Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Aedes Ligure per Imprese e Costruzioni SpA

20/09/2021 20:50

(Adds Aedes, Illumina, Sopra Steria)
    Sept 20 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1950 GMT on Monday:
    
    ** Shares in Aedes SIIQ  AED.MI  jumped nearly 11% after
majority shareholder Augusto SpA said it had appointed
Rothschild as advisor for the sale of its entire 51.25% stake in
the real estate portfolio manager.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2QM3WX
    
    ** Illumina Inc  ILMN.O  expects an EU order to keep
recently acquired Grail Inc  GRAL.O  as a separate company, the
U.S. life sciences company said, hours after EU antitrust
regulators warned of interim measures for closing the deal
before their approval.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2QM3MU
    
    ** French IT company Sopra Steria  SOPR.PA  said that it had
not made any approach to rival Atos group  ATOS.PA  after media
reported the company was targeting Atos for a potential takeover
bid.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2QM3LZ
    
    ** Brooks Automation Inc  BRKS.O  would sell its
semiconductor automation business to private equity firm Thomas
H. Lee Partners LP (THL) for $3 billion in cash, scrapping
earlier plans to separate the business from its life sciences
unit. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2QM19G
    
    ** Brazilian conglomerate Novonor, controlling shareholder
in petrochemical company Braskem SA  BRKM5.SA , may sell its
stake in a share offering, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico
reported.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QM0LB
    
    ** South African financial services holding company Rand
Merchant Investment  RMIJ.J  said it would unbundle its stake in
two major local insurers and carry out a rights issue to narrow
a discount between its share price and its book value.   
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    ** Australia's AusNet Services  AST.AX  said it had opened
its books to an affiliate of Canadian infrastructure investor
Brookfield Asset Management after it received a higher
non-binding buyout proposal of A$9.57 billion ($6.95 billion).
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QL0JX
    
    ** A consortium led by Australia's Transurban Group  TCL.AX 
will pay A$11.1 billion ($8.06 billion) for a near half stake of
the country's longest auto tunnel network, giving it full
ownership of the asset and dominance of Sydney's toll road
network.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QL0JD
            
    **     U.S. private equity firm Advent International will
buy a controlling stake in Indian consumer electronics brand
Eureka Forbes for 44 billion rupees ($597 million), its parent
Shapoorji Pallonji Group said.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QL0B5

 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Deborah Sophia and Niket Nishant in
Bengaluru)
 ((DeborahMary.Sophia@thomsonreuters.com))