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March 03, 2025
Brookfield Launches In UK To Tap Pension Buyout Demand
North American investment giant Brookfield Corp. said Monday it is poised to enter the U.K. pension transfer market, amid an increasing number of retirement savings plans offloading their liabilities to insurers.
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March 03, 2025
AXA Launches €1.2B Share Buyback After Profit Gain
AXA SA on Monday kick-started a program to repurchase up to €1.2 billion ($1.25 billion) worth of its own shares, after the French insurance giant unveiled a "very strong performance" for its 2024 financial year.
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March 03, 2025
Pension Insurer Utmost Appoints Schroders For £400M Book
Utmost Life and Pensions has appointed Schroders to act as asset manager for its retirement portfolio, after the insurer entered the bulk purchase annuity market last year.
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March 03, 2025
Packaging Biz Bunzl Extends Share Buyback By £150M
Packaging materials business Bunzl PLC said Monday it will extend its ongoing share buyback program by repurchasing a further £150 million ($190 million) worth of shares from investors.
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March 03, 2025
CMS Guides £2.8M Pension Deal For UK Careers Charity
The Careers Research and Advisory Centre Pension Scheme said Monday that it has secured a £2.8 million ($3.6 million) full buy-in with retirement financial services specialist Just Group PLC.
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March 03, 2025
Property Investor Assura Offloads £200M In Assets Since April
Healthcare property investor Assura said Monday that it has sold 30 assets for £200 million ($252 million) since the start of its financial year to reduce the debt used to pay for a £500 million hospital portfolio.
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February 28, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Skadden
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Blackstone acquires Safe Harbor Marinas, National Grid sells its green subsidiary in the U.S. to Brookfield, Apollo Global Management buys Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc., and Teleflex splits into two publicly traded companies.
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February 28, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the billionaire Zakay brothers, founders of Topland Group, become embroiled in a legal dispute with each other, Unilever sue three major perfume companies over alleged illegal price-fixing, and the publisher of Vogue magazine file an intellectual property suit against Cornucopia Events. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 28, 2025
Pearson Publishes £350M Share Buyback Program
Pearson PLC unveiled plans on Friday to reward investors with a share buyback program worth £350 million ($440 million) and raise its dividend as it reported a 3.5% rise in its pre-tax profit.
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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.