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XPS agrees to acquire Polaris Actuaries and Consultants Limited

XPS Pensions Group has announced that it has agreed to acquire UK insurance consultancy business Polaris Actuaries and Consultants Limited. The acquisition, which is expected to complete on 28 February, is being funded from the group's existing cash and available debt facilities. Cash consideration of £23.4m will be paid on…
Alex Pyatt
24/02/2025

Temple Bright advises relating to £390m loan note issuance by…

Temple Bright’s London office has worked closely with Davis Polk in connection with the high yield notes offering and credit facility refinancing by Boparan Holdings in October 2024, with Temple Bright providing the specialist pensions advice for the refinancing. Boparan Holdings is the parent of a food group which, alongside…
Rosalind Connor
15/01/2025

Temple Bright hires high profile City corporate partner

Temple Bright has expanded its London team with the hire of highly regarded corporate lawyer, Nick Cheshire. Nick previously worked at Ashurst LLP for 24 years in its London corporate practice, where he was a partner for 16 years. Nick has extensive private company advisory experience particularly in the banking,…
Nick Cheshire
08/01/2025

Temple Bright hires leading City commercial, IP and technology partner

Temple Bright has expanded its commercial, IP and technology law practice with the hire of high profile practitioner, Ben Chivers, in the firm’s London office. Ben was previously a partner at Travers Smith LLP, where he trained and became a partner in 2014. Ben has a broad-based commercial practice with…
Ben Chivers
06/01/2025

Real estate firm’s acquisition of “little gem of a building”…

Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has advised leading real estate asset and investment management business Oxygen Asset Management on a significant property deal in the heart of the City of London. Oxygen’s acquisition of 11 Leadenhall Street, a 15,117 sq ft freehold office building forms part of a…
Iain Macfarlane
22/11/2024

Selling a business to an Employee Ownership Trust

Introduction Consider this scenario: an entrepreneur has built a great business over the years; he’s ready to sell and there are eager buyers waiting. He can retire comfortably and not have to work again - a sweet dream, break clean. There are a couple of nagging issues though. Our entrepreneur…
Anthony Young
07/11/2024

W.H. Scott Group acquires RHC Lifting Limited

W.H. Scott Group is delighted to announce the acquisition of one of the UK’s premier lifting equipment companies, RHC Lifting Limited. The acquisition is a major step in W.H. Scott Group’s UK growth strategy and marks its fifth acquisition to date and fourth in the past three years. W.H. Scott Group is…
Alex Pyatt
17/10/2024

Logistics tech firm secures 7-figure funding to expand national network

Diamond Logistics – a UK company that has built a national network of delivery and fulfilment providers around its unique technology platform – has secured a seven-figure loan from Frontier Development Capital (FDC) to support its further expansion. Diamond aims to disrupt the logistics industry by bringing together small businesses…
Stuart Hutson
16/10/2024