Legal & General is to sell its Fairmont financial services business to Brown Shipley for £35m... [more]

BWD Securities is to acquire Dennis Murphy Campbell for £10m in order to expand its stockbroking business into the City of London... [more]

National Mutual the pensions company with 690 staff has agreed to a £370m takeover offer from GE Capital and will now seek approval from its members... [more]

Johnson Matthey is to buy Meconic the Edinburgh-based manufacturer of pharmaceutical chemicals for £147m... [more]

First Choice has acquired Tourinter the French holiday operator for undisclosed terms... [more]

Anite is to acquire Rox Mariehamn the Finnish IT services company for up to £0.3m... [more]

Haldane UK the Glenrothes-based manufacturer of timber handrails has undergone a management buy-out securing the future of 40 jobs... [more]

Hanover International is to acquire Acropolis Hotels which owns the CedarCourt Hotel in Bradford from Sirdar for £14m as part of a strategy to expand its Tweed Investments joint venture with Bank of S... [more]

CSS Stellar has acquired GEM the US consumer marketing consultancy for up to £21m in order to expand its sports management business into North America... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland has acquired the Italian and German motor insurance operations of Allstate of the US for undisclosed terms as part of a strategy to expand its Direct Line subsidiary into contin... [more]

PC Harrington has acquired the slipform operation of RMD Kwikform for undisclosed terms and the new Aldridge-based business will be known as Slipform International... [more]

Booth Industries is to acquire Jordan Engineering UK and Jordan Fabrications from MacLellan Group for about £4m... [more]

Media Square is to buy 80-20 Marketing the Evesham-based marketing consultancy with a turnover of £0.6m... [more]

Four D Rubber has undergone a £4.3m management buy-out backed by Bank of Scotland and plans to expand its cast latex sheeting business... [more]

Technology for Business has acquired Avenue Legal Systems the legal software company with offices in Fareham and Manchester for £3m.... [more]

Misys is to acquire DBS Management the supplier of IT services for £75m... [more]

KS Biomedix to acquire Avicenna Medica of Canada for £42m funded by a £16m share placing... [more]

Max Spielmann is to be acquired by Bowie Castlebank the Glasgow-based photo processing group that trades under the Klick Photopoint brand creating a combined chain of more than 500 outlets... [more]

Royal & Sun Alliance is to sell its Canadian life insurance business to the Maritime Life Assurance Company for £110m... [more]

Artisan has sold three regional contractors - Drivers Construction Gryphon Estates and Bickerton Construction - to Mea Corporation for £2.8m... [more]