Action Sports Media is to merge with Permanent Publishing and 4130 Publishing to create a combined extreme sports publishing group with 24 magazines.... [more]

Maxwell Batley is to merge with Winward Fearon to create a combined London-based property law firm called Maxwell Winward with 90 staff.... [more]

Bank Restaurant Group is to acquire the Individual Restaurant Company in a reverse takeover deal worth up to £15m, creating a combined chain of 20 restaurants.... [more]

CareTech has acquired 13 freehold care homes in Kent from Counticare Holdings and Hazeldene for £15m, taking its total network to 127.... [more]

Atteys has merged with Taylors of Sheffield to create a combined legal firm with nine offices and more than 300 staff.... [more]

Silvanus Services has merged with Landscapes Southwest of Calstock, creating a combined environmental contracting group with 100 staff at seven offices across the South West and Midlands.... [more]

Mouchel Parkman is to acquire the Hornagold & Hills partnership for up to £11m (Ewan Group for up to £11m, Traffic Support Limited for up to £26m) and , in order to expand its highways, water and mana... [more]

Derwent Valley, the London commercial property developer, is to acquire property firm London Merchant Securities in a deal worth £1bn after seeing off competition from Great Portland Estates.... [more]

John Menzies has acquired Express Baggage, the Heathrow-based provider of luggage services, in order to expand its Menzies Aviation subsidiary.... [more]

Hill Dickinson has merged with Hill Taylor Dickinson, creating a combined law firm with more than 900 staff at offices in the North West and London.... [more]

Townends Chartered Accountants of Goole has merged with Robinson & Co of York to create a combined accountancy group with more than 80 staff.... [more]

Kwik Save has acquired 45 stores from Somerfield, taking its total chain to 229, and has also finalised a £30m refinancing package.... [more]

Scrivens has acquired Ronald Brown Group, the chain of 21 opticians in London and the South East, for undisclosed terms, taking its total chain to 138.... [more]

Riverdale Paper has expanded its paper recycling business with the acquisition of the former Severnside processing operation at Thornley in Durham for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Vantis has acquired the non-audit business of Sharles Group of London for up to £2.5m, in order to expand its accounting and tax advisory business.... [more]

Go-Ahead has acquired Docklands Minibuses for £3m, in order to expand its London General bus subsidiary.... [more]

Nationwide is to acquire the Bournemouth-based Portman Building Society in a £1.2bn merger, creating a combined group with 827 branches.The merger will be the largest building society merger ever to t... [more]

Jourdan has acquired Clinipak of Buckinghamshire for £2.2m, in order to expand its Westfield Medical sterilisation packaging material business. Bourne End-based Clinipak is owned by husband and wife t... [more]

Cushman & Wakefield has acquired Andrew Mayer Tyser for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its property investment team in the City of London.... [more]

Ultimate Leisure has acquired The Attic bar in Newcastle city centre from Absolute Leisure for £2.6m, taking its total chain to 36.... [more]