** Shares of transport equipment lease provider Triton
International Ltd TRTN.N up 28% at $80.65 premarket
** Co says it will be taken private by Brookfield
Infrastructure Partners L.P. BIP.N in a $4.7 bln
cash-and-stock deal
** Brookfield will pay $85 per share to Triton shareholders
of which $68.50 will be in cash and $16.50 in BIP shares
** Including debt, the deal is valued at $13.3 bln
** Shares of BIP down slightly in premarket trade
** Up to Tuesday's close, TRTN was down 8.4% YTD while BIP
was up nearly 12%
(Reporting by Anne Florentyna Gnanaraja Sekar in Bengaluru)
((AnneFlorentyna.GnanarajaSekar@thomsonreuters.com;))