Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Eurofins Scientific SE

14/04/2026 14:41

Adds: Shell, BAWAG Group, Deutsche Boerse, Evergrande Group, Avanos Medical; Updates: Yancoal Australia, Amazon

April 14 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Tuesday:

** Shell  is in advanced talks with Abu Dhabi's state oil company ADNOC to sell its retail fuel stations in South Africa Gas in a deal likely to be valued at about $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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** BAWAG Group  will buy Irish retail lender Permanent TSB  for 1.62 billion euros ($1.92 billion) in a deal that will widen the Austrian bank's European footprint and allow the Irish government to exit its last bank holding from the financial-crisis-era.

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** Yancoal Australia , <3668.HK> said it has agreed to acquire an 80% stake in the Kestrel coking coal mine in Queensland for up to $2.4 billion, a move that strengthens its position as one of the country's largest coal miners.

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** Amazon.com  said it would acquire Globalstar  in an $11.57 billion deal, bolstering its fledgling satellite business as it looks to take on Elon Musk-led bigger rival Starlink.

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** German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse  said it had acquired a 200 million dollar stake in US-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.

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** China Evergrande Group's liquidators have entered an exclusivity agreement with a selected bidder to sell the developer's majority stake in its property management unit <6666.HK>, an exchange filing showed.

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** Avanos Medical  said it has agreed to be bought by affiliates of American Industrial Partners (AIP) in an all-cash deal worth about $1.27 billion.

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** France's Eurofins  said it has agreed to sell its electrical and electronic testing unit to UL Solutions for an enterprise value of 575 million euros ($677 million).

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** Norway's Equinor  said it has sold 12.9 million shares in solar energy group Scatec  for around 1.6 billion Norwegian crowns ($169.31 million), completing a transaction first flagged on Monday.

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** German software and AI provider Nemetschek  will acquire construction-management software provider Heavy Construction Systems Specialists (HCSS) from Thoma Bravo, the companies said on Monday.

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 (Compiled by Sahil Pandey and Rajarshi Roy in Bengaluru)

 ((Sahil.Pandey@thomsonreuters.com))