A private investor acquired Commercial Buildings in Manchester from Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) for £5.1 million on April 19, 2013. Savills advised Aberdeen. The WHR Property Consultants LLP advised the purchaser in this transaction.

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) acquired Bakkavör Foods pizza manufacturing facility from a local authority pension fund client of Jones Lang LaSalle for £14.7 million on March 28, 2013. Buchanan Bond acted as real estate advisor to Aberdeen Asset Management.

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) entered into an agreement to acquire Artio Global Investors Inc. (NYSE:ART) from Royce & Associates, LLC, GAM Holding AG, Markel-Gayner Asset Management Corporation and other investors for approximately $180 million in cash on February 13, 2013. Under the agreement, Aberdeen will pay $2.75 for each outstanding share of Artio. As part of the transaction, each outstanding share of restricted stock of Artio Global and each restricted ... stock unit of Artio Global will vest at the time of closing and be cashed out. Artio's Global High Yield and High Grade teams are expected to join Aberdeen on completion of the deal. The purchase price will be financed out of Aberdeen's existing cash resources. Artio is liable to pay $5.7 million as termination fees if it accepts a superior proposal from a third party. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including U.S. antitrust approval, approval of a majority of Artio Global shareholders, the shareholders of the Artio Total Return Bond Fund and the Artio Global High Income Fund approving new investment advisory arrangements with a wholly owned subsidiary of Aberdeen. The Boards of Directors of Artio Global, upon the unanimous recommendation of its strategic review committee (the “Special Committee”) and the unanimous approval by the Board of Directors of Aberdeen have approved the transaction. Aberdeen is entering into Voting Agreements with certain stockholders of Artio pursuant to which, each of those stockholders has agreed to vote all shares of the Common Stock owned by such stockholder in the transaction. Artio shareholders, which own a combined 45% stake, have agreed to vote in favor of the deal. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the second quarter or early in the third quarter of 2013. The deal is expected to enhance Aberdeen's earnings from the outset. David K. Boston, Christopher J. Peters and David K. Boston of Willkie Farr & Gallagher acted as legal advisor for Aberdeen Asset Management. Barrington Partners and Conor Hillery and Usman Khalid of JPMorgan Cazenove Limited acted as financial advisor for Aberdeen Asset Management. John D. Amorosi, Michael Kaplan, Ajay B. Lele, Xiaoxi Lin, Christian Lang, Jesse Kramer, Harry Ballan, Edmond T. FitzGerald, Gillian Emmett Moldowan and Gregory S. Rowland of Davis Polk & Wardwell acted as legal advisors for independent directors of Artio. Alan P. Parnes and James P. Gerkis of Proskauer Rose LLP acted as legal advisor for Artio. Chris Spofford and Will Schoyer of Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as the financial advisor for Artio Global Investors.
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Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) agreed to acquire 50.1% stake in SVG Advisers Limited from SVG Capital Plc (LSE:SVI) for £17.5 million on February 14, 2013. In a related transaction, Aberdeen Asset Management agreed to acquire Artio Global Investors Inc. (NYSE:ART) from Royce & Associates, LLC and other investors for approximately $160 million (£102.43 million). Aberdeen will hold the right to purchase the outstanding shares of SVG from early 2016. The transaction ... is subject to regulatory consent and certain other customary matters and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2013. Tony Beare, James Olsen, Roland Doughty, Katherine Flower, David Ives, Alice McDonal, Ruth Fox, Selmin Hakki, Robin Ogle, Stuart Whitty, Jonathan Cohen and Tom Braiden of Slaughter and May acted as legal advisor for SVG Capital. The currency conversions have been made using oanda.com.
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A Middle Eastern private investor acquired office building 2 Queen Anne's Gate, SW1 from Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) for £13.2 million on January 23, 2013. Office building 2 Queen Anne's Gate, SW1 had total income of £0.82 million per annum. Simon Hall and Peter Trinder of Hanover Green acted for Aberdeen Asset Management. BNP Paribas Real Estate represented the buyer.

The shareholders of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) authorized a share repurchase program at its Annual General Meeting on January 17, 2013. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to 118,614,792 shares, representing 10% of its issued share capital. The minimum price which may be paid for each ordinary share will not be less than 10p, the nominal value of each ordinary share and the maximum price which may be paid for each ordinary share will not be ... more than 5% above the average middle market quotations for the ordinary shares taken from the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange for the five business days immediately before the date of purchase. The company is generally and unconditionally authorized to make market purchases as defined in Section 693(4) of the Companies Act 2006. This program will expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting. As of November 23, 2012, the company has 1,186,147,924 shares outstanding.
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Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) acquired site in Angel Row on January 5, 2013. Aberdeen Asset Management plans to turn the site into shops and student flats.

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (LSE:ADN) acquired 15 storey student accommodation redevelopment of a former Odeon cinema in Nottingham from Mortar Developments for £27 million on December 31, 2012. Lawson and Partners LLP acted as property advisor for Mortar in the transaction, while Knight Frank LLP acted as information agent to Aberdeen. John Condliffe, Anthony Newton, Paul Edwards and Jo Philips of Hogan Lovells acted as legal advisors for Hogan Lovells.

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