Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Seagen

15/09/2023 21:09

(Adds Berlusconi, All3Media, Pipestone Energy and Pfizer)
       Sept 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Friday:
    
    ** The two eldest heirs of late media mogul Silvio
Berlusconi have agreed an open-ended pact which binds them to
vote together at the family holding company's shareholder
meetings, regulatory filings showed.
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        ** The owners of All3Media have formally kicked off a
sale process for the British television production company, five
people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
  
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        ** GMT Capital, the second-largest shareholder in oil
company Pipestone Energy  PIPE.TO , said it intends to vote
against an all-stock deal proposed by larger rival Strathcona
Resources as it undervalues the company.
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        ** Pfizer's  PFE.N  $43 billion bid for Seagen  SGEN.O 
will be decided by EU antitrust regulators by Oct. 19, a
regulatory filing showed. 
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        ** Hitachi  6501.T  has offered remedies in a bid to
secure EU antitrust approval for its proposed acquisition of
French infrastructure company Thales'  TCFP.PA  GTS railway
signalling business, an EU regulatory filing showed.
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    ** Britain's competition regulator cleared auto parts
provider LKQ's  LKQ.O  deal to buy Canada's Uni-Select after LKQ
agreed to divest Uni-Select's UK business.
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    ** Spanish industrial testing company Applus's  APPS.MC 
board of directors issued a positive opinion on a cash offer for
the company from Amber, a vehicle of infrastructure fund I
Squared Capital Advisors and TDR Capital.
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    ** Everton have been sold to 777 Partners, the struggling
Premier League club said, with the U.S. private equity firm
taking over from Farhad Moshiri in a deal reports said was worth
more than 550 million pounds ($685 million).
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    ** Toshiba's  6502.T  largest shareholder Effissimo Capital
Management has decided to tender its 9.9% stake in the $14
billion takeover offer by Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), a
source said, raising the odds of the bid succeeding.
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    ** Media entrepreneur Byron Allen has made a $10 billion bid
to buy Walt Disney's  DIS.N  ABC television network and assets
including the FX and National Geographic cable channels, a
spokesperson for Allen said.
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    ** The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
has extended the time it will take to consider a Brookfield-led
 BN.TO  takeover of Origin Energy  ORG.AX  until Oct. 12,
according to documents published on its website .
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 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Jaiveer Shekhawat and Pritam Biswas
in Bengaluru)
 ((jaiveersingh.shekhawat@thomsonreuters.com;))