Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Healius

15/12/2023 15:25

(Adds Epiroc, Airbus; updates Shell, Global Payments, RTL
Group)
       Dec 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1430 GMT, on Friday:

        ** Swedish mining equipment maker Epiroc  EPIRa.ST  said
it has agreed to buy Stanley Black & Decker's  SWK.N  STANLEY
Infrastructure for $760 million.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N3DA4BI
  
    
        ** Shell said it had agreed to sell its 37.5% stake in
the PCK Schwedt oil refinery, which supplies most of Berlin's
fuel, to Britain's Prax Group, attempting to draw a line under
its co-ownership of an asset majority-owned by Russia's Rosneft.
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N3DA1YL
  
        
  
        ** Payments technology firm Global Payments  GPN.N  said
on Thursday that it is not weighing an acquisition of peer
Shift4 Payments  FOUR.N , denying a media report of potential
merger talks between the two.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3DA2WF
  
        
  
        ** Airbus  AIR.PA , the world's biggest planemaker, is
in talks with French IT consulting firm Atos  ATOS.PA  to buy
its cybersecurity unit BDS, a person familiar with the matter
said, confirming a previous report by newspaper Le
Figaro. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nS8N3C908H
  
    
        ** European broadcaster RTL Group  RRTL.DE  said that it
would sell its Dutch subsidiary RTL Nederland to Belgium-based
DPG Media in a deal worth 1.1 billion euros ($1.21 billion) that
will also see the two companies enter into a strategic
partnership.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N3DA2FK
  

    ** British private equity firm Providence is considering
selling Globeducate, a school business based in Spain and worth
about 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion), newspaper Cinco Dias
reported, citing unidentified financial sources.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N3DA1VT
    
    ** Hong Kong's Vinda International  3331.HK  said 
Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto-owned Royal Golden Eagle
(RGE) has made an offer to acquire the tissue and diaper maker
for up to HK$26.13 billion ($3.35 billion).  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3DA00C
    
    ** Czech defence and industrial company Czechoslovak Group
has agreed to acquire an 80% stake in Italian high-end sporting
and hunting shotgun maker Armi Perazzi, CSG said.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N3D96HV
    
    ** India's Adani Ports  APSE.NS  said it will sell a 49%
stake in its Ennore Container Terminal located in the southern
city of Chennai to a unit of global shipping giant Mediterranean
Shipping Company for about 2.47 billion rupees ($29.65 million).
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3DA15I
    
    ** Australia's competition regulator has killed the $1
billion takeover of Healius  HLS.AX  by rival Australian
Clinical Labs  ACL.AX  in its fourth decision in the past year
to block a big ticket merger.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3D94LT

    ** U.S. lithium miner Livent Corp  LTHM.N  has acquired a
minority stake in the parent company of direct lithium
extraction technology firm ILiAD Technologies, the companies
said on Thursday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3DA0GA
    
    ** Brazilian energy firm Ambar Energia is set to buy
electric utility Copel's 81.2% stake in natural gas-fired power
plant UTE Araucaria for 320.7 million reais ($65.24 million),
the firms said on Thursday.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N3D93VO

 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy in Bengaluru)
 ((Rajarshi.Roy@thomsonreuters.com;))