Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds: EPH, Shareholder Capital, GTCR, DMCI Holdings, Updates: BHP Group
April 25 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Thursday:
** BHP Group BHP.AX bid $38.8 billion for Anglo American AAL.L, offering a deal to forge the world's biggest copper miner and driving its smaller rival's shares 13% higher.
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** Czech energy group EPH, controlled by billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, is evaluating the possibility to exercise an option to take over Italian group Enel's stake in main Slovak electricity producer Slovenske Elektrarne, EPH's Chief Financial Officer Pavel Horsky said.
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** Investment firm Shareholder Capital sent a letter to drugmaker Vanda Pharmaceuticals' VNDA.O board asking it to reconsider Future Pak's takeover offer.
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** Private equity firm GTCR has agreed to pay $2.7 billion to buy AssetMark Financial AMK.N, in a deal that would take the wealth management platform private more than five years after its initial public offering.
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** Philippine conglomerate DMCI Holdings DMC.PS will acquire cement maker Cemex Holdings Philippines CHP.PS for $305.6 million after months of negotiations, the companies said.
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** Shares of Hipgnosis Songs Fund SONG.L climbed after Apollo-backed Concord outbid a proposal by private equity giant Blackstone BX.N, launching a bidding war for the owner of music rights of artists, including Shakira and Blondie.
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** Saudi Arabia's STC Group 7010.SE and sovereign fund PIF may bid for the Austrian unit of Spanish mobile phone tower operator Cellnex CLNX.MC, El Economista newspaper reported on Wednesday evening citing unidentified industry sources.
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** Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) said it had signed an agreement to buy a 49% stake in a 644 megawatt portfolio of Spanish solar plants from Iberdrola IBE.MC for 203 million euros ($217.5 million).
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** Japanese chip material maker Shin-Etsu Chemical 4063.T said it will launch a tender offer for Mimasu Semiconductor Industry's 8155.T shares in a 86 billion yen ($553 million) deal.
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** A consortium of Hong Kong's CK Infrastructure 1038.HK, CK Asset 1113.HK, and Power Assets 0006.HK will acquire a Northern Ireland gas distribution network operator, Phoenix Energy, for an enterprise value of about HK$7.4 billion ($945.3 million).
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** Malaysian conglomerate Axiata Group AXIA.KL and Indonesian group PT Sinar Mas are going ahead with plans to merge their telecom operations in Indonesia to create a $3.5 billion entity, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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** Laboratory service provider Labcorp LH.N said on Wednesday it will acquire Softbank-backed 9434.T Invitae Corp's NVTAQ.PK assets auctioned through a voluntary bankruptcy protection process, a few months after the genetic test maker filed for bankruptcy.
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** Hess Corp HES.N on Wednesday said its board has set April 12 as the record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to vote on the proposed merger with Chevron Corp CVX.N.
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** Blackstone BX.N has agreed to buy Tropical Smoothie Cafe, the private equity firm said on Wednesday, in a deal that a source said valued the restaurant chain at $2 billion.
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** International Business Machines IBM.N will buy HashiCorp HCP.O in a deal valued at $6.4 billion, the company said on Wednesday, expanding its cloud-based software products to tap into an AI-powered boom in demand.
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(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Anuja Bharat Mistry in Bengaluru)
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