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February 04, 2025
Verdane Gets Extension To Firm Up £315M Team Internet Offer
The U.K. mergers and acquisitions watchdog has given Swedish investment manager Verdane more time to make a firm £315 million ($391 million) offer for Team Internet Group PLC, the British software company said on Tuesday.
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February 04, 2025
Vodafone Launches €480M Share Buyback To Cut Capital
Vodafone said Tuesday that it plans to line its shareholders' pockets with up to €480 million ($495 million) via a share buyback, despite a 6.4% tumble in revenue at the U.K. telecommunications company's German operation.
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February 03, 2025
White & Case Gets Tax Pro From Latham
White & Case LLP has added a former Latham & Watkins LLP senior associate to serve as a partner in its London office, the firm announced.
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February 03, 2025
Pillsbury Hires Ex-McDermott London Office Chief
The former managing partner of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's office in London is joining Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to help boost the firm's corporate offering to clients in areas including life sciences and healthcare.
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February 03, 2025
ADNOC, OMV Merger Talks Move Ahead In 'Positive Manner'
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. says talks with Austria's OMV to create a new global polyolefins group, potentially valued around $30 billion, are proceeding "in a constructive and positive manner."
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February 03, 2025
Defense Tech Biz QinetiQ Expands Share Buyback By £50M
Defense technology business QinetiQ Group PLC said Monday it is extending its £100 million ($124 million) share repurchase program by £50 million to reward investors after reporting bumper results.
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February 03, 2025
Uyghur Rights Group To Sue FCA If Shein Gets LSE Listing
A Uyghur human rights group has threatened to take the Financial Conduct Authority to court if it permits Shein to list on the London Stock Exchange, stepping up its fight against the ultra-fast-fashion giant over slavery concerns.
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February 03, 2025
FCA Response To Critical Report 'Disappointing,' MPs Say
The Financial Conduct Authority's response to a highly critical parliamentary report has been lackluster and continues to demonstrate that the regulator is "in dire need of transformation," the MPs who penned the report said Monday.
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February 03, 2025
Freshfields-Led Barclays Sells German Consumer Biz
Barclays PLC said Monday that it has completed the sale of its German consumer finance business to Austrian lender BAWAG Group AG in a move to simplify its operations.
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February 03, 2025
IG Group Begins £50M Share Buyback Extension
IG Group Holdings PLC kicked off a share buyback program of up to £50 million ($62 million) on Monday, extending the online trading platform's £150 million stock repurchase scheme aimed at downsizing its share capital.
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February 03, 2025
Ex-Goldman Analyst Told To Pay £586K For Insider Trading
The Financial Conduct Authority said Monday that it has secured £586,000 ($722,000) from a former Goldman Sachs employee imprisoned for insider dealing after using price-sensitive information to trade in shares.
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February 03, 2025
L'Oreal Sells €3B Sanofi Stake Back To French Pharma Co.
Cosmetics giant L'Oreal SA said Monday that it is selling a €3 billion ($3.1 billion) stake in Sanofi back to the French drugmaker, cashing in part of its holding after Sanofi's shares outperformed the market over the past year.
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January 31, 2025
CMA Clears Outbrain's $1B Altice Video Platform Deal
Digital advertising technology provider Outbrain is free to move forward with its $1 billion plan to pick up video advertising platform Teads from European telecommunications company Altice, after the United Kingdom's competition enforcer gave the transaction its blessing.
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January 31, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The U.S. Department of Justice challenged a $14 billion Hewlett Packard Enterprise wireless technology transaction, former President Joe Biden made one of his last acts blocking the Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel merger and a federal judge refused to grant the Federal Trade Commission a preliminary injunction against the Tempur Sealy-Mattress Firm tie-up.
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January 31, 2025
Brexit Five Years On: The Legal Landscape After Europe
Five years after the U.K. formally left the European Union, Law360 looks at how Brexit has changed the legal, regulatory and financial terrain.
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January 31, 2025
Ex-IP Co. Director Says Lawyer, Founders Hid $40M Takeover
A former director of a celebrity intellectual property licensing company has claimed in court filings that two fellow directors, aided by an ex-Russells Solicitors partner, concealed plans for a $40 million takeover to try to convince him to sell his shares on the cheap.
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January 31, 2025
Explosives Biz Plugs €200M Into Finland TNT Facility
Comprehensive explosives service company Forcit unveiled plans Friday to invest over €200 million ($207.4 million) into the construction of a new TNT facility in Finland, with state-owned private equity shop Tesi helping to negotiate investments in the production plant project.
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January 31, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Cravath, Gibson Dunn, Milbank
In this week's Taxation with Representation, Eversource Energy sells Aquarion Water Co., Diversified Energy Partners acquires oil and gas company Maverick, Lantheus Holdings buys Evergreen Theragnostics, and NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson becomes the majority owner in the Legacy Motor Club racing team.
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January 31, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen another claim by Woodford investors against Hargreaves Lansdown in the widening £200 million ($248 million) dispute over the fund's collapse, a solicitor barred for his role in a suspected advance fee fraud face action by a Swiss wholesaler, and The Resort Group, which markets investments in luxury hotel resorts, hit with a claim by a group of investors. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 31, 2025
JPMorgan Sues WeRealize In Widening Dispute Over JV
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit has filed a new claim in the investment bank's protracted battle with fintech business WeRealize, saying the company is planning to breach the terms of a joint venture shareholder agreement by acquiring another fintech firm.
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January 31, 2025
Activists Fear Trump's Paris Exit Will Boost BigLaw Deals
BigLaw could play a "pivotal" role in averting a climate catastrophe, but they are not heeding calls to withdraw from fossil fuel work as eco-campaigners fear deals will increase with Donald Trump quitting the Paris Agreement again.
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January 31, 2025
Jones Day-Led Heart Maker Buys Time By Raising €9.7M
French medical technology company Carmat said Friday that it has raised €9.7 million ($10 million) through a global offering days before running out of cash for its operations, buying itself a lifeline that will last until mid-May.
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January 31, 2025
UK Military Tech Co. Seals Acquisition Of Telecoms Biz
British defense technology company Cohort PLC on Friday said it has completed its purchase of satellite products business EM Solutions in a deal worth 144 million Australian dollars ($89.5 million) when it was announced in November.
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January 31, 2025
UK Engineer Smiths Group Eyes Asset Sales, Bigger Buyback
Smiths Group PLC said Friday it is prepared to sell and separate two divisions, as the industrial engineering company looks to streamline operations weeks after a shareholder urged for a breaking up of the business to boost profits.
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January 31, 2025
Freshfields-Led Spanish Travel Group's IPO Values Biz At €3B
Spanish travel technology company HBX Group said Friday that it has set a price range of between €10.50 ($10.90) and €12.50 for its float on Spain's stock exchanges, implying a market capitalization of between €2.66 billion and €3.03 billion.