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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.
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February 26, 2025
Metro Bank To Sell £584M Personal Loan Portfolio
High street lender Metro Bank said Wednesday that it will sell a £584 million ($739 million) portfolio of unsecured personal loans as it moves to shore up its balance sheet and to allow it to focus on specialist lending.
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February 25, 2025
IBM Gets UK Green Light On $6.4B HashiCorp Buy
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday it has cleared IBM's planned $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp Inc., but a review by U.S. authorities remains open after IBM's original anticipated close date for the transaction came and went.
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February 25, 2025
Kirkland-Led Thoma Bravo Snags €1.8B For 1st Europe Fund
Software-focused private equity shop Thoma Bravo, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday announced that it closed its first European-focused fund after securing €1.8 billion ($1.89 billion) from investors.
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February 25, 2025
M&G Pens £111M Pension Deal For UK-Based Asset Manager
M&G PLC on Tuesday said it has taken on £111 million ($140.5 million) in retirement savings liabilities from an unnamed, U.K.-based asset manager's pension scheme, in a deal guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Hogan Lovells.
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February 25, 2025
Bank Of Ireland To Buy Back €590M Worth Of Shares
Bank of Ireland Group PLC on Tuesday kicked off a share repurchase program of up to €590 million ($620 million) aimed at lowering its issued capital after announcing a pretax profit of approximately €1.9 billion for 2024.
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February 25, 2025
Liquidators Bid To Reinstate £102M Award In Hotel Fraud Case
Britain's highest court was urged on Tuesday to find that a businessman should be ordered to pay £102 million ($129 million) in compensation after he helped a property investor spend secret profits generated from the sale of three London hotels.
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February 25, 2025
Pension Insurer PIC Invests £50M In UK Port Group
Specialist U.K. insurer PIC has invested an extra £50 million ($63 million) in port group Peel — the second deal concluded between the two following a funding round that provided £33 million in 2023.
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February 25, 2025
Reading FC Suitor Strikes Back In Failed Takeover Claim
A potential buyer of Reading FC has hit back against a claim by the owner of the third-tier football outfit, arguing that he is entitled to hold on to assets used to secure the botched sale.
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February 25, 2025
Real Estate Giant Raises $335M With New Shares Sale
Swiss Prime Site AG said Tuesday it has raised 300 million Swiss francs ($335 million) with the sale of new shares, which the European real estate giant intends to use to finance a new property shopping spree.
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February 25, 2025
Shakespeare Martineau-Led NHS Services Biz Raises £7.5M
Medical procedures provider One Health said Tuesday that it has provisionally raised £7.5 million ($9.5 million) by selling shares, part of a wider program to quit an exchange for unlisted securities and float on London's junior investment market.
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February 25, 2025
Recruiter Staffline Group Sells Training Biz For £12M
Recruitment and training provider Staffline Group said Tuesday that it has offloaded its subsidiary PeoplePlus for £12 million ($15 million) in cash as it seeks to focus on the recruitment side of business.
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February 25, 2025
Telefónica's $1.2B Argentina Unit Sale Faces Antitrust Probe
The president of Argentina has disclosed plans to probe whether the $1.25 billion sale by Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica of its business in the South American country to Telecom Argentina will create a monopoly.
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February 24, 2025
CVC Sells Stake In India Hospital Chain To KKR For $400M
Private equity shop CVC on Monday announced that it has agreed to sell its majority stake in Indian oncology hospital chain Healthcare Global Enterprises to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP-advised KKR for $400 million.
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February 24, 2025
DWF Guides £4.5M Pension Deal For Christian Charity
A youth charity has offloaded £4.5 million ($5.7 million) of its pension scheme liabilities to Just Group, the insurer said Monday, in a deal steered by DWF Law LLP.
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February 24, 2025
TLT-Led Pension Adviser To Buy Rival Polaris For Up To £58M
Pensions adviser XPS said Monday it has agreed to acquire its U.K. rival Polaris Actuaries and Consultants Ltd. in a transaction worth up to £58.4 million ($73.3 million) in cash, as the group looks to provide a "full range of services" to the sector.
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February 24, 2025
GSK Completes $1.2B Takeover Of US Cancer Drug Biz IDRx
Pharmaceutical giant GSK said Monday that it has completed its acquisition of biopharma company IDRx Inc. in a deal worth up to $1.15 billion in cash to boost its treatment for gastrointestinal cancers.
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February 24, 2025
Just Eat Gets €4.1B Offer From Dutch Investor To Go Private
Global investment group Prosus said Monday that it will buy Just Eat Takeaway.com in a €4.1 billion ($4.3 billion) take-private deal to tap into the European food delivery market.
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February 24, 2025
Skadden Leads Brookfield To Buy Renewables Biz For $1.7B
National Grid said on Monday that it has agreed to sell its green subsidiary in the U.S. to Brookfield for $1.74 billion as the Canadian asset manager ups its stake in the rapidly growing renewables sector.
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February 21, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Russell Brand sued by publishing house Macmillan, administrators of London Capital & Finance sue the collapsed firm's former lawyers Buss Murton Law LLP, Tesco bring a competition claim against fish suppliers, and former Entain execs sue Addleshaw Goddard over privileged information. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 21, 2025
Standard Chartered To Launch New $1.5B Share Buyback
Standard Chartered PLC on Friday announced the imminent takeoff of a share repurchase scheme worth up to $1.5 billion, as it reported a bumper pretax profit.