Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Sept 4 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Wednesday:
** Blackstone BX.N will acquire Australian data centre group AirTrunk for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16.10 billion), it said, in what would be Blackstone's largest investment in the Asia Pacific region.
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** British warehouse owner Segro SGRO.L will buy Tritax EuroBox EBOX.L in a deal valuing the European logistics real estate firm at about 1.10 billion pounds ($1.44 billion) including debt, the companies said.
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** U.S. private equity firm KKR KKR.N plans to launch its tender offer for Fuji Soft 9749.T shares on Thursday, from its original plan of around mid-September, Bloomberg reported, citing multiple unnamed sources.
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** British investment group Petershill Partners PHLL.L said it has sold its entire stake in investment manager LMR Partners back to the company for $258 million.
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** Australia's competition watchdog said it is seeking views from the market on French spirits maker Pernod Ricard SA's PERP.PA proposed deal to sell the majority of its domestic wine portfolio to Carlyle Group's Accolade Wines.
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** Dutch crop trader Louis Dreyfus said its takeover offer for Namoi Cotton NAM.AX is no longer subject to conditions, following approval from Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board and the local competition regulator.
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** Australia's Orora ORA.AX said it would sell its North American packaging business to U.S. private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice-backed Veritiv for an enterprise value of A$1.78 billion ($1.19 billion), sending its shares soaring.
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** Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel 5401.T, which is seeking to acquire U.S. Steel X.N, said if its purchase goes ahead core senior management as well as a majority of board members at the U.S. company would be U.S. citizens.
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** Enterprise cloud firm Salesforce CRM.N on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire Tenyx, which develops artificial intelligence-powered voice agents, to advance its AI-driven solutions.
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(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru)
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