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May 05, 2026
Westmount Energy Ltd. said Tuesday it is supporting Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas' proposed takeover of the privately held JHI Associates Inc., a company in which it has been a long-term stakeholder.
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May 05, 2026
Bakkavor Foods Ltd. has completed a £160 million ($217 million) full scheme buy-in with its pension program, securing the retirement benefits of the plan's 2,216 members, U.K. pensions insurer Rothesay said Tuesday.
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May 05, 2026
The former owner of a traffic management company has rejected claims he owes £6.2 million ($8.4 million) for misleading the buyer of the business about the status and decline of a major client relationship.
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May 05, 2026
Amrize confirmed on Tuesday that it will kick off a $1 billion share repurchase program after the building materials business reported improved revenue.
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May 05, 2026
Vodafone Group PLC will buy out CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. for £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) to become the sole owner of their £13.85 billion VodafoneThree U.K. telecoms joint venture, the companies said Monday.
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May 05, 2026
Duane Morris LLP said Tuesday that it has hired a team of three lawyers from Clyde & Co. LLP to help rebuild the firm's corporate practice in London following attrition from retirements.
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May 01, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 01, 2026
IT services company Redcentric said Friday that it has completed the sale of its data center business to an affiliate of Deutsche Bank for approximately £123 million ($168 million), marking its exit from the data center operations.
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May 01, 2026
Insurers could be forced to hike prices for bulk purchase annuity deals as a result of a crackdown by regulators on risky forms of offshore reinsurance, analysts said Friday.
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May 01, 2026
Johnson Matthey defeated on Friday a claim that it acted fraudulently in the £325 million ($444 million) sale of one of its pharmaceutical businesses, despite a finding by a London court that the chemicals business had failed to disclose to the buyer significant details about the transaction.
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May 01, 2026
Britain's financial regulator has approved Swedish investor Verdane Fund Manager AB's £185.7 million ($253 million) acquisition of Augmentum Fintech, the venture capital trust said Friday.
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May 01, 2026
Banco Santander SA said Friday it has finalized its £2.86 billion ($3.9 billion) acquisition of TSB from Banco de Sabadell, in one of the biggest deals in Britain's banking sector in years.
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May 01, 2026
McBride PLC said Friday it has kicked off a share repurchase program worth up to £15.5 million ($21.1 million) — the second phase of the cleaning products business' wider £20 million buyback that it expects will lower its share capital.
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May 01, 2026
The owner of the Daily Mail has agreed to sell its U.S. property data business Trepp Inc. for $1 billion in cash to financial services provider Fitch Group Inc.
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April 30, 2026
A pair of door manufacturers ended a landmark private merger challenge, state enforcers are gearing up for a potential Live Nation breakup bid following a crucial jury win, and a separate group of states and DirecTV are challenging Nexstar's $6.2 billion deal for rival broadcaster Tegna.
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April 30, 2026
A Gymshark co-founder has sued his former business partners in Abyl, another sportswear brand he helped launch, accusing them of hanging him out to dry after he refused to sell 10% of his shares to move forward with an initial public offering.
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April 30, 2026
SoftBank Robotics UK has accused two former directors of a firm it co-owned of inflating earnings to trick it into buying their shares, hitting back at their £8 million ($11 million) claim that it wrongly forced them out.
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April 30, 2026
Consumer goods giant Unilever said Thursday that it is launching a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) share buyback program as it reported strong results for the first quarter of 2026.
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April 30, 2026
Schroders Capital has said one of its investment vehicles has committed more than £100 million ($135.2 million) of pension capital and government-backed money to a range of British technology and artificial intelligence startups.
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April 30, 2026
United Utilities said on Thursday that it is planning to raise £800 million ($1 billion) to fund the equity element of a £2.5 billion government-mandated investment program to fund, build and upgrade water infrastructure in England and Wales.
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April 30, 2026
Whitbread PLC unveiled a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) shareholder return program on Thursday as part of a sweeping five-year cost saving plan to boost margins for Britain's largest hotel operator.
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April 30, 2026
Lazard Inc. said Thursday that it will buy London-based Campbell Lutyens for $575 million to create a global private capital advisory unit.
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April 30, 2026
DCC PLC said Thursday it has rejected a preliminary £4.95 billion ($6.7 billion) takeover bid from a consortium led by private equity firms Energy Capital Partners LP and KKR, because the proposal significantly undervalues the Irish energy distributor.
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April 29, 2026
The number of U.K. businesses near collapse increased by almost 37% with rising taxes ahead of the economic fallout of the Iran war, an insolvency firm warned in a report Wednesday.
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April 29, 2026
1Spatial said Wednesday that its approximately £87.1 million ($118 million) sale to VertiGIS, a portfolio company of U.S. technology investor Battery Ventures, has been completed, triggering the suspension of the British mapping software business' shares from trading.