Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Momentive Global

01/12/2021 11:34

Dec 1 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions
and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Wednesday:
    
    ** Software group Blue Prism  PRSMB.L  agreed to a 1.24
billion pounds ($1.65 billion) takeover offer from SS&C
Technologies  SSNC.O , withdrawing its backing for a bid from
rival suitor Vista.
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    ** German online pet supplies retailer Zooplus  ZO1G.DE 
recommended its remaining shareholders accept the delisting
tender offer by Hellman & Friedman (H&F) and EQT for 480 euros
($542.59) per share.
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    ** British private equity firm CVC Capital Partners said it
has pulled out of takeover talks with Dutch financial services
company Intertrust  INTER.AS .
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    ** Online trading platform IG Group  IGG.L  said it was
planning to sell its short-term options trading platform NADEX
and crypto stock exchange Small Exchange for $216 million to
Crypto.com's Forix Dax Markets.
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    ** French healthcare company Sanofi  SASY.PA  said it would
buy Austrian group Origimm Biotechnology, a move that will add a
potential first-in-class vaccine candidate to treat acne to its
pipeline.
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    ** Cryptocurrency company CoinShares International  CS.ST 
has agreed to buy French fintech Napoleon Crypto SAS for around
13.9 million euros ($15.8 million), as the booming
cryptocurrency sector continues to attract investors' money.
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    ** Activist investment firm Jana Partners said on Tuesday it
had urged Zendesk Inc  ZEN.N  to abandon a deal to buy Momentive
Global Inc  MNTV.O , the parent of online survey portal
SurveyMonkey.
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 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Ruhi Soni in Bengaluru)
 ((Ruhi.Soni@thomsonreuters.com;))