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January 16, 2025
Petershill Partners Cuts Stake In General Catalyst For $726M
Investment firm Petershill Partners PLC said Thursday that it has sold most of its stake in General Catalyst for $726 million, seven years after putting its money into the global investor.
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January 16, 2025
UK Electronics Biz Buys German Rival For Up To €43M
UK electronic components maker DiscoverIE said Thursday that it has bought Burster Group, a German precision sensor manufacturer, in a deal worth up to €43 million ($44 million) in a bid to expand globally.
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January 16, 2025
UK Probes Keysight's £1.2B Offer For Telecoms Biz Spirent
Britain's antitrust authority said Thursday that it has launched a formal probe into the £1.16 billion ($1.42 billion) takeover offer made by U.S. technology company Keysight Technologies for Spirent Communications, a U.K. telecoms testing specialist.
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January 16, 2025
Fintech Co. IG Group Buys Investment Platform For £160M
Financial technology group IG said on Thursday that it has acquired online trading platform Freetrade for £160 million ($195 million), as the U.K. company aims to broaden its appeal to a wider range of clients in a growing sector.
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January 15, 2025
Maloney Accuses ICG-Backed Fund Of 'Intimidatory' Tactics
The chairman of one of Ireland's most successful tech businesses accused a unit of a giant private equity group on Wednesday of "reckless and intimidatory behaviour" following a falling out over an investment restructuring plan.
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January 15, 2025
Amex GBT Blasts Bid To Block $570M Travel Services Deal
American Express Global Business Travel Inc. told a New York federal court Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice case seeking to block its planned $570 million purchase of CWT Holdings LLC ignores the competitive landscape of the corporate travel management industry.
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January 15, 2025
Canada Greenlights $18B Viterra-Bunge Grain Deal
The Canadian government has approved grain and seed supplier Bunge Ltd.'s plan to buy global grain trader Viterra Ltd. for $18 billion, but with "extensive" conditions, including Bunge having to invest at least $520 million in Canada over the next five years.
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January 15, 2025
TowerBrook's £283M Deal For Equals Wins FCA Backing
British financial technology business Equals Group PLC said Wednesday that the financial regulator of the U.K. has given a green light to its £283 million ($346.5 million) takeover by a consortium of private equity firms, including TowerBrook Capital Partners LP.
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January 15, 2025
Slaughter And May-Led Fortress Ups Loungers Bid To £366.6M
U.S. investment firm Fortress Investment Group LLC said Wednesday that it has increased its cash bid for Loungers PLC to £366.6 million ($451 million) in a bid to persuade the shareholders of the British hospitality chain to accept the offer.
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January 15, 2025
Cellnex Telecom To Roll Out €800M Share Buyback Program
European towers and infrastructure giant Cellnex said it will reward investors with a stock repurchase program worth up to €800 million ($825 million) following the completion of the sale of its Irish business, advised by Spanish law firm Uría Menéndez.
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January 15, 2025
Travers Smith-Led Wealth Manager To Move To Main Market
Wealth manager Brooks Macdonald said Wednesday that it plans to move its listing from the junior to the main market in London in a bid to stem the flow of money leaving the business and broaden its source of new investors.
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January 15, 2025
Eversheds Helps Switch On Lighting Biz's £24M Pensions Deal
Pension Insurance Corp. PLC said on Wednesday that it has taken on retirement savings liabilities valued at £24 million ($29.3 million) from a plan sponsored by a British lighting business in a deal steered by Eversheds Sutherland and CMS.
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January 15, 2025
Clifford Chance, Wachtell Help Pfizer To Cut Haleon Stake
Pharmaceutical titan Pfizer has reduced its stake in Haleon PLC, the British healthcare giant, to 7.3% by selling shares worth £2.5 billion ($3 billion), a bookrunner for the sale said Wednesday.
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January 14, 2025
Orrick Adds Paris Tax Partner From Latham
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP added a former counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP as a partner in its Paris office, where she'll advise clients on the tax aspects of French and international transactions, the firm said.
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January 14, 2025
Maloney To Testify As Trial Over ICG Stake Opens
Irish investor Barry Maloney is set to testify over his shareholder dispute with a private equity giant after the start of the London trial Tuesday of his claim that it blocked him from forcing it out of its stake in a major software company to make him buy it out.
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January 14, 2025
Apollo, Standard Chartered Form $3B Strategic Partnership
Private equity giant Apollo and international banking group Standard Chartered PLC on Tuesday announced that they have formed a long-term strategic partnership under which the two will contribute up to a combined $3 billion to go towards clean energy and transition financing.
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January 21, 2025
Clifford Chance Hires M&A Pro Bruce Embley From Skadden
Clifford Chance said Tuesday that it has hired senior corporate lawyer Bruce Embley from Skadden in London as it looks to boost its transactions services.
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January 14, 2025
Darag Buys Loss Portfolio Of Troubled Insurtech Wefox
Insurance company Darag Group said Tuesday it has purchased a run-off portfolio of business from distressed German insurtech giant Wefox Insurance AG.
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January 14, 2025
Luxembourg Investor Sells Dunhill Parent Shares For £1.2B
Reinet Investments SCA said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its remaining stake in cigarette giant British American Tobacco PLC to institutional investors for approximately £1.2 billion ($1.46 billion).
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January 14, 2025
Building Software Co. Buys Tech Manager For Up To €8.4M
Eleco PLC, a U.K. maker of software for the construction industry, said Tuesday it has bought Irish maintenance and management technology company PMI Software Ltd. for up to €8.4 million ($8.6 million) to improve the service it offers clients.
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January 14, 2025
Security Screening Biz Thruvision Puts Itself Up For Sale
British security technology business Thruvision Group said Tuesday that it is launching a strategic review, which includes putting itself up for sale, as its current cash reserves of £1.5 million ($1.8 million) are set to dry out by May.
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January 14, 2025
Bird & Bird-Led Comms Biz To Buy German Rival For €196M
Gamma said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire SF Technologies Holding GmbH — a German business communications and software provider known as Starface — for €196 million ($201 million) as the U.K. company eyes expansion into the growing European market.
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January 13, 2025
BoE 2025 Pension Deal Focus Dubbed A 'Reassurance'
The Prudential Regulation Authority's continued focus on the bulk purchase annuity sector is a positive step in light of the rapid increase in pension deals over recent years, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP said.
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January 13, 2025
WJM-Led Packaging Biz Macfarlane Wraps Up Peer For £18M
Packaging company Macfarlane Group PLC said Monday that it has acquired Scottish protective packaging company The Pitreavie Group Ltd. for up to £18 million ($21.8 million) in a deal guided by Burness Paull LLP and Wright Johnston & Mackenzie LLP.
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January 13, 2025
Hill Dickinson Helps Bitcoin Miner Debut On London Exchange
Bitcoin miner Vinanz, which is being guided by Hill Dickinson LLP, debuted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on Monday after raising £1.5 million ($1.8 million) in a boost to the U.K. bourse.