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June 25, 2025
Ad Co. Brave Bison To Buy Education Tech Platform For £19M
Brave Bison said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Mini Trading Co. Ltd., the owner of an MBA-level online education portal, for £19 million ($26 million), as the U.K. digital media and marketing company moves to diversify its business.
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July 02, 2025
Baker McKenzie Hires Transactions Pro From K&L Gates
Baker McKenzie has hired an energy and infrastructure contract expert as a partner at its London office as the firm presses ahead with its lateral hiring push.
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June 25, 2025
CMS-Led Tritax Beats Blackstone With £485M Rival REIT Bid
Tritax Big Box said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire a rival, Warehouse REIT PLC, for £485.2 million ($660.6 million) in a cash and shares deal to create a leading U.K. logistics player, beating an earlier bid by Blackstone.
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June 25, 2025
UK Industrial Chains Biz Buys Italian Rival Ognibene For €10M
British industrial chains maker Renold PLC said Wednesday that it has acquired Italian rival Ognibene SpA for €10 million ($11.6 million), giving it access to the wider southern European market.
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June 25, 2025
Investment Biz Electric Guitar Shares Suspended From AIM
Shares in Electric Guitar PLC were suspended from trading on the junior Alternative Investment Market in London on Wednesday after the investment company missed a deadline to complete a reverse takeover.
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June 25, 2025
ECB Clears Monte Dei Paschi's €13.3B Mediobanca Deal
Italian lender Monte dei Paschi said Wednesday that the European Central Bank has waved through its €13.3 billion ($15.4 billion) proposed takeover of rival Mediobanca SpA, ramping up consolidation in the country's banking sector.
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June 25, 2025
Haynes Boone Advises Oil Biz Zephyr On £10.5M Fundraising
Zephyr Energy PLC said on Wednesday that it has conditionally raised £10.5 million ($14 million) from selling stock amid challenging market conditions.
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June 24, 2025
German Auto Parts Retailer Autodoc Scraps IPO Plans
Autodoc SE on Tuesday postponed its initial public offering and related private placement, one week after the German auto parts retailer unveiled plans to raise up to €463.6 million ($535.8 million) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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June 24, 2025
VietJet Air Loses Bid To Ax $181M Plane Lease Dispute Ruling
A Vietnamese budget airline lost its fight to overturn a decision that it is liable to pay an investment company $181 million for failing to make aircraft leasing payments when a London court ruled Tuesday that the notices served to terminate the leasing deals were valid.
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June 24, 2025
Fintech Accuses JP Morgan Of Waging 'Proxy War' In Greece
Fintech company WeRealize accused J.P. Morgan on Tuesday of waging a legal "proxy war" against its directors in Greece to prevent it from purchasing the investment bank's stake in a payments startup joint venture.
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June 24, 2025
Amundsen Davis Guiding First Financial On Westfield Buy
Amundsen Davis LLC is advising First Financial Bancorp on a new agreement to purchase Westfield Bancorp for $325 million, while SquirePatton Boggs (US) LLP is representing the seller, Westfield parent Ohio Farmers Insurance Co.
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June 24, 2025
Volvo Sells Construction Unit To Chinese Rival For $839M
Swedish motor giant Volvo Group said Tuesday that its construction equipment subsidiary has agreed to sell its Chinese business to Lingong Group for 8 billion Swedish kronor ($839 million).
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June 24, 2025
Paul Hastings-Led Mobile Comms Biz To Buy Rival For $145M
Norwegian technology company Link Mobility said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire South African rival SMSPortal in a deal worth up to $145 million in a cash-and-stock deal, as it seeks to expand beyond Europe.
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June 24, 2025
Engineer Hunting Buys Oil Drill Tool Maker FES For £50M
Hunting PLC said Tuesday it has acquired the U.K.'s Flexible Engineered Solutions (Group) Holdings Ltd. for £50 million ($68 million) in cash, as the energy industry engineering supplier moves to further grow its offshore and sub-sea revenues.
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June 24, 2025
Kingfisher Starts 2nd Stage Of £300M Share Buyback Plan
Home improvements business Kingfisher began a stock repurchase program of up to £50 million ($68 million) on Tuesday, the second step in its wider share buyback plan worth £300 million.
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June 24, 2025
Diversified Energy, Carlyle To Invest Up To $2B In US Assets
Diversified Energy Co. and global investor Carlyle said Tuesday they will invest up to $2 billion in assets to help expand the oil and gas producer's presence in the U.S.
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June 24, 2025
Danish Pensions Fintech Biz Expands Into UK Market
Festina Finance, a Danish financial technology company, said it has begun fully operating its retirement savings platform for administrators of British pension plans.
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June 23, 2025
NFL Jets Owner Nabs Stake In Crystal Palace In $254M Deal
British Premier League team Crystal Palace F.C., advised by Sidley Austin LLP, on Monday confirmed that the NFL's New York Jets' co-owner Robert "Woody" Johnson, led by Proskauer Rose LLP, has amassed a stake in the Selhurst, South London-based team.
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June 23, 2025
CMS-Led LondonMetric Finalizes £700M Urban Logistics Buy
LondonMetric Property PLC said Monday that its cash-and-stock takeover of Urban Logistics REIT PLC worth approximately £699 million ($943 million) has been completed after getting approval from the High Court.
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June 23, 2025
Staffer Can't Ax Amazon's Defense To Russia Tech Sale Claim
A former Amazon employee on Monday lost his bid to strike out the tech giant's defense to his claims that he was fired for blowing the whistle on alleged sales of its facial recognition technology to Russia.
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June 23, 2025
EU Proposes Cutting Transaction Reporting Rules For Firms
The European Union's markets watchdog proposed Monday to simplify rules for financial firms on reporting transactions to national regulators.
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June 23, 2025
Security Screening Biz Thruvision No Longer Up For Sale
Thruvision Group PLC, a security technology firm, on Monday announced the cancellation of a process to put itself up for sale, as it issued an update on its cash reserves.
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June 23, 2025
Assura Backs PHP's Sweetened £1.79B Takeover Bid
Primary Health Properties said Monday it has won Assura PLC's support for its takeover bid by increasing its offer for the company to approximately £1.79 billion ($2.34 billion), seeing off a rival bid from private equity firms KKR and Stonepeak.
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June 23, 2025
Getty-Shutterstock $3.7B Merger Faces UK Scrutiny
Britain's antitrust watchdog said Monday that it is looking into the proposed merger of Getty Images Holdings Inc. and Shutterstock Inc. to create a $3.7 billion visual content company, to decide if it will harm competition in U.K. markets.
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June 23, 2025
Squire Patton Steers Just's £67M Pension Deal For 2 Plans
Pension insurer Just Group said Monday it has penned a £67 million ($90 million) retirement savings deal for two plans, guided by law firm Squire Patton Boggs LLP.