August 11 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Tuesday:
** Two affiliates of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group
signed a deal to sell Lotte Rental 089860.KS , South Korea's
largest car-rental firm, to U.S. private equity firm TPG, Lotte
said on Tuesday.
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** Commercial property insurer FM has acquired FortressFire,
a provider of wildfire intelligence that combines machine
learning and physics-based modeling, it announced on Monday.
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** South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI 006400.KS said it
will end its joint venture agreement with General Motors GM.N
in Indiana and acquire the U.S. firm's 49.99% stake, citing
weaker-than-expected electric vehicle demand.
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** Australian shipbuilder Austal ASB.AX said that Hanwha Group
had offered to buy its U.S. operations for up to $1.20 billion
as the South Korean conglomerate seeks to expand in the American
defence market.
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** The Royal Bank of Canada RY.TO and BMO Financial Group on
Monday agreed to sell jointly owned Moneris Solutions to
technology investment firm Francisco Partners in a deal valued
at C$2 billion ($1.44 billion).
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** BP BP.L has agreed to sell a 20% stake in a block that
contains the Trinidad portion of the cross-border
Cocuina-Manakin natural gas field to the country's state-owned
National Gas Company, the company said on Monday in an emailed
statement.
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(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Shania S Thomas in Bengaluru)
((shanias.thomas@thomsonreuters.com))