Public M&A and equity capital markets
- Rathbones on its £2bn all-share combination with Investec Wealth & Investment
- DX (Group) on the £315m recommended cash takeover by H.I.G. Europe
- DBAY on its cash offer for Finsbury Food Group
- Stagecoach on the recommended all-share bid by National Express and the recommended competing £595m all-cash offer by Pan-European Infrastructure Fund III
- MGM Resorts on its withdrawn proposed £8.1bn offer for Entain
- The UK Takeover Panel on the £8.1bn hostile offer for GKN by Melrose Industries
- AbbVie on its £32bn offer for Shire
- Curtis Banks on the recommended cash offer by Nucleus Financial
- Xpediator on the recommended takeover by a consortium including BaltCap and Cogels
- Fossa Bidco, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asterion Industrial Infra Fund I, FCR on its £63.1m offer for AMP Clean Energy
- Lonmin on various matters, including: (i) the recommended £226m all-share offer by Sibanye-Stillwater; (ii) its $407m rights issue and associated refinancing of credit facilities; and (iii) the distribution in specie of Glencore's 29% shareholding in Lonmin.
Private M&A, joint ventures and restructurings
- Macquarie Capital on its £200m acquisition of senior living accommodation from McCarthy & Stone and associated joint venture arrangements with John Laing
- Optal and its shareholders on its $1.7bn sale to Wex Inc and the associated sale of eNett
- BHP Group on its $505m acquisition of an additional 28% working interest in the Shenzi platform joint venture from Hess Corporation.
