Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

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24/09/2026 14:40

Adds: Specialty Program Group, CDP
September 24 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Thursday:
    
** Specialty Program Group has acquired HCM Unlocked, a technology-enabled managed service provider with more than 200 employees. nL6N45G0RS
    
** Italian state lender CDP is in talks with Gulf investors including Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala to sell between 15% and 35% of power plant developer Ansaldo Energia, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. nL8N45F0KU
     
** France's Schneider Electric SCHN.PA intends to launch a voluntary public takeover offer for Bulgarian smart-home device maker Shelly Group SLYG.BB for €70 per share, the industrial group said.
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** A consortium backed by BlackRock BLK.N and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia Pacific data center portfolio for up to $25 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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** UK-listed Capricorn Energy CNE.L agreed to revised terms of a $396 million takeover offer from Norwegian oil firm DNO DNO.OL.
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** Belgian chemicals group Tessenderlo TESB.BR has completed a minority equity investment in US agricultural sciences firm FMC FMC.N, buying a 20% stake for about $403 million, the companies said.
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**  Vietnamese tungsten producer Masan High-Tech Materials said it would sell a 4.99% stake to US-based tungsten products supplier Elmet Group ELMT.O in a deal valuing the company at about $2.5 billion.
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** Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman is exploring a sale of insurance software provider Applied Systems that could value the company at up to $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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** British subsea technology firm Ashtead Technology ATAS.L on Wednesday said it has received a non-binding indicative proposal from Ember Infrastructure Management that values the company at about £498 million ($659.75 million).
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** Private equity group CVC CVC.AS has agreed to buy a minority stake in Prague-based internet infrastructure provider CDN77 in a deal that brings in external investment for the first time, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday.
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**  French automation and mail services company Quadient QDT.PA on Wednesday said it has concluded an agreement to sell its UK lockers business for €65 million.
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** India's Waaree Energies WAAN.NS will merge group-firm Indosolar INDL.NS with the company in a deal worth 9.5 billion rupees ($99.23 million), the solar module manufacturers said on Wednesday.
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 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Miraanta Lowrance in Bengaluru)
 ((Rajarshi.Roy@thomsonreuters.com))