Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Societe Generale SA

Tue 10:37

Oct 20 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Tuesday:
     
** Italy's second-largest bank, UniCredit CRDI.MI, said it was bringing its domestic securities services unit back in-house, two decades after outsourcing the business to Societe Generale SOGN.PA.
nL8N4660A4
     
** UK-listed Gulf Keystone Petroleum GKP.L said it will merge with Norway's ShaMaran Petroleum SNMS.OL in a $601 million all-share deal, creating one of the largest oil producers in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
nL4N4660C2
     
** Italian engineering group Maire MTCM.MI said its Nextchem unit had signed binding agreements to buy Swedish MEAB AB and German MEAB GmbH for a maximum amount of €8 million ($9 million).
nFWN4651G4
     
** Singapore's Keppel KPLM.SI said it would sell a 51% stake in K-Commercial, the entity that owns the Keppel South Central office building, to Keppel REIT KASA.SI for about S$611 million ($477.42 million).
nL4N4651QE 
     
** Tradeweb Markets TW.O said on Monday it will buy bond-trading platform Trumid for about $1.97 billion, as it seeks to expand its presence in US corporate bond markets.
nL4N4651KL
     

(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Miraanta Lowrance in Bengaluru)
((Rajarshi.Roy@thomsonreuters.com ))