The Mail on Sunday's hardworking business section dug out this weekend's biggest deal scoop.
According to Amy-Jo Crowley's report, NatWest - the bank that was formerly known as Royal Bank of Scotland - is in the early stages weighing a takeover bid for FTSE 250-listed Quilter. Below is the link:..
Nick "Nicko" Miles of Montfort Communications is fast becoming Britain's hostile bid communications specialist.
The wily old flak has turned up as adviser to Garda World and private equity firm BC Partners, which has just announced a hostile bid for G4S. Below is the link:..
I was intrigued to read in yesterday's venerable Financial Times that the likes of News Corp, Fitch, Moody's and S&P Global are queing up to pay £1 billion of the owner of Mergermarket, one of Betaville's first employers. Below is a link to the FT piece:
https://www.ft.com/content/5a79d412-444d-11e9-a965-23d669740bfb..
Little old Betaville is kicking himself this morning and loyal readers may be wondering why.
Well, it's because BC Partners and Pollen Street Capital have just raised their hostile bid for challenger bank Shawbrook to 340p a share. Here is the link to this morning's press release:..
The Mergermarket Group is in advanced discussions to buy financial technology company TIM Group from its founders and investors, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Well-placed sources said the Mergermarket Group, which is being advised Deloitte, has effectively agreed a deal with TIM Group's founders, Colin Berthoud and Richard Koppel, to purchase TIM Group for around £30 million...
Looking over today's coverage of the Pollent Street Capital / BC Partners bid for Shawbrook I was somewhat dismayed that none of the mainstream business sections picked up on the fact that the private equity firms had actually gone "hostile" on challenger bank by taking their offer directly to shareholders...
XIO Group, a private equity firm backed by funds from mainland China, has held tentative discussions with BC Partners about buying Mergermarket Group, the online deals news and data service read by thousands of dealmakers around the world...