Deals of the day- Mergers and acquisitions

IBF Financial Holdings Co

08/06/2015 11:05

June 8 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions 
and disposals were reported by 1000 GMT on Monday: 
 
    ** Switzerland's Syngenta  SYNN.VX  rejected a second 
takeover proposal from agrochemicals firm Monsanto  MON.N  on 
Monday, saying its U.S. rival had made no attempt to seriously 
address regulatory concerns over the potential deal. 
 ID:nL5N0YU0AG  
     
    ** Swedish rare diseases drugmaker Swedish Orphan 
Biovitrum's  SOBIV.ST  said it had terminated discussions over a 
possible offer for the company. Sobi said in late April that it 
had received a preliminary bid proposal, with Pfizer  PFE.N  
identified by Reuters as the potential bidder.  ID:nL5N0YU0OA  
     
    ** France's Saint-Gobain has agreed to sell its Verallia 
glass bottle making unit to private equity firm Apollo Global 
Management  APO.N  for an enterprise value of 2.95 billion euros 
($3.27 billion), it said on Monday.  ID:nL5N0YU0KL  
     
    ** German regional wireless operator Airdata has filed a 
challenge with the EU General Court to Telefonica Deutschland's 
 O2Dn.DE  8.6-billion-euro ($9.6 billion) acquisition of E-Plus. 
 ID:nL5N0YU12F  
     
    ** Telecoms company O2 Czech Republic's  SPTT.PR  majority 
owner PPF said on Monday other shareholders would get 78 crowns 
per share in its planned buyout offer, 58 percent above the 
stock's notional price set after the company spun off its 
infrastructure business last week.  ID:nL5N0YU0Y4  
     
    ** Asia Coal Energy Ventures (ACE) raised its offer price 
for Asia Resource Minerals  ARMS.L  by about 37 percent on 
Monday, winning support of large stakeholder Nat Rothschild and 
moving closer to a takeover of the troubled coal miner. 
 ID:nL3N0YU2X6  
     
    ** Telecom Italia  TLIT.MI  tower unit INWIT is interested 
in buying other tower assets as it seeks to play a leading role 
in any future sector consolidation following its listing on the 
Milan bourse.  ID:nI6N0YA02N  
     
    ** Waterland Financial Holdings  2889.TW , a mid-sized 
financial holding firm, said on Monday it plans to buy an 80 
percent stake in COTA Commercial Bank for T$8 billion ($258 
million) via cash, in the latest acquisition in Taiwan's 
fragmented financial market.  ID:nL3N0YU2XO  
 
 
($1 = 0.8989 euros) 
($1 = 31.1500 Taiwan dollars) 
 
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