Transactions UK

  • October 14, 2025

    Oakley Capital Invests £10M In Health Insurance Provider

    Oakley Capital Investments Ltd. said Tuesday its platform is investing in Italian private healthcare insurance provider ONHC. OCI's share of Oakley Capital's investment in ONHC is anticipated to be around £10 million ($13.3 million).

  • October 14, 2025

    Petershill To Sell Stake In VC Firm To Goldman Sachs

    Petershill Partners PLC said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell a majority of its stake in Industry Ventures to Goldman Sachs as a part of the global investment heavyweight's $965 million takeover of the venture capital investor.

  • October 14, 2025

    Malibu Life To Buy Texan Life Insurer TruSpire For $45M

    Malibu Life Holdings Ltd. said Tuesday that it will buy life and retirement insurance business TruSpire from Mutual of America Life Insurance Co. for $45 million to enter the U.S. direct annuity issuance business.

  • October 14, 2025

    Homebuilder Bellway Starts £75M Chunk Of Share Buyback

    Bellway PLC began a share repurchase program worth up to £75 million ($100 million) on Tuesday, the first phase of the housebuilder's wider £150 million share buyback designed to reward investors and reduce its share capital.

  • October 13, 2025

    Fund Manager Denies Fee Claim Over $300M Loan Deal

    An investment fund manager has denied owing $3.75 million to a finance adviser that claims to have introduced investors for the manager's fleets of supply vessels, saying that no deal was ever agreed for such a success fee.

  • October 13, 2025

    Software Co. Buyer Unveils €8M Deal For Client Data Tech Biz

    Software Circle on Monday said that it has bought a client management software business for up to €8.25 million ($9.5 million), as the acquirer and backer of software companies noted it has a "healthy" pipeline of mergers and acquisitions.

  • October 13, 2025

    King & Spalding-Led Sidetrade To Buy Aussie Rival For €37M

    French payments software company Sidetrade said Monday that it has agreed to acquire its Australian rival ezyCollect for up to €37 million ($43 million) in a deal guided by King & Spalding, as it expands to the Asia-Pacific region.

  • October 13, 2025

    Kirkland-Led Warburg Pincus To Buy Software Co. For €700M

    Private equity group Warburg Pincus LLC said Monday it has agreed to buy PSI, a German software company, for approximately €702 million ($812 million), to increase its presence in the growing global energy and industrial technology sector.

  • October 13, 2025

    7 Firms Guide €16B Merger Of UK, Greek Lottery Operators

    Allwyn International AG, the Swiss operator of the U.K. National Lottery and a Greek betting business said Monday that they would merge to form a multinational gambling group valued at €16 billion ($18.5 billion).

  • October 13, 2025

    Canal+ To Acquire Last Shares In MultiChoice In $2B Deal

    French media giant Canal+ said Monday that it intends to "squeeze out" the remaining shareholders of MultiChoice, a move to allow it wholly own the South African entertainment business after it reached a 90% share ownership threshold.

  • October 13, 2025

    UK Energy Biz To Buy North Sea Assets From BP For $232M

    Serica Energy PLC said Monday that it has agreed to buy two offshore assets in the North Sea from oil and gas giant BP PLC in a deal worth at least $232 million.

  • October 13, 2025

    Digital Bank Shawbrook Forges Ahead With London IPO

    Online bank Shawbrook Group PLC said Monday it plans to proceed with an initial public offering in November on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

  • October 13, 2025

    Engineering Biz Renew Buys Utility Contractor For £12M

    Engineering business Renew said Monday that its subsidiary, Excalon Holdings, has acquired a utility contractor for up to £12.3 million ($16.4 million), in a move to boost its business as the government pushes to decarbonize the electricity grid.

  • October 13, 2025

    Blackstone To Take 9% In Tritax In £1B Logistics Portfolio Deal

    Blackstone will take a stake of approximately 9% in Tritax, a real estate investment trust listed on the London exchange that is buying a £1 billion ($1.3 billion) logistics portfolio from the U.S. investment giant, the companies said Monday.

  • October 10, 2025

    No Taxes On $137M Failed Merger Payment, UK Court Rules

    A British microchip company doesn't owe taxes on $137 million it received from a U.S. company after a failed merger, a U.K. court ruled, rejecting HM Revenue & Customs's contention that the payment constituted a taxable disposal of assets.

  • October 10, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Sullivan, MoFo, Freshfields

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fifth Third Bancorp acquires Comerica in an all-stock deal, Qualtrics buys experience analytics firm Press Ganey Forsta, and SoftBank buys ABB's robotics division.

  • October 10, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Paddington Bear's creators and Studio Canal sue the company behind Spitting Image, Blackpool Football Club's former owner Owen Oyston bring a fresh claim against the club, and Mishcon de Reya sue a Saudi investment group.

  • October 10, 2025

    Investor Accused Of Forging Deal To Claim €75M In Shares

    An investment vehicle has alleged a businessman is refusing to return shares in a technology company that he hasn't paid for and has used a forged contract in an attempt to take holdings valued at more than €75 million ($87 million).

  • October 10, 2025

    British EdTech Biz Raises £13.5M In Equity

    Education technology company RM PLC said Friday that it has raised approximately £13.5 million ($18 million) through an equity offering that was launched earlier in the day.

  • October 10, 2025

    Freshfields Guides BASF On €7.7B Sale Of Coatings Biz Stake

    German chemicals producer BASF has agreed to sell a majority interest in its coatings division to investment company Carlyle and the Qatar Investment Authority, in a transaction that values the offloaded company at €7.7 billion ($8.9 billion), the companies said on Friday.

