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February 28, 2025
BA Owner Launches €1B Share Buyback As Profits Climb
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA said Friday it will launch a share buyback scheme worth up to €1 billion ($1.25 billion) as the British Airways owner reported a rise in profits, amid a sector-wide recovery to pre-pandemic levels.
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February 28, 2025
FCA Clears CVC's £5.4B Hargreaves Lansdown Takeover
CVC Capital Partners said Friday that the finance watchdog has given the green light to its £5.4 billion ($6.8 billion) takeover of wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown, wrapping up all the regulatory conditions needed to close the deal.
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February 28, 2025
60% Of Insurance Broking M&A Driven By Private Equity
Private equity companies took part in almost two-thirds of transactions that involved European insurance intermediaries in 2024, a consultancy has said.
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February 28, 2025
UK Engineering Firm IMI Launches £200M Share Buyback
Engineering firm IMI PLC kicked off a share repurchase program worth up to £200 million ($250 million) on Friday, a move the company said is intended to downsize its share capital as it reported higher pre-tax profits.
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February 28, 2025
HSF-Led Scottish Engineer To Buy Mining Tech Biz For £657M
Weir Group PLC said Friday that it has agreed to buy Mining Software Holdings Pty Ltd., a software provider to the sector, for £657 million ($827 million) to improve the productivity of its rival technology.
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February 27, 2025
Medical Device Co. Inks €760M Deal, Unveils Separation Plans
Medical device company Teleflex, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Thursday announced that it will split into two separate, publicly traded entities, and that it will acquire Biotronik SE & Co.'s vascular intervention business for €760 million ($791.95 million).
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February 27, 2025
Anthropic Could Hit $62B Valuation, And More Deal Rumors
AI startup Anthropic is close to securing funding at a $61.5 billion valuation, Bain Capital is mulling a sale of Rocket Software at a $10 billion valuation, and various additional private equity players are considering transactions across food, healthcare and finance. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.
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February 27, 2025
IBM Closes $6.4B HashiCorp Deal After UK Nod
IBM said Thursday that it had completed its $6.4 billion acquisition of infrastructure automation company HashiCorp, just two days after U.K. regulators disclosed that the deal had their green light.
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February 27, 2025
Renewables Fund Greencoat Announces £100M Buyback
Greencoat UK Wind PLC, a renewable infrastructure fund, said Thursday it will soon roll out a £100 million ($127 million) share repurchase program aimed at lowering its issued share capital.
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February 27, 2025
Stripe Says It's Valued At $91.5B Through Tender Offer
Payment provider Stripe Inc., advised by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Thursday said it reached a $91.5 billion valuation after agreeing with investors to provide liquidity to current and former Stripe employees through a tender offer.
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February 27, 2025
London-Listed Korea-Focused Fund To Wind Down
Weiss Korea, a fund listed on London's junior market, said Thursday that it plans to wind-down after "complexities" and "differing views" from shareholders blocked a rescue deal.
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February 27, 2025
Jet Engine Maker Rolls-Royce Launches £1B Share Buyback
Engineering giant Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC launched a share buyback program worth up to £1 billion ($1.26 billion) on Thursday, after the U.K. company said its pre-tax profits had soared on the back of growth across its three core divisions.
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February 27, 2025
Fintech Credit Firm To Buy AI Loans Services Biz In £4M Deal
Financial technology company Investment Evolution Credit said Thursday that it has proposed to snap up Credit Canary, a consumer credit services platform, in a shares transaction worth £4 million ($5.1 million) as it looks to expand its business.
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February 27, 2025
Hiscox Kicks Off $175M Share Buyback, Posts Record Profit
Insurer Hiscox Ltd. launched on Thursday the first part of a share buyback program worth up to $175 million, after posting a record annual pre-tax profit of $685 million.
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February 27, 2025
UK Mining Royalties Biz Ecora To Invest $50M In Africa Mine
Ecora Resources, a mining royalties company based in Britain, said on Thursday that it will invest $50 million in a Zambian copper mine owned by a U.K. exploration business as it aims to increase its exposure to the metal.
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February 26, 2025
PE Investment In UK Law Firms Nears £1.2B Since 2019
Private equity firms have injected almost £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) into law firms in England since 2019, with nearly half of that coming in the last year, a report published on Thursday shows.
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February 26, 2025
Orrick Sued For £21M Over Debt Enforcement Advice
A Luxembourgeois unit of hedge fund TREO Asset Management LLC has hit global firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP with a negligence claim in a London court for allegedly failing to advise it to enforce a €21 million ($22 million) debt in a French energy group's insolvency.
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February 26, 2025
Shareholders Approve $8.4B Amcor-Berry Global Deal
Amcor PLC and Berry Global Group Inc. said Wednesday that shareholders of both companies overwhelmingly voted to approve Amcor's planned purchase of the fellow packaging company, adding that the $8.4 billion all-stock deal is still slated to close in mid-2025.
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February 26, 2025
2 Firms Steer NormanMax Acquisition Of UK Flood Insurer
U.K. flood insurer FloodFlash Ltd. has agreed to be acquired by NormanMax Insurance Holdings Inc., a U.S.-based firm that specializes in catastrophic risk, pending regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority.
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February 26, 2025
Nutrition Firm Glanbia Approves €100M Share Buyback
Glanbia PLC, a nutrition and dairy products business, said Wednesday it plans to further reward investors by buying back their shares for up to €100 million ($105 million), as it reported improved revenues for 2024.
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March 05, 2025
Fladgate Boosts Private Equity Team With Avonhurst Hire
Fladgate LLP has added a corporate mid-market specialist as a partner to its London office, as the firm swoops to bolster its growing private capital practice.
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February 26, 2025
FCA Urged To Ban Pension Transfer Incentives
Britain's finance watchdog should ban pension transfer incentives and require providers to display comparable information about schemes, a pensions provider said Wednesday, amid a string of other proposals it said would improve transparency and saver outcomes.
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February 26, 2025
UK Touchscreen Maker Zytronic To Quit AIM, Wind Down
Touchscreen maker Zytronic PLC said Wednesday that it plans to quit London's junior market and wind down its assets after it failed to find a buyer to rescue it from a period of weak trading.
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February 26, 2025
Energy Biz To Sell 50% Share In Kazakh Unit For $72.5M
Caspian Sunrise PLC said Wednesday that it has entered into a conditional agreement to sell half of its stake in its Kazakhstani subsidiary to a "prominent Middle East financial institution" for $72.5 million.
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February 26, 2025
Danish Lender Jyske Launches $316M Share Buyback
Jyske Bank AS launched a share buyback scheme worth up to 2.25 billion Danish krone ($316 million) on Wednesday as the Danish lender disclosed bumper profits following improved business and favorable financial tailwinds.