Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Standard Life

15/04/2026 23:01

Adds Brown-Forman and Johnson Controls

April 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2200 GMT on Wednesday:

** Johnson Controls JCI.N is exploring options for two businesses in its security division, including a potential sale valued at up to $4.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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** U.S. spirits group Sazerac has offered to buy Brown-Forman BFb.N for about $15 billion, a source familiar with the matter said, complicating Pernod Ricard's PERP.PA attempt to merge with the Jack Daniel's maker.

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** Trading firm Jane Street has committed about $6 billion for CoreWeave's  cloud services, marking the third major deal for the Nvidia-backed neocloud company in a week and underscoring surging demand for computing capacity.

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** Standard Life  has agreed to buy Dutch rival Aegon's  UK business for 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion), the companies said on Wednesday, expanding the British pension savings group's reach to 16 million customers.

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** Inszone Insurance Services has acquired Olathe, Kansas-based Insurance Resources Group, the company said on Tuesday.

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** State-owned oil firm Sonangol has not received any formal communication from Botswana signalling its desire to acquire a stake in Angola's new $6.6 billion Lobito refinery, a senior company executive said late on Tuesday.

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** Aon-owned NFP has acquired The Hamilton Group, a multidisciplinary insurance broker based in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey.

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 (Compiled by Sahil Pandey, Rajarshi Roy and Megavarshini G. Somasundaram in Bengaluru)

 ((Sahil.Pandey@thomsonreuters.com))