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January 08, 2026
REIT Palace Capital Disputes Shareholder's Call To Oust Chair
Palace Capital PLC hit back on Thursday against a call by its largest shareholder to remove the U.K. real estate investor's executive chair over concerns about his "excessive" salary and leadership as the business winds down.
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January 08, 2026
Willkie Helps Mutares Buy Thermoplastics Biz For $450M
German private equity firm Mutares said Thursday that it will buy the European and American thermoplastics business of Sabic, a Saudi Arabian chemicals heavyweight, for $450 million in the largest transaction it has ever made.
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January 08, 2026
IT Firm Softcat To Buy Back Shares Worth £45M
Softcat, a provider of IT infrastructure products and services, said Thursday that it has begun a stock repurchase program of up to £45 million ($60.5 million) in a move that it expects will lower its share capital.
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January 07, 2026
Simpson Thacher Advises As Data Center Biz Gets $1.9B
Investment firm KKR and private equity firm Oak Hill Capital on Wednesday said they will contribute approximately $1.9 billion in investments for European data center company Global Technical Realty, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advising.
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January 07, 2026
UK Broker Snaps Up Cambridge Benefits Biz
Insurance broker Verlingue said it has acquired employee benefits and financial planning specialist EBCam for an undisclosed amount as it continues expanding in the U.K. employee benefits market.
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January 07, 2026
Reckitt To Return £1.6B To Shareholders After Unit Sale
Consumer brands giant Reckitt Benckiser said Wednesday that it is planning to return approximately £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) of excess cash to its shareholders after completing the partial sale of its $4.8 billion Essential Home business.
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January 07, 2026
Saba Capital Queries Investment Trust Cut In SpaceX Stake
U.S. hedge fund Saba accused Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust's board of failing to act in shareholders' interests in an open letter on Wednesday, following a sharp reduction in the trust's holding in SpaceX just weeks before a major revaluation of the rocket company.
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January 07, 2026
Ex-Jefferies Banker To Face 2028 Trial For Insider Dealing
A former Jefferies International adviser and his alleged associate denied committing insider dealing to make £70,000 ($94,000) from the £969 million takeover of a real estate investment trust when they appeared at a London court on Wednesday.
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January 07, 2026
Gold Miner Galantas To Buy Chilean Project For $32M
Galantas Gold Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Andacollo Oro Gold Project in Chile for approximately $32 million, marking a major expansion for the Canadian precious metals miner.
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January 07, 2026
Great Portland Estates Buys West End Property For £51M
Great Portland Estates, a real estate investor with a listing in London, said Wednesday that it has snapped up a West End property for £51 million ($69 million) to expand its inner-city portfolio.
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January 13, 2026
Latham & Watkins Adds 3 A&O Shearman Pros In London
Latham & Watkins LLP said Tuesday that it has hired three finance partners from A&O Shearman in London, taking to 14 the number of lawyers who have joined its ranks from its rival since June.
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January 06, 2026
Squire Patton Fights £3.7M Claim Over Advice On Tech Deal
Squire Patton Boggs has argued at a London court that it did not cause a software company to lose up to £3.7 million ($5 million) by failing to advise it on the ownership of intellectual property that was purportedly crucial to its buyout of a rival.
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January 06, 2026
Tech Biz Claims £20M Loss Over Concealed Business Flaws
A group of companies owned by an American technology and security conglomerate has pressed home its £20 million ($27 million) claim that the former owner of a company it acquired concealed a raft of problems with the business, and denied that he is still owed money from the deal.
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January 06, 2026
Prudential Launches $1.2B Share Buyback Program
Prudential PLC said Tuesday that it will reward investors with a new $1.2 billion share buyback program in 2026 after the British insurance and asset management giant successfully listed an Indian subsidiary on the Asian country's stock exchange in December.
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January 06, 2026
Broadstone Helped Steer Record £500M Pension Deals In 2025
Financial services consultancy Broadstone said Tuesday that it helped to steer 36 pension deals worth a record £508 million ($687 million) in 2025, taking the total of transactions completed through its SM&RT Insure service to more than £1 billion.
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January 06, 2026
US Investor Amends Terms Of £340M Buy Of Tech Biz Idox
U.S. investment firm Long Path Partners has said it will change the mechanism used in its £339.5 million ($460 million) buyout of U.K.-based government software company Idox PLC in order to make it easier for the deal to go ahead.
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January 06, 2026
Latham-Led Howden To Buy US Broker Atlantic Group
Global insurance broker Howden Group Holdings Ltd. has said that it has agreed to acquire Atlantic Global Risk LLC, a transaction liability insurance firm, as it aims to increase its presence in the U.S. market.
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January 06, 2026
Admiral Completes Sale Of US Motor Insurance Biz To PE Firm
Admiral Group PLC has said it has completed the sale of its U.S. motor insurance business to private investment firm J.C. Flowers & Co., to focus its operations on Britain and Europe.
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January 06, 2026
AB InBev To Buy Back 49.9% Stake In Metals Plants For $3B
The world's largest brewer, AB InBev, said on Tuesday that it will repurchase a minority stake in its U.S. beer-can-making plants from a consortium led by asset manager Apollo for approximately $3 billion.
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January 05, 2026
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
Prolonged Federal Trade Commission reviews forced the abandonment of two mergers, the U.S. Department of Justice sparred with Live Nation and defended a merger settlement, and both agencies agreed to let multibillion-dollar transactions move forward. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from December.
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January 05, 2026
Bridgepoint In Talks To Acquire Interpath Majority Stake
Financial advisory company Interpath Ltd. said on Monday that investor Bridgepoint Group is involved in exclusive negotiations for funds it manages to acquire a majority stake in Interpath's business.
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January 05, 2026
Munich Re Unit Completes €80M Acquisition Of Baltic Insurer
Ergo Group, the insurance arm of Munich Re, said Monday that it has completed the acquisition of ADB Gjensidige, the former Lithuanian subsidiary of Norwegian general insurer Gjensidige Forsikring ASA, in a deal worth €80 million ($93.3 million).
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January 05, 2026
Shareholders Approve Sale Of Falcon's Australian Unit
International oil and gas company Falcon said Monday that shareholders in its Australian subsidiary have approved the sale of the parent company's majority stake in the unit to rival Tamboran.
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January 05, 2026
Simpson Thacher-Led PE Firm To Buy Debt Manager Stake
Oakley Capital Investments Ltd. said Monday that Oakley Capital Fund VI has agreed to acquire a majority stake in finance specialist Global Loan Agency Services to expand the private equity firm's presence in a growing market.
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January 05, 2026
UK Pensions Deal Market Could Hit Record £55B In 2026
Pension deals in the U.K. could hit a record £55 billion ($74 billion) in 2026 if favorable pricing continues amid a rise in acquisitions among some of the biggest insurers in the sector, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP said Monday.