Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds Sabadell, Royal Mail, Anglo America; Updates Hess, Energy Transfer
May 28 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1945 GMT on Tuesday:
** Hess HES.N shareholders approved the company's $53 billion merger with No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron CVX.N, according to preliminary results of the vote. nL1N3HV28C
** BHP BHP.AX was struggling to find common ground with Anglo American AAL.L in talks over its takeover offer, with no new concessions as a deadline nears for the world's biggest miner to submit a binding offer, five sources said. nL1N3HV21O
** Royal Mail's parent company International Distributions Services IDSI.L (IDS) is set to recommend a firm offer by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, a person with knowledge of the situation said. nL8N3HV5LM
** Spain's Sabadell SABE.MC has told its retail shareholders the bank has "excellent prospects" alone and that they may not need to make a decision about BBVA's BBVA.MC 12.23 billion euro ($13.3 billion) hostile takeover attempt until 2025. nL1N3HV0S2
** Energy Transfer ET.N said it would buy WTG Midstream Holdings in a deal valued at about $3.25 billion, the latest acquisition in the midstream sector aimed at expanding transportation and processing network in the Permian Basin. nL4N3HV2EX
** Riot Platforms RIOT.O said it has offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Bitfarms BITF.TO for about $950 million in total equity value, even after a private proposal was rejected by the crypto miner's board last month. nL4N3HV2KN
** T-Mobile TMUS.O will buy almost all of regional carrier United States Cellular's USM.N wireless operations including customers, stores and 30% of its spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, the telecom giant said. nL4N3HV28Z
** Adam Neumann has ended his bid to re-acquire WeWork WEWKQ.PK as the coworking business he co-founded has chosen to emerge from bankruptcy with an "unrealistic" plan, he told the New York Times Dealbook. nL4N3HV292
** Vista Outdoor VSTO.N said it had agreed to sell its sporting products business to Czechoslovak Group for $1.96 billion, after the Prague-based defense firm raised its offer to acquire the unit from the company. nL4N3HV29P
** Nordson NDSN.O, which makes products for a variety of industries, said it would buy medical devices maker Atrion Corp ATRI.O in an $800 million deal, expanding its medical portfolio. nL4N3HV24I
** Private equity firm Energy Capital Partners will buy Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure AY.O for $2.56 billion in cash, the utility said, in a deal that will give its biggest shareholder funds to lower its debt. nL4N3HV1ZR
** A consortium of U.S. firm KKR KKR.N and Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) STEL.SI has emerged as the frontrunner to buy a minority stake worth $1 billion in one of Asia's biggest data centre providers, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. nL1N3HV0PB
** Asahi Kasei 3407.T offered to buy Swedish drugmaker Calliditas Therapeutics CALTX.ST for around $1.1 billion as the Japanese maker company looks to turn itself into a global player in pharmaceuticals. nL1N3HV0GT
** OTE Telecom OTEr.AT, Greece's biggest telecoms operator, is in talks with West Network Invest for the potential sale of its Romanian mobile business, Telekom Romania Mobile, it said late on Monday. nL1N3HV0DC
** ABN Amro ABNd.AS has agreed to buy German private bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe (HAL) for 672 million euros ($730 million) from China's Fosun International 0656.HK to expand in wealth management, its largest deal since the global financial crisis. nL4N3HV02W
** Italy's Newlat Food NWLF.MI said on Monday it will buy British food group Princes for 700 million pounds ($891.9 million) to create the first Milan-based "unicorn" - or billion-dollar startup - in the food sector. nL8N3HU0RB
** Owners of Asian pallet pooling provider Loscam are considering a sale of the entire company in a deal that could fetch over $2 billion, three people with knowledge of the situation said. nL4N3HU0H7
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Aatreyee Dasgupta and Sourasis Bose in Bengaluru)
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