Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Toshiba

15/09/2023 16:21

(Adds: Hitachi, LKQ  Updates: Applus, Everton)
       Sept 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Friday:

        ** 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 and Jaiveer Shekhawat in Bengaluru)
 ((jaiveersingh.shekhawat@thomsonreuters.com;))