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July 30, 2026
Trustees of the pension plan of chemicals company Hickson International PLC have completed a bulk purchase annuity buy-in worth £208 million ($278 million), pension investor Royal London Group said Thursday.
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July 30, 2026
Property investor Hammerson said Thursday that it has bought a 50% stake in a shopping center in Manchester for £218 million ($291 million) and has launched a £190 million equity issue to help pay for the acquisition.
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July 29, 2026
Barclays PLC said Wednesday it has launched a new share buyback program of £1 billion ($1.3 billion), a day after it posted a profit before tax of approximately £6 billion for the first half of 2026.
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July 29, 2026
Standard Chartered announced the imminent start of a new $1 billion share buyback on Wednesday as the banking giant reported a strong performance for the first half of the year.
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July 29, 2026
UBS said Wednesday that it has launched a $3 billion share buyback program after the Swiss financial services giant reported a net profit of $5.8 billion for the first half of 2026.
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July 29, 2026
Insurance broker WTW has partnered with law firm CMS to establish a service aimed at broadening access to a £170 billion ($226 billion) longevity insurance market for smaller pension plans.
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July 29, 2026
Carmaker Aston Martin has completed a £180 million ($239 million) bulk purchase annuity buy-in, securing the pensions of almost 1,600 members, Aviva PLC said Wednesday.
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July 29, 2026
U.K. transport technology company Tracsis said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire rail software provider Mistral Data from operator FirstGroup for £48 million ($64 million), as the industry prepares for the nationalization of Britain's railways.
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July 29, 2026
Australian financial services group Perpetual said Wednesday that it has rejected a third approach from Swedish private equity unit EQT of 2.6 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion), but indicated that it would be open to an improved proposal.
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July 29, 2026
Seventeen Group has acquired Senate Insurance Brokers of Gibraltar as the U.K. insurance intermediary seeks to expand its presence in the British overseas territory and southern Spain.
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July 29, 2026
Private equity firm Apax Partners LLP will buy two businesses from Gerresheimer AG of Germany for €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion), the companies said Wednesday, as they seek expansion for the pharmaceutical packaging companies in the U.S.
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July 28, 2026
Glencore PLC's U.K. arm asked a London judge Tuesday to let it bring a claim against the collapsed former owner of one of the U.K.'s largest oil refineries, alleging it was defrauded out of $230 million worth of crude oil.
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July 28, 2026
Financial services group Tavistock Investments said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Plus Group, which provides agentic AI technology to U.K. advisory firms, for as much as £16 million ($21.3 million).
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July 28, 2026
Frasers Group PLC said Tuesday that the European Commission has approved its €2.57 billion ($3 billion) takeover bid for German fashion giant Hugo Boss AG, making the offer unconditional.
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July 28, 2026
A Bridgepoint employee group has sold approximately 2% of the investment company's shares for around £62.4 million ($83 million) in a secondary share sale, broker BNP Paribas said Tuesday.
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July 28, 2026
Inchcape PLC said Tuesday that it will add a £75 million ($100 million) share buyback to its existing £175 million program, increasing the vehicle distributor's repurchase program to £250 million.
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July 28, 2026
Private equity firm Cinven and investor La Caisse have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Optio Group Ltd., a specialty insurance managing general agent, from existing shareholder Preservation Capital Partners.
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July 27, 2026
Serica Energy said Monday that it will acquire its rival oil producer Pharos Energy for approximately £145.7 million ($193.85 million) in a deal that will expand its footprint to Asia and Africa.
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July 27, 2026
Scancell said Monday that it has raised £2.7 million ($4 million) from retail investors, taking the total amount secured through that share sale and a separate placing to £15.7 million.
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July 27, 2026
Trustees of U.K. defined benefit schemes should not view the completion of a pension buy-in as the end of their long-term plans, a retirement saving specialist warned Monday.
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July 27, 2026
Belgian-Dutch pharma company Argenx SE said Monday that it has agreed to acquire Forte Biosciences Inc. for approximately $2.2 billion, building on its existing investment in the U.S. company.
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July 27, 2026
Chemicals manufacturer Johnson Matthey confirmed Monday that it plans to return around £1 billion ($1.3 billion) to shareholders now that the £1.33 billion sale of its Catalyst Technologies business to U.S. tech company Honeywell is complete.
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July 27, 2026
IP Group said Monday that it will press ahead with its existing strategy after the company's largest shareholder, a U.K. retirement savings plan for railway staff, formally withdrew from a possible takeover.
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July 27, 2026
DCC Energy PLC said Monday that it is backing an offer worth up to £5.75 billion ($7.7 billion) from KKR and Energy Capital Partners, making it the latest London-listed company targeted in a take-private deal by U.S. buyers.
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July 24, 2026
Paramount Skydance Corp. took a fight over a preliminary injunction off the table Friday with a promise not to close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. until June 2027 or when a California federal judge rules on the merits of challenges to the deal.