity Verification Firm GBG Begins £10M Share Buyback

    GB Group PLC said on Friday that it has started a program to buy back shares of up to £10 million ($13 million), a move the ID verification firm said would reduce its outstanding capital.

  • April 25, 2025

    South Korean Co. To Buy Norwegian Silicon Biz For $89M

    REC Silicon ASA said Friday that Hanwha Group, its largest shareholder, has offered to acquire the company in a deal that values it at approximately 925 million Norwegian kroner ($89 million).

Expert Analysis

  • Takeaways For Transaction Parties After UK Acquisition Block

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    The U.K. government recently used its retrospective powers under the National Security and Investment Act for the first time to block Nexperia’s acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab, highlighting the considerations that parties have to evaluate when contemplating transactions in high-risk areas, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Understanding The EU's New Foreign Subsidies Regulation

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    The European Parliament’s newly adopted Foreign Subsidies Regulation extends already wide-ranging European Union state aid powers and adds new layers of deal conditionality, so companies will need to carefully consider how the regulation may affect their EU-bound activities, say Peter Camesasca and Sophie Bertin at Covington.

  • A Look At The Increase In Employee Ownership Trusts

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    The rise in employee ownership trusts has brought certain challenges, but with tax advantages and a proven positive impact on individuals, businesses and regional economies, employee buyouts are set to become more popular and could outstrip mainstream deal activity, says ​​​​​​​Lisa Hayward at Birketts.

  • EU Basel III Bank Reforms May Weaken Securities Market

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    Recent proposals from the Council of the European Union's review of Basel III bank capital regulatory reforms did not adopt substantive changes urged by the market for the securitization framework, and may have a dampening effect on the competitiveness of European securitizations, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

  • 5 Factors Driving Longer Prenotifications In EU Mergers

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    Attorneys at Linklaters discuss reasons, including transaction complexity and a higher standard of proof, why the duration of the prenotification process in European Commission merger control cases has generally increased over the last 10 years, say attorneys at Linklaters.

  • Series

    My Favorite Law Prof: How I Learned To Argue Open-Mindedly

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    Queens College President Frank Wu reflects on how Yale Kamisar’s teaching and guidance at the University of Michigan Law School emphasized a capacity to engage with alternative worldviews and the importance of the ability to argue for both sides of a debate.

  • New Clarity On Directors' Creditor Duty In Insolvency Context

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    The recent case of BTI 2014 v. Sequana, the first to consider the creditor duty at U.K. Supreme Court level, provides directors and insolvency practitioners with significant guidance on how close to insolvency the company needs to be for the creditor duty to be engaged, say attorneys at Shearman.

  • German Draft Bill Reflects Trend Toward New Antitrust Tools

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    A recently proposed amendment to the German Act against Restraints on Competition continues the trend in Europe to equip authorities with greater powers, shifting from a more traditional approach to a more extensive market protection tool, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • How COVID, Supply Chain Woes Are Fueling Air Cargo M&A

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    The pandemic has triggered a shift in the air cargo market, with supply chain issues and demand for expedited service attracting new investment — and M&A interest will likely continue, even as inflation and other factors damp enthusiasm, say Solange Leandro and Alison Weal at Watson Farley.

  • What To Expect From A Simplified EU Merger Control System

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    The European Commission’s draft amendments to the EU merger control system, expected to be formally adopted shortly, reduce its administrative burden and expand the scope of the simplified procedure to additional categories of transactions, providing a welcome development for companies and their advisers, say Axel Gutermuth and Lukas Šimas at Arnold & Porter.

  • How The Pandemic And UK Security Law Are Changing Deals

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    Deal makers must consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped the approach to material adverse change provisions in the U.K. and U.S., and how the new U.K. National Security and Investment Act regime will affect investors across the globe seeking to acquire material influence in a U.K. company, say attorneys at Covington.

  • 3 Foreign Investment Issues Affecting Cross-Border Deals

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    Now more than ever, managing the increasingly complex foreign direct investment considerations for successfully completing cross-border transactions requires parties to be attentive to the evolving regulatory landscape, particularly in the U.K. and EU, say Chase Kaniecki and William Dawley at Cleary.

  • A Review Of The New UK Financial Services And Markets Bill

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    In revoking retained EU law and replacing it with U.K.-specific legislation, the new Financial Services and Markets Bill should mean a less cumbersome and more accessible regulatory regime than the existing patchwork of requirements, with provisions that address consumers’ concerns that they were not adequately protected, say attorneys at Ashurst.

  • Tracking The Global Move Toward Tighter Mergers Scrutiny

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    The recent merger control case of Vivendi and Lagardère in France is indicative of a global trend of competition authorities applying stricter standards to concentrations and pursuing an increasingly aggressive enforcement agenda, particularly in the media sector, says Jérémie Marthan at White & Case.

  • Dutch Merger May Promote Behavioral Remedies Across EU

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    A Dutch tribunal's recent clearing of the Sanoma-Iddink deal might further encourage merging parties in the EU to offer — and government agencies to accept — behavioral remedies, which was rarer when more emphasis was put on divestments, says Robert Hardy at Greenberg Traurig.

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