June 26 (Reuters) - Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ) will sell its Australian retirement home operator Aveo to The Living Company for A$3.85 billion ($2.5 billion), the Canadian company said on Thursday. Aveo owns a portfolio of more than 10,000 units located across Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania. Since acquiring Aveo in 2019, Brookfield simplified the platform's...

* Japan M&A deals in first half more than triple in value year-on-year * M&A surge driven by management reforms, shareholder activism and low rates * Japan is relatively more insulated from global woes, bankers say * Asia M&A more than doubled to $650 billion in strong rebound By Anton Bridge, Miho Uranaka and Kane Wu TOKYO/HONG KONG, June 26...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders are to tell the European Commission on Thursday if they want a quick trade deal with the United States at the cost of Washington getting better terms, or to escalate the fight in hope of something better. A quick deal seems to be the preferred option for most, officials and diplomats said, as the EU...