Withers has announced plans to merge with New York-based Bergman Horowitz & Reynolds to create a leading international law firm focused on the private client market... [more]

Withers has announced plans to merge with New York-based Bergman Horowitz & Reynolds to create a leading international law firm focused on the private client market.... [more]

P&O Princess Cruises has announced a £4.2bn merger with Royal Caribbean Cruises, which will create a combined group with 41 ships and 40,000 staff... [more]

The Scottish Executive has announced plans to merge Scotland's three water authorities into a new group called Scottish Water next year, which will lead to the loss of about 1,000 jobs and a £2bn inve... [more]

Putsmans and Willcox Lane Clutterbuck are to merge to create a combined Birmingham-based law firm with 21 partners and more than 220 staff. ... [more]

St David’s Investment Trust, a £160m split capital investment trust managed by Aberdeen Asset Management, has managed to raise £33m in an emergency restructuring aimed at preventing a forced sale of a... [more]

Roxton Bailey Robinson the operator of hunting and fishing holidays has merged with Frontiers International of the US to create a combined group called Frontiers & Roxton with £40m annual turnover... [more]

Drinkwater Engineering and The Vehicle Application Centre have merged their neighbouring engineering businesses in Leyland with the loss of 14 jobs... [more]

Cordiant Communications and Publicis of France have agreed to merge their media buying operations which include Zenith Media and Publicis's Optimedia... [more]

Charnwood Group of Leicester has merged with Tubbs Group which has operations in Nottingham and Wiltshire to create a combined elastic manufacturing business called Stretchline with 500 staff... [more]

Bonhams & Brooks is planning to merge with Phillips to create a combined fine art auction group that will include Phillips' Bond Street saleroom and regional auction houses... [more]

Baron Corporation the Leeds-based software supplier is to merge with Euro System Projects of Surrey in a £2m deal that will lead to 18 redundancies among the 53 staff... [more]

Lovells is to merge with Paris and Brussels-based Simeon & Associes creating a combined law firm with more than 130 partners in continental Europe... [more]

Hammond Suddards Edge is to merge with Rossotto e Associati the Italian law firm with 44 lawyers... [more]

Newmarket Underwriting the Lloyd's managing agency with 35 staff has been acquired by Danish Re and has also decided to close its marine underwriting operation... [more]

Marconi is to merge its Ipsaris telecoms network with Easynet Group in a £330m reverse takeover that will provide Easynet with access to a national broadband network... [more]

Precise Communications is to merge with the Unique broadcasting company to create the Unique Communications Group providing a wide range of marketing broadcasting and corporate communications services... [more]

Cordiant Communications is planning to merge its Scholz & Friends advertising business in Germany with United Visions Entertainment in order to produce TV programmes that include commercial messages... [more]

Mastclimbers is to merge with SGB Powerlift to create a combined Glasgow-based business with 50 staff and a fleet of 500 mast climbing work platforms... [more]

Institutional investors in British Telecommunications have been told that the company is considering shelving the proposed flotation of its Cellnet mobile business in favour of a £50 billion merger wi... [more]