Ali Mirza

LONDON: Aurora Investment Trust plc has announced a proposed merger with Artemis Alpha Trust plc. The boards of both companies have agreed on the heads of terms for this combination, which aims to consolidate the assets of Artemis Alpha with those of Aurora.

LONDON: abrdn Property Income Trust Limited (API) has entered into a significant agreement with GoldenTree Asset Management LP for the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, abrdn Property Holdings Limited (APH). This transaction includes the sale of 39 assets, representing API's entire investment property portfolio, except for its interest in the land at Far Ralia. The deal, valued at £351 million, will see API's debt facility with RBSI transferred to GoldenTree.

LONDON: Mpac Group plc (AIM: MPAC) announced that its indirectly wholly owned subsidiary Mpac Bidco B.V., has entered into an acquisition agreement with the sellers to conditionally acquire the entire issued share capital of Elstar International B.V. a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands that operates under the name CSi Palletising.

LONDON: Brookfield Global Asset Management has reached agreement to acquire Tritax EuroBox plc in a £557 million deal.

LONDON: Oxford Metrics plc (LSE: OMG), the smart sensing and software company announced the acquisition of The Sempre Group Holdings Ltd, a measurement specialist solving manufacturing challenges across multiple industries.

LONDON: Van Elle Holdings plc (AIM: VANL), the UK's largest ground engineering contractor, has acquired the entire issued ordinary share capital of Albion Drilling Holdings Limited, a market leading specialist piling and drilling business, for total consideration of up to £3.5m, of which £0.5m is net cash acquired.

LONDON: Zinc Media Group plc (AIM: ZIN) has announced the acquisition of Raw Cut Ventures Ltd, which owns Raw Cut Television, Raw Cut Distribution, and Tomas TV a leading independent television production and distribution company for an initial net consideration of £1.0m to be satisfied by the issue of 1,541,622 Zinc new ordinary shares.

LONDON: Solid State plc (AIM: SOLI), the specialist value-added component supplier and design-in manufacturer of computing, power, and communications products, announced the acquisition of Q-Par Antennas USA LLC for a maximum consideration of up to $2.0m.

LONDON: Zegona Communications plc (LSE: ZEG) announced Vodafone ONO, S.A.U. (Vodafone Spain) and Telefónica de España, S.A.U. have today signed a binding contract to create a new fibre network company in Spain.

LONDON: Victoria PLC, (LSE: VCP) the international designers, manufacturers and distributors of innovative flooring, has sold