Acquisition Resources

Buyout group Lyceum has hired NM Rothschild to advise on the sale of its Asquith Court chain of nurseries, it was reported. A minimum asking price of £100m was suggested for the chain of UK-based nurs... [more]

Hydro is to sell its aluminium car parts factory in Worcester to Holden Lightweight, securing the future of 130 jobs.... [more]

Laird is to sell its security systems division to Lupus Capital for £242m, in order to focus on the manufacture of electromagnetic shields for mobile phones.... [more]

Oakdale Bakeries has sold its cake factories in Wigan and Doncaster out of administration to BakeSense Bakeries of Wilmslow, securing the future of 250 jobs.... [more]

Towry Law has bought the financial services advisory division of Baker Tilly for £9.5m, with the transfer of 41 wealth advisers.... [more]

It was reported by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Commerzbank, the listed German banking giant, is close to selling its UK-based asset management subsidiary JupiterThe sale contracts are ready t... [more]

UK electronics firm Laird Group announced the divestment of its security unit to Lupus Capital, the AIM-listed turnaround firm, for £242.5m. ... [more]

Mobestar Holdings has acquired the trade and assets of Mobile Life, the Bristol-based developer of software for mobiles, for £0.3m.... [more]

MAMA Group has acquired the Forum music and entertainment venue in London from Mean Fiddler for £1m.... [more]

Akcros Chemicals has been sold by Akzo Nobel to investment firm GIL Investments for undisclosed terms, including 160 staff at sites in Manchester and the US.... [more]

Private equity firm 3i has sold the off-street, airport and railway divisions of its National Car Parks business to a Macquarie Bank European infrastructure fund for £790m.... [more]

BOC Edwards, the vacuum pump manufacturer with 1,350 staff in Sussex, is to be sold by Linde to US investment firm CCMP Capital for £460m.... [more]

NCP, the chain of 850 car parks, has been sold by 3i to Macquarie Bank for £790m, but 3i will retain the NCP Services division.... [more]

US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice has reportedly put its European food distribution business, Brakes Bros, up for sale.... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes, is thought to be considering the sale of its drinks business to guard against a potential hostile takeover.... [more]

Euromoney Institutional Investor has sold Raven Fox, the duty-free and luxury goods publishing business with gross assets of £0.7m, to Metropolis Group for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Cory Environmental, the London-based waste management group with 1,300 staff and ten landfill sites, has been sold by Montagu Private Equity to a consortium led by ABN Amro for £588m.... [more]

Rexam has agreed to sell its glass business to Irish glassmaker Ardagh for €660m (£449m), in a deal that will double Ardagh in size and create the third largest glassmaker in Europe. The sale is subje... [more]

Sir Ray Tindle could reportedly put some of his UK local newspaper and radio assets up for sale. Tindle, now aged 81, plans to step back from the business this year and will scale down his empire of 2... [more]

Trinity Mirror, the UK newspaper group currently in the process of selling off three of its divisions, is likely to hold on to the printing presses and archive libraries of the newspapers that are for... [more]