Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Royal Bank of Canada

11/08/2026 20:35

 (Adds MARI Group, Marsh McLennan Agency, NFP and Kingspan)
    August 11 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by  19:35 GMT on
Tuesday:
    
** MARI Group said it has signed a deal to acquire British West
End theater operator ATG Entertainment, in the latest
acquisition by the global live events company founded by
Hollywood power broker Ari Emanuel last year.
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** Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) has agreed to acquire Iowa-based
Accel Holdings, an independent insurance and advisory firm with
130 employees.
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** NFP has acquired the retail cannabis business of Frontier
Risk Group, the Aon-owned company said.
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** Irish building materials company Kingspan  KSP.I  said it
would acquire power management systems maker BMC Manufacturing
for an initial upfront payment of €850 million ($980.99 million)
on a debt-free, cash-free basis.
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** Joby Aviation  JOBY.N  said it would buy defense technology
company Resonant Sciences for about $500 million, as it looks to
scale its business in a growing defense market.
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** Xylem  XYL.N  said it would buy valve- and pump-maker
Indicor's Cornell Pump and Roper Pump businesses for $1.46
billion, expanding its industrial and municipal pumping
operations.
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** 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 .
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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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