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November 20, 2025
Cleaning Products Biz McBride Eyes £20M Share Buyback
Cleaning products supplier McBride said Thursday that it intends to return £20 million ($26 million) to investors through a share buyback amid concerns about its market capitalization.
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November 20, 2025
Equipment Seller HC Slingsby To Delist From AIM
HC Slingsby PLC said Thursday it plans to exit the London Stock Exchange's junior Alternative Investment Market due to legal and regulatory challenges and the compliance costs of a public listing.
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November 20, 2025
Neon Legal Guides £9.3M Pension Deal For Caterer
Retirement specialist Just Group has covered pension liabilities worth £9.3 million ($12.2 million) for U.K. catering company Dolce, risk transfer adviser First Actuarial said Thursday.
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November 19, 2025
English Water Co. Pens £40M Pension Deal With Just Group
A pension scheme sponsored by an English water company has offloaded £40 million ($52.5 million) of its retirement scheme liabilities to Just Group, in a deal announced by Lane Clark & Peacock.
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November 19, 2025
Smiths Group Plans £1B Buyback After Electronics Biz Sale
U.K.-based multinational engineering company Smiths said Wednesday that it will buy back £1 billion ($1.3 billion) worth of its shares using the proceeds from the £1.3 billion sale of its electronic components business to electronics company Molex.
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November 19, 2025
Tech Biz Kainos Kicks Off Another Buyback Worth Up To £30M
Kainos Group PLC said Wednesday that it has started another share repurchase program worth £30 million ($39 million) as it seeks to further lower its share capital.
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November 19, 2025
Lloyds Acquires Payments Biz To Boost Digital Transformation
Lloyds Banking Group revealed on Wednesday that it has acquired Curve, a British digital wallet business, a move the banking group anticipates will broaden its online transformation.
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November 19, 2025
Tesco To Buy £350M Of Shares In Final Part Of Buyback
Grocery giant Tesco said Wednesday that it will buy back shares worth £350 million ($459 million) in the third part of its £1.45 billion buyback program to trim the number of its shares in the market.
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November 19, 2025
Tech Giant Launches £300M Shares Buyback After Profits Rise
Sage Group PLC said Wednesday it is kickstarting a new share buyback program worth up to £300 million ($393.5 million) to reflect the U.K. accounting software giant's confidence in its prospects and its "robust" financial position.
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November 19, 2025
UK Music Group To Move To AIM, Raise £8.6M
All Things Considered Group PLC, a music company, said Wednesday that it plans to raise £8.6 million ($11.3 million) by selling new shares as it seeks to float on AIM, the junior index of the London Stock Exchange.
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November 19, 2025
UK Plans Collated Equity Data To Boost LSE Appeal
The City watchdog floated plans on Wednesday to collate data about trades of U.K. equities as it seeks to boost confidence and encourage participation in London markets, part of the government's growth agenda.
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November 18, 2025
Mike Lynch's Estate Seeks To Challenge HP Fraud Judgment
Mike Lynch's estate asked a London court on Tuesday for permission to appeal against a judgment that found he had defrauded Hewlett Packard Enterprise, attacking a ruling that an entity set up to buy the technology entrepreneur's company was misled.
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November 18, 2025
Belgian Investor Sells Half Its Holding In Recycler For €300M
Belgian investment holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert said Tuesday that it has sold approximately half of its holding in Umicore, a Brussels-based recycling company, for €300 million ($348.2 million).
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November 18, 2025
Greencore To Sell Food Site After CMA Pressure Over Deal
Greencore said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its chilled soups and sauces manufacturing site to another foods company in a move to remedy concerns raised by the competition regulator over its £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) Bakkavor takeover.
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November 18, 2025
Healthcare Foundation Sells £351M Of Meditech Shares
The controlling shareholder in global healthcare enterprise Novo Nordisk Foundation has sold its stake in Convatec Group PLC, a U.K.-based medical technology company, for £351 million ($461 million), a regulatory statement said Tuesday.
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November 18, 2025
Swiss Tech Biz Revises £287M Bid For UK Engineering Group
Swiss electronics giant Cicor said Tuesday that it has tabled a more "flexible" offer to buy British engineering group TT for approximately £287 million ($377 million), after some investors expressed concern about owning shares in a Zurich-listed company.
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November 18, 2025
5 Firms Aid Paints, Coatings Biz Merger To Create $25B Giant
AkzoNobel NV, owner of paints-maker Dulux, and Axalta Coating Systems said on Tuesday that they will combine their operations in an all-share deal to create a $25 billion coatings company in a merger of equals.
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November 17, 2025
CMS, Freshfields Steer £600M Aviva, Wolseley Pension Deal
Wolseley Group, the U.K.'s largest specialist merchant for plumbing, heating, cooling and infrastructure products, has offloaded pension liabilities worth £600 million ($790 million) to insurance giant Aviva in a deal guided by Freshfields and CMS, the insurer said Monday.
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November 17, 2025
SocGen To Launch An Additional €1B Share Buyback Program
Société Générale said Monday it will roll out a new €1 billion ($1.2 billion) share repurchase program, a move expected to lower its outstanding share capital.
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November 17, 2025
Arada To Acquire 80% Stake In $3.3B London Docks Project
Dubai-based property developer Arada said Monday that it will buy a majority stake in a 12 billion dirham ($3.3 billion) mixed-use development on the north bank of the River Thames in a move to boost London's residential market.
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November 17, 2025
TotalEnergies To Buy 50% Stake In Power Biz For €5.1B
TotalEnergies SE said Monday it has agreed to acquire a 50% stake in a diversified power generation platform in Western Europe from Energetický of Czechia for €5.1 billion ($5.9 billion).
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November 17, 2025
William Fry Steers Energy Biz On £600M Investor Returns Plan
Irish energy business DCC said Monday it plans to return up to £600 million ($790 million) to shareholders through a share buyback program following the sale of its healthcare business.
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November 17, 2025
3 Firms Guide £5.3B UK Infrastructure Trust Merger
HICL Infrastructure and the Renewables Infrastructure Group said Monday that they plan to merge to create a £5.3 billion ($7 billion) investment company in a cash and shares deal.
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November 14, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Wachtell, Paul Hastings, Sidley
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Pfizer Inc. completes its acquisition of obesity drug developer Metsera Inc., motion and controls technologies company Parker-Hannifin Corp. acquires Filtration Group Corp., and fund administrator JTC PLC backs a cash offer in the billions from British private equity shop Permira.
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November 14, 2025
Investors Sell £67M Of Shares In Asset Manager Bridgepoint
Current and former employees of alternative asset manager Bridgepoint Group have sold about £67 million ($88 million) of their shares, bookrunner BNP Paribas London said Friday.