Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds Julius Baer, Terna, Blackstone Real Estate and Banco BPM
Nov 6 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Wednesday:
** Italy's third-largest Banco BPM BAMI.MI on Wednesday said it would launch a buyout offer to gain full control of asset manager Anima Holding ANIM.MI in an up to 1.6 billion euro ($1.7 billion) deal.
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** Blackstone Real Estate BX.N entered into an agreement to take Retail Opportunity Investments Corp ROIC.O private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $4 billion, including debt.
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** Italy's power grid operator Terna TRN.MI said it had reached a deal with utility Acea ACE.MI to buy part of the high-voltage network in the Rime area, in a move aimed at improving the electricity transmission service.
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** Swiss private bank Julius Baer BAER.S has tapped Goldman Sachs GS.N to advise on the sale of its Brazilian operation, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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** Cencora COR.N will buy Retina Consultants of America from private-equity firm Webster Equity Partners for $4.6 billion, the drug distributor said, beefing up its presence in the market for specialty medicines.
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** Private equity firm KKR KKR.N has acquired a 35% stake in Japanese software developer Fuji Soft 9749.T after the first part of its two-stage buyout tender offer, the latter said in a statement. nL1N3MD087
** Japan's Itochu Corp 8001.T said that it agreed with Brazil's steel company Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) to buy a 10.74% stake in CSN's iron ore unit CSN Mineracao (CM) from CSN for about 4.42 billion real ($769 million). nL8N3MD0SK
** Emerson Electric EMR.N on Tuesday proposed to buy the rest of AspenTech AZPN.O that it does not own at a valuation of $15.1 billion, as the company looks to sharpen its focus on industrial automation. nL4N3MC189
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Kamal Choudhury in Bengaluru)
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