  • October 10, 2025

    CMA Probes Belgian Food Co.'s Purchase Of Bakery Biz

    The British antitrust authority said Friday that it has decided to investigate Belgian food group Vandemoortele's proposed acquisition of Délifrance SA from French cooperative group Vivescia.

  • October 10, 2025

    Engineering Firm Denies £20M Claim Over Contractors Deal

    An engineering business has denied owing a group of Northern Irish companies £20 million ($27 million) for its purchase of two overhead power line contractors, claiming it was entitled to refuse to pay after uncovering several problems with the businesses.

  • October 10, 2025

    Warburg Pincus Gets More Time For JTC Bid Decision

    JTC said Friday that Warburg Pincus LLC has been given a further two weeks to say whether it plans to make an offer to acquire the professional services company.

  • October 10, 2025

    Tinned Food Biz Princes To Raise £400M For London IPO

    Princes Group PLC confirmed on Friday that it will raise cash from retail and institutional investors for a flotation on the main market of the London Stock Exchange by the end of October.

  • October 09, 2025

    Ropes, Kirkland Guide $5.2B Novo Nordisk Liver Disease Deal

    Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it will acquire U.S.-based Akero Therapeutics for up to $5.2 billion in cash, expanding its portfolio into metabolic liver disease in a deal steered by Ropes & Gray LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP. 

Expert Analysis

  • How CMA Is Responding To UK Gov't Pro-Growth Agenda

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    With the U.K. government’s recent call for the Competition and Markets Authority and other regulators to better support economic growth, the competition policy landscape is shifting materially toward an emphasis on a more proportionate and targeted approach to merger enforcement, say lawyers at Macfarlanes.

  • What Latest VC Model Document Revisions Offer UK Investors

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    Recent updates to the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association model documents, reflecting prevailing U.K. market practice on early-stage equity financing terms and increasing focus on compliance issues, provide needed protection for investors in relation to the growth in global foreign direct investment regimes, say lawyers at Davis Polk.

  • What Cos. Must Note From FCA Bulletin On Leaking M&A Info

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    The Financial Conduct Authority’s recent bulletin on strategic leaks in merger and acquisition transactions, as the second such publication in four months, acts as a warning for issuers and their advisers to tighten up their current policies for handling inside information, say lawyers at Herbert Smith.

  • Key Takeaways From The 2025 Spring Antitrust Meeting

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    Leadership changes, shifting priorities and evolving enforcement tools dominated the conversation at the recent American Bar Association Spring Antitrust Meeting, as panelists explored competition policy under a second Trump administration, agency discretion under the 2023 merger guidelines and new frontiers in conduct enforcement, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • What To Know About FCA's UK Listing Rules Proposal

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    A recent consultation paper from the Financial Conduct Authority aims to streamline the securities-listing process for U.K.-regulated markets, including by allowing issuers to submit a single application for all securities of the same class, and aligning the disclosure standards for low-denomination and wholesale bonds, say lawyers at Debevoise.

  • Issues To Watch At ABA's Antitrust Spring Meeting

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    Attorneys at Freshfields consider the future of antitrust law and competition enforcement amid agency leadership changes and other emerging developments likely to dominate discussion at the American Bar Association's Antitrust Spring Meeting this week.

  • What To Note In EU Tech Transfer Agreements Consultation

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    Robert Klotz at Steptoe explains the European Commission’s main contemplated amendments to a regulation that exempts certain technology transfer agreements from European Union restrictions, the current political context around the ongoing reform, and as its potential consequences for businesses.

  • UK Refusal Of US Extradition Request May Set New Standard

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    The recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling in El-Khouri v. U.S., denying a U.S. extradition request, overturns a long-held precedent and narrows how U.K. courts must decide such requests, potentially signaling a broader reevaluation of U.K. extradition law, say lawyers at Dechert and Kingsley Napley.

  • Key Findings From EU Report On Antitrust Remedies

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    Although the European Commission’s recent report assessing the effectiveness of its antitrust policy on behavioral remedies is not binding, it may influence future cases and promote coherence, providing useful insights for national competition authorities and courts when considering remedies in their own jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.

  • New UK Order Offers Welcome Clarity To Crypto Staking Rules

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    The recently effective Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Amendment Order clarifies that arrangements for qualifying crypto-asset staking do not amount to a collective investment scheme, and by addressing an issue that curtailed staking activities in the U.K., facilitates the use of that practice, says Andrew Henderson at Goodwin.

  • How EU Competition Policy Will Affect State Aid Rules

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    The European Commission’s recent competitiveness compass policy indicates its ambitions for the European Union to become an economic powerhouse, leveraging a new coordination tool that would affect state aid rules and boost public support for green energy investments, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • Banker Remuneration Proposals Could Affect More Than Pay

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    The Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority’s pending proposals to reduce banker remuneration restrictions bring obvious personal financial advantages for bankers, but may have repercussions that result in increased scrutiny of bonus payments and wider changes to workplace culture and overall accountability, say lawyers at Fox Williams.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • EU Paper Urges Data Protection And Competition Law Unity

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    A recent European Data Protection Board position paper calls for closer cooperation among data protection and competition authorities, and provides valuable insight for businesses seeking to ensure compliance across an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Equal Rights Limit State Immunity

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    The Court of Appeal of England and Wales' recent determination that Spain’s London embassy could not dodge a former U.K.-based employee’s discrimination claims by invoking sovereign immunity reaffirms its position that employment and human rights should come before the privileges of foreign powers, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray’s Inn.

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