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January 28, 2025
Wealth Manager Brooks Macdonald Begins £10M Buyback
Brooks Macdonald Group PLC on Tuesday rolled out an up to £10 million ($12.4 million) share repurchase program, as the wealth manager seeks to downsize its share capital.
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January 28, 2025
Gov't Floats Pension Reforms To Reinvest Surplus Funds
The U.K. government on Tuesday mapped out plans to relax pension fund rules to allow schemes to invest billions of pounds tied up in retirement plan surpluses in their own business or wider economy.
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January 28, 2025
Reading FC Owner Says Failed Buyer Seeks Forced Sale
The owner of Reading Football Club has told a court that he refused to sell the third-tier outfit to a potential buyer because of concerns about "continual changes" to the proposed terms for a takeover which has "caused some rancor."
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January 28, 2025
Cornish Metals To Raise £56M For Historic UK Tin Mine
Tin miner Cornish Metals Inc. said Tuesday that it is looking to raise at least £56 million ($70 million) in equity through offerings to resuscitate an historic mine in the southwestern English county of Cornwall.
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January 28, 2025
Danish Bank Launches $70M Share Buyback Program
Danish lender Ringkjoebing began on Tuesday a stock repurchase program worth up to 500 million Danish kroner ($70 million), a move that is expected to lower the size of its outstanding share capital.
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January 28, 2025
Mediobanca Rejects Monte Dei Paschi's €13.3B Bid
Italian investment bank Mediobanca SpA said Tuesday that it has rejected a €13.3 billion ($13.9 billion) takeover offer from Monte dei Paschi for being destructive to value for shareholders at both lenders.
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January 28, 2025
Slaughter & May-Led JV To Buy 6 Warehouses Worth €470M
Property investor Segro PLC said Tuesday that its joint venture with a pension fund has agreed to acquire six logistics centers in the Netherlands and Germany worth €470 million ($490 million), as the U.K. company plans to expand its presence in Europe.
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January 27, 2025
Clyde & Co.-Led Abu Dhabi Biz Bids £100M For Good Energy
Renewable energy provider Good Energy Group PLC said Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by UAE-based energy transition company Esyasoft for approximately £99.4 million ($124 million) in a deal guided by Clyde & Co LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright.
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January 27, 2025
Royal London Hits Back In £27M Company Sale Row
Mutual insurance and investment firm Royal London has denied that it breached any warranties during the sale of a company to M&G and that it does not owe at least £27 million ($33.7 million) claimed by the asset manager.
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January 27, 2025
Former Construction Execs Sued For £1.4M Over Rival Biz
Three subsidiaries of a construction testing company have sued the former directors of a firm it acquired for allegedly breaching the terms of the sale by setting up a competing business and poaching clients.
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February 03, 2025
Simmons Hires Restructuring Pro From Dechert
Simmons & Simmons LLP has hired a restructuring expert to join its wider private equity and leveraged finance practice in London as the firm reacts to an uptick in global demand for its services in the evolving lending sector
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January 27, 2025
Latham, Gibson Lead Diversified Energy's $1.3B Maverick Buy
U.S.-based Diversified Energy Partners PLC said Monday that it has agreed to acquire private oil and gas company Maverick from U.S. investment firm EIG for approximately $1.28 billion in a deal guided by Latham & Watkins LLP, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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January 27, 2025
Luxury Goods Shipper Ferrari Announces Amsterdam IPO
Ferrari Group PLC said Monday it plans to float on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange, a move the shipping and logistics business believes will bolster its public profile and help it access a range of funding.
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January 27, 2025
UK Pension Deals Market Set To Hit £70B In 2025, WTW says
The pension deal market in the U.K. is likely to hit £70 billion ($88 billion) in 2025, broker WTW said Monday, as funding levels continue to improve, and more insurance companies enter the market.
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January 27, 2025
Swedish PE Group EQT To Buy Italian Warehouses For €230M
Private equity group EQT said Monday that its fund has agreed to acquire warehouses near Milan and Verona for €230 million ($241 million) from Italian asset manager Kryalos, as the Swedish company reacts to growing demand for logistics centers in Europe.
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January 24, 2025
Amex GBT Faces Sept. Trial In DOJ Case Against $570M Deal
A New York federal judge set a September trial date Friday for the U.S. Department of Justice suit challenging American Express Global Business Travel Inc.'s planned $570 million purchase of CWT Holdings LLC, rejecting company assertions of "exigencies" necessitating a decision by June.
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January 24, 2025
Norway's Orkla Selling Hydropower Portfolio In $545M Deal
Norwegian industrial investment company Orkla said Friday it has agreed to sell its entire hydropower portfolio in two separate transactions that value the portfolio at NOK 6.1 billion ($544.9 million).
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January 24, 2025
EU Approves Int'l Paper's $7.2B DS Smith Deal With Fix
European enforcers said Friday they have approved International Paper Co.'s planned £5.8 billion ($7.2 billion) purchase of fellow packaging provider DS Smith PLC conditioned on the sale of several factories in regions where they currently overlap.
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January 24, 2025
Chinese Co. Buys Stake In Amp Maker Marshall In $1.2B Deal
Chinese private equity firm HongShan Capital Group has agreed to purchase a majority stake in the Marshall Group, in a deal that values the maker of guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets at EU1.1 billion ($1.16 billion), Marshall said Friday.
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January 24, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Axa Insurance and Admiral face a claim from a former lawyer recently exposed for personal injury fraud, the owner of Reading Football Club sue a prospective buyer and mobile network Lycamobile tackle action by Spanish network Yogio. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 24, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Latham, Simpson Thacher
In this week's Taxation With Representation, a Brookfield private real estate fund acquires Divvy Homes' property portfolio and platform, Kantar Group proposes the sale of Kantar Media, and an Ares Management-led group buys a majority of Form Technologies Inc.'s common equity.
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January 24, 2025
Eversheds Guides £53M Pension Deal For Building Co.
Buildings insulations maker Rockwool secured its pension scheme through a £53 million ($66 million) full scheme buy-in transaction with Royal London Group guided by Eversheds Sutherland, an insurance broker said Friday.
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January 24, 2025
FD Technologies To Complete £120M Share Buyback
FD Technologies PLC said Friday it will return £120 million ($149 million) to investors after successfully running a share repurchase program after the sale of a consultancy business.
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January 24, 2025
Broker SRG Expands Into Europe With German Partner
Insurance broker Specialist Risk Group said Friday that it has reached a new long-term partnership deal with Ecclesia Group that will allow it to expand in mainland Europe, and take on the German company as one of its shareholders.
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January 24, 2025
Clean Fuel Maker Raises £4.5M Via Placing, Subscription
Green energy technology provider Quadrise PLC said Friday that it has raised at least £4.5 million ($6.8 million) in an oversubscribed sale of new shares to help develop its biofuel products, Msar and bioMsar.