NM Rothschild is to send out a sales memorandum on Westminster Healthcare, the 3i-owned nursing home operator being auctioned for about £450m. Private equity groups have made aggressive inroads into t... [more]

Shell is considering the sale of its stake in Intergen, the global power-station business it set up in 1995 with the project-management specialist Bechtel. The business is potentially worth up to £3.2... [more]

Barclays has acquired Juniper, the US credit card company, from CIBC for £160m... [more]

Connaught has acquired Maginnis, the Glasgow-based maintenance services company with 162 staff, for £2.5m... [more]

Three Irish radio stations have been put up for sale over the summer months: LMFM; Highland Radio in Donegal; and Shannonside/Northern Sound, based in Longford. Price tags are reported to range from €... [more]

Bradford & Bingley, the specialist motgage lender that is offloading non-core operations, has said it wants to sell the three remaining businesses still on the block in a single deal. The businesses a... [more]

Bradford & Bingley is to sell Charcol Aitchison & Colegrave and Charcol Holden Meehan, which have aggregate net assets of about £5.6m, to John Scott & Partners of Marlow... [more]

Business Systems Group has acquired the managed hosting and maintenance operations of Global Network Solutions, involving the transfer of 14 staff... [more]

Survitec, the supplier of survival technology, has undergone a £146m management buy-out backed by Montagu Private Equity... [more]

Shell has sold its fuels business in Peru, including service stations, industrial and marine fuels, to Empressa Nacional del Petroleo of Chile for undisclosed terms... [more]

ARM Holdings is to acquire Axys Design Automation, the US supplier of system modelling and simulation solutions with 26 staff... [more]

Real Affinity has acquired Holly Benson Communications, the corporate marketing specialist with offices in Swindon, Oxford and Milton Keynes, for an initial £1.2m... [more]

Public Recruitment Group has acquired TeachLondon, the London-based provider of permanent and temporary teaching staff to 200 schools, for an initial £3.8m... [more]

Unwins Seeds, the Histon-based seed packing company, is to be acquired by Westland Horticulture of County Tyrone, securing the future of more than 50 jobs... [more]

Speedy Hire has acquired Coates Rentair UK, the power generation equipment hire company, for £6.7m... [more]

Spirent has sold MRO, its aerospace maintenance software business, to management for £2.9m... [more]

GKN is to sell its 50% stake in Aerosystems International, the avionics and software company with 400 staff, to joint venture partner BAe Systems for £14m... [more]

Barclays has acquired a 50% stake in Intelenet Global Services, the Indian business process outsourcing company, for £19m... [more]

Norwich Union has acquired HPI, the Salisbury-based provider of vehicle status checking services, for £120m... [more]

Sainsbury has acquired Jacksons Stores, the chain of 114 convenience stores in Yorkshire and the Midlands, for about £100m... [more]