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Deals of the day - Mergers and acquisitions
May 25, 2025 7:57 PM

April 28 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,

acquisitions and disposals were reported by 09:30 GMT on Monday:

** Shares in British meal delivery company Deliveroo ( DROOF )

jumped 17% in early deals, the first trading session after it

said it had received a $3.6 billion cash buyout proposal from

U.S. peer DoorDash ( DASH ).

** Merck KGaA has struck a deal to buy U.S.

biotech company SpringWorks Therapeutics ( SWTX ) for an equity

value of $3.9 billion, as the German company seeks to acquire

treatments for rare tumours to boost its cancer drugs business.

** Europe's Airbus has finalised an agreement to

take some assets from Spirit AeroSystems ( SPR ), both companies

said, completing a critical part of a transatlantic carve-up of

the struggling supplier with U.S. rival Boeing ( BA ).

** Italy's Mediobanca struck back in its fight for

independence with a 6.3 billion euro ($7.15 billion) offer for

wealth manager Banca Generali to be financed through

its stake in insurer Generali.

(Compiled by Anuja Bharat Mistry in Bengaluru)

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