Travers Smith has landed one of its biggest deals in recent years, advising Peel Holdings on its £771m acquisition of Liverpool-based company Mersey Docks & Harbour. Corporate partner Richard Skelton ...

Work on Liverpool2, a new terminal at the Port of LIverpool, has begun. More than one million cubic meters of material will now be moved by dredgers to clear a deep-water channel at the Port of ...

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Peel Ports, a division of John Whittaker’s privately owned property company Peel Holdings, has entered the £780m battle to take over the UK’s second-largest port operator, the Mersey Docks & Harbour ...

John Whittaker’s Peel Ports Investments, the ports and airports division of Peel Holdings, is paying 982p a share in cash for the business which will be delisted from the stock exchange. Bank of ...

LONDON -- Mersey Docks & Harbour Co. said Thursday it has agreed to a takeover offer from Peel Holdings PLC that values the company at £771 million ($1.41 billion; €1.15 billion), bringing ...

TOM Allison, chief executive of Clydeport, could be in line for one of the biggest jobs in the British ports industry as the Glasgow firm's new owner shapes up to buy Mersey Docks. Peel Holdings' ...

Mersey Docks this week said that discussions are taking place with a private equity house (believed to be CVC), which may lead to an offer of 925p a share. But there is speculation that property group ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. port operator Mersey Docks & Harbour Co Wednesday confirmed it has received an approach from Peel Ports, which "may or may not" lead to an offer being made for the company ...

British ports group Mersey Docks & Harbour Company says volumes handled by its Dublin subsidiary Marine Terminals dropped in the first half of this year. The company said the drop - to 38,000 units ...

HMS Mersey is celebrating her 10th birthday in the most appropriate place at Liverpool Docks. The Royal Navy offshore patrol and fisheries, oil, gas and windfarm protection warship arrived on her ...