(Adds Wirespeed, Aquarian Capital, MEG Energy ( MEGEF ))
Nov 6 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on
Thursday:
** Abu Dhabi-backed financial investor Aquarian Capital has
agreed to take private U.S. life insurance and annuity provider
Brighthouse Financial ( BHF ) in a $4.1 billion deal,
culminating a sale process that lasted most of this year.
** A unit of Singapore Telecommunications has
offered to sell shares in India's Bharti Airtel in a
deal that could net about 103.5 billion rupees ($1.18 billion),
Bloomberg News reported, citing the terms of the offering.
** Charles Schwab ( SCHW ) agreed to buy private shares
platform Forge Global ( FRGE ), in a deal valued at $660 million
as Wall Street firms seek to meet growing investor demand for
access to high-growth startups.
** San Francisco-based Coalition has acquired Wirespeed, a
cybersecurity platform built to triage threat detections, to
combine its automated managed detection and response (MDR) into
its suite of cyber solutions.
** Canadian oil sands producer MEG Energy ( MEGEF )
shareholders on Thursday voted in favor of a buyout by Cenovus
Energy CVE.TO, ending a months-long takeover battle. nL4N3WI1WJ]
** Innosera, a consortium led by Nordic Capital and Permira,
failed to achieve the required level of support from
shareholders for its planned takeover of Bavarian Nordic BAVA.CO
and will withdraw its bid.
** Turkish Airlines has signed a deal to buy
around one-quarter of Spanish carrier Air Europa, the airlines
said.
** State Bank of India, the country's largest
lender by assets, said it will sell a 6.3% stake in SBI Funds
Management through an initial public offering, its second
attempt after an earlier announcement in 2021.
** KKR & Co ( KKR ) and Singapore Telecommunications
are in advanced talks to buy more than 80% of ST
Telemedia Global Data Centres - which would give them full
ownership - for over S$5 billion ($3.9 billion), two people with
direct knowledge of the plans said.
** India's Mahindra & Mahindra sold its entire
3.5% stake in RBL Bank for 6.78 billion rupees ($77.1
million), the automaker said, marking a 62.5% return on its 2023
investment.
** State-owned Qatar Airways has decided to sell its entire
stake in Cathay Pacific Airways ( CPCAF ) for about $897 million
(HK$6.97 billion), marking its complete exit from Hong Kong's
flagship airline after eight years.
** Nissan Motor ( NSANF ) has concluded a 97 billion yen
($643 million) deal to sell and lease back its global
headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, as part of its business
restructuring plans, the automaker said.
** Pfizer ( PFE ) is preparing to sweeten its offer again
for Metsera ( MTSR ), the Wall Street Journal reported on
Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
** MGA platform Doxa has acquired Georgia-based provider
American Hole 'n One (AHNO) in an effort to expand prize
indemnity, event promotions insurance, sports promotions
insurance and hole-in-one insurance.
** MFE-MediaForEurope, the television group
controlled by Italy's Berlusconi family, is negotiating to buy
no more than 33% of Portuguese media company Impresa
from the Balsemao family, Impresa said on Wednesday.
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Arasu Kannagi Basil and Anshi
Sancheti in Bengaluru)