target

Cable & Wireless Communications

bidder

Liberty Global

£5,845m

10 dealmakers

target

Optos

bidder

Nikon Corporation

£265m

19 dealmakers

target

Andor Technology

bidder

Oxford Instruments

£151m

8 dealmakers

target

Phaunos Timber Fund

bidder

Stafford Capital Partners

£180m

11 dealmakers

target

Vernalis

bidder

Ligand Pharmaceuticals

£6m

12 dealmakers

target

Oncomed Pharmaceuticals

bidder

Mereo Biopharma Group

£45m

27 dealmakers

target

Refinitiv Holdings

bidder

London Stock Exchange Group

£22,177m

171 dealmakers

target

Consort Medical

bidder

Recipharm

£627m

36 dealmakers

target

Aggregated Micro Power Holdings

bidder

Asterion Industrial Partners

£63m

23 dealmakers

target

Interserve (support Services Arm)

bidder

Mitie Group

£190m

159 dealmakers

target

John Laing Group

bidder

Kkr & Co

£2,000m

93 dealmakers

target

Falck Renewables

bidder

Jp Morgan Investment Management

£1,305m

31 dealmakers

target

Homology Medicines (manufacturing And Innovation Business)

bidder

Oxford Biomedica

£63m

42 dealmakers

target

Contourglobal

bidder

Kkr & Co

£1,750m

61 dealmakers

target

Medica Group

bidder

Ik Partners

£269m

30 dealmakers