Business Sale News in the Professional And Financial sector

Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander (KSF), the UK arm of the Icelandic bank that collapsed in 2008, has been placed on the market by its administrators Ernest & [more]

The sale of the infamous Mayfair property, former home to the In and Out Club, has attracted the interest of foreign investors including Monte-Carlo SBM, the Monaco-based hotel and casino operator. [more]

Pearson is considering options for its majority-owned global information provider Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) to include placing it on the market. [more]

A portfolio of buildings let to Royal Bank of Scotland, including the headquarters of Coutts on the Strand in London, is to be placed on the market for £ [more]

It has been predicted by the insolvency trade body R3 that the coming months could be the most perilous for businesses as the recession begins to ease off. [more]

Private equity industry veteran Jon Moulton is to raise £142m for his new investment vehicle when it begins to trade on [more]

Hugh Osmond, the entrepreneur who established the insurance group Pearl, co-founded Punch Taverns, and built up Pizza Express, is looking to generate £1bn for his new investment vehicle Horizon which will invest in distressed compa [more]

Lloyds Banking Group is going to sell Lloyds TSB Scotland as part of its agreement with the European Commission over the £17bn of state aid it received to help keep it running last [more]

The Government is expected to announce the closure of a quarter of the Land Registry's national offices, job losses of up to 1,500, and a possible sale of the department to the private se [more]

Paragon Group, the leading lender to professional landlords, is looking to acquire loan books from financial institutions failing due to the recession. [more]

Lloyds Banking Group could be forced to package over two million divested personal accounts under its Halifax brand and put it up for sale. [more]

London brokerage and corporate finance house KBC Peel Hunt has been placed on the market by its Belgian parent company KBC. Representatives from KBC are currently sounding out potential interest in the industry. [more]

Royal Bank of Scotland is considering resurrecting Williams & Glyn's, the high street bank it wound down in the mid 1980s, in order to sel [more]

RBS Aviation Capital, the plane leasing company owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, could be put up for sale after it was placed into a non-core unit with £230bn of bad loans, in order to be dispose [more]

An auction process has been initiated for Kleinwort Benson, the private bank and wealth manager, with a number of private equity and trade buyers having made the contender shortlist. [more]

After setting up his new business Max Properties in May, Nick Leslau has already found an attractive potential acquisition; Industrious, a £270m industrial property portfolio that went into administration in [more]

Much speculation surrounds a possible bid by Tesco for Northern Rock, as the Government attempts to sell the nationalised lender before the next general election. [more]

The Treasury is examining the possibility of selling Northern Rock in the autumn, which will be exactly two years after it was taken into public ownership caused by funding and liquidity difficulties due to the credit crunch. [more]

HBOS adviser Deutsche Bank is reportedly sounding out interested parties in Insight Investment, one of the businesses Lloyds acquired in the purchase of HBOS. [more]

UK Financial Investments (UKFI), the body that manages the government's holdings in UK part-nationalised banks, is considering selling some of its st [more]