Paramount Hotels, the operator of 13 four-star hotels, has been sold by Alchemy Partners to Dawnay Shore Hotels for £215m... [more]

Electra Partners Europe is to sell Safety-Kleen, the supplier of cleaning equipment, to US private equity firm JP Morgan Partners for £280m... [more]

HSBC has acquired Marks & Spencer Retail Financial Services for £762m, but M&S will retain 50% of the earnings from the store cards... [more]

MG Rover is to sell its car parts business to Caterpillar Logistics Services for more than £100m, which will involve the transfer of 29 staff and the retention by Caterpillar of the 390 Leicestershire... [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland has acquired Hanco, the operator of 5,000 cash machines, for about £80m... [more]

Snow & Rock, the operator of 11 outdoor clothing stores, has been acquired by the founder of the Forever Friends brand for undisclosed terms... [more]

Travelodge, the UK budget hotel operator owned by the venture capital firm Permira, is to raise £400m via a sale and leaseback of 136 of its freehold properties.In a pioneering move for a UK hotel ope... [more]

Ireland's largest bank, the Bank of Ireland, will possibly consider selling Chase de Vere, its UK-based independent financial advisor.The bank is working with KPMG, the consultants, on developing the... [more]

Lloyds TSB group, the UK's fifth-largest bank by assets, is considering selling its Argentine subsidiary. Such a move would end the bank's 140-year presence in South America's second-biggest economy. ... [more]

Speculation is growing that National Australia Bank is preparing a multi-billion dollar sale of its British Isle operations. Credit Suisse First Boston became the latest broker to suggest NAB may see... [more]

British telecoms firm Thus, whose main rivals are BT Group and Cable & Wireless, has announced the sale of its call centre business. It has been reviewing options for its Interactive scratch card bus... [more]

The fate of debt-ridden hotel group Queens Moat Houses is hanging in the balance as its bankers work round the clock to agree a sale and stave off bankruptcy, according to sources close to the process... [more]

Leeds United chairman Gerald Krasner has revealed the club's Elland Road ground is up for sale. Krasner, who took over four months ago, is proposing a sale and lease agreement in a bid to cut the club... [more]

Clipper Ventures is to acquire Zapcat Racing, the operator of power boat racing events, for up to £0.5m... [more]

Thus is to sell its call centre operations in Glasgow, Livingston and Horsham to Response Handling for £4m, which will involve the transfer of 961 staff... [more]

Greene King has bought 432 pubs from the Laurel Pub Company for £654m, taking its estate to 2,100 sites... [more]

Wilshaw has sold its magnet manufacturing operations to a management buy-out for £0.9m... [more]

Tarsus Group has expanded its media and exhibitions business with two acquisitions in France, including SECA for £1.3m and Solutions Linux for £2.1m... [more]

Specialist buyout financier Hutton Collins has emerged as the front-runner in the £50m auction of Wagamama, the Japanese noodle bar chain, being auctioned off by majority shareholder, Graphite.... [more]

Eliza Tinsley has acquired MH Berlyn Group, the Cradley Heath-based supplier of consumer products with 70 staff, for £2.2m... [more]