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Law360 UK Transactions delivers daily news, real-time alerts and forward-thinking analysis on corporate transactions trends and deals in the U.K. and EU including hostile takeovers, friendly mergers, IPOs, buyouts and shareholder disputes – and the laws and regulation surrounding them.
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Latest News in Transactions UK
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December 05, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Mozambique sue the late tycoon Iskandar Safa's family and Privinvest amid the wider $1.9 billion "tuna bond" fraud case, Entain face a claim from a major U.S. pensions agency, and a Mexican lawyer accused of embezzlement bring legal action against Travelers Insurance Co.
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December 05, 2025
A&O Guides Stagecoach On £1.2B Pension 'Run On' Deal
Asset management giant Aberdeen Group PLC said Thursday it would take over as the sponsor of the £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) Stagecoach pension scheme, in a landmark deal steered by Slaughter and May, A&O Shearman and CMS Cameron McKenna.
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December 05, 2025
Goldman Sachs' Investor Petershill Leaves LSE
Petershill Partners PLC, a private equity investor owned by Goldman Sachs, said Friday that it will no longer trade on the London Stock Exchange after "significant" macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds forced it to announce the decision in September.
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December 05, 2025
Nordic Capital Denies Addere Entitled To Hargreaves Deal Fee
Nordic Capital has denied it is liable to pay £15 million ($20 million) to Addere Capital as a success fee for its takeover of wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown, saying in a London court filing that the financial adviser had not come up with the idea.
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December 05, 2025
M&A Falls By A Third In UK Insurance-Distribution Sector
Mergers and acquisitions activity in the U.K. insurance-distribution sector is set to have had a much quieter year, with acquisition volumes falling 34% in the first 11 months of 2025, according to a study published Friday.
Areas of Coverage
- MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSALS:
- Share swaps & cash acquisitions
- IPOs, Cash Calls and Buybacks
- Management buy-outs and buy-ins
- Leveraged-buyouts
- Shareholder agreements & Poison Pills
- Activist shareholders and proxy fights
- Venture capital and private equity deals
- Distressed M&A: insolvency, restructuring, bailouts
- AGENCIES
- The Competition and Markets Authority
- The Financial Conduct Authority
- The Pension Regulator
- POLICY & REGULATION
- U.K. Takeover Code under the Companies Act
- Financial Services and Markets Act
- Market Abuse Regulation
- The Enterprise Act
Readership
- M&A lawyers
- Commercial disputes lawyers at top law firms
- Executives and attorneys at insurance companies and corporate policyholders
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 and FTSE 350 companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies and companies
- Judges and court staff across the U.K.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals