Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Asian Paints

12/06/2025 20:58

Adds Italiana Petroli, Omnicom-Interpublic and Tiktok

June 12 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday:

**  Italiana Petroli, which is currently in talks with three suitors interested in buying the oil refiner, is expected to take a decision on the potential 3 billion euro ($3.5 billion) deal around the end of this month, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. nL8N3SE1E6

** The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom Group OMC.N and Interpublic Group of Companies IPG.N to prevent the combined entity from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people briefed on the matter. nL4N3SF174

** U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that U.S. and Chinese negotiators meeting in London this week did not discuss the disposition of TikTok as a June 19 deadline looms for China-based ByteDance to divest the short video platform or face a U.S. shutdown.nS0N3P9061

** U.S. private equity fund Lone Star has decided to sell its 75% stake in Novo Banco to French banking group BPCE in a deal that would value Portugal's fourth-largest lender at around 7 billion euros ($8.14 billion), Portuguese economic news outlet ECO said. nL8N3SF0XG

** The Baldwin Group subsidiary Westwood Insurance Agency has entered an agreement to acquire Hippo's homebuilder distribution network, the company said. nL6N3SF0IA

** German biotech firm BioNTech <22UAy.DE> has agreed to acquire domestic peer CureVac <5CV.DE> for about $1.25 billion worth of BioNTech shares, it said, to boost its work on new mRNA-based cancer treatments. nL8N3SF0MG

** India's Reliance Industries  said it sold a stake worth 77.04 billion rupees ($900.8 million) in Asian Paints . nL4N3SF0NR

** Investment firm Gordon Brothers has acquired Pepco Group's  struggling Poundland business for a nominal value and will invest up to 80 million pounds ($108.5 million) to help fuel its turnaround, the companies said. nL6N3SF0BM

** A unit of Credit Agricole  has agreed to buy Petits-Fils, the leading provider of at-home services for seniors in France, from Clariane , it said. nTUABYKXKT

** Dana  will sell its off-highway business to Allison Transmission  for $2.7 billion, the auto parts makers said on Wednesday. nL4N3SE1CK

** An Italian court rejected an appeal by Banco BPM BAMI.MI which had challenged the suspension of a takeover offer it faces by rival UniCredit CRDI.MI, the court's website showed. nS8N3Q809P

** Apollo Global Management  and Irth Capital Management have approached Papa John's International  for a deal that would take the U.S. pizza chain private, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. nL1N3SE0XR

 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Padmanabhan Ananthan and Siddhi Mahatole in Bengaluru)

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