Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds: Vista Outdoor, Primo Water Corp
June 17 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday:
** Vista Outdoor VSTO.N said possible pressure from investment firm MNC Capital might have forced one of the bidders for its sporting products business to drop a $2 billion offer. nL4N3IF0O8
** North American packaged water companies Primo Water Corp PRMW.N and BlueTriton Brands said they would merge in an all-stock deal. nL4N3IF0L6
** Australia's Macquarie Group MQG.AX said a consortium led by its asset management arm has agreed to divest a 37.5% stake in an offshore wind farm in the UK to Norges Bank Investment Management for about 330 million pounds ($418.2 million). nL4N3IF0IG
** Norway's sovereign wealth fund has bought a 37.5% stake in the 573 megawatts operational wind farm Race Bank offshore Britain for 330 million pounds ($418 million), it said. nL8N3IF07B
** Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners CVC.AS is in talks with public investment bank Bpifrance to jointly buy a minority stake in tourism and travel company Club Med from China's Fosun, French newspaper La Lettre reported. nL8N3IF05J
** Finnish insurer Sampo SAMPO.HE has agreed to buy Topdanmark TOP.CO in an all-share deal that values the Danish rival at 33 billion crowns ($4.73 billion), the two companies said. nL8N3IF03W
** Hong Kong-listed L'Occitane International 0973.HK said Chairman Reinold Geiger has offered minority shareholders an alternative to his existing $1.8 billion cash takeover offer as he pursues to take the skincare firm private. nL4N3IF099
** Activist investor Starboard Value has bought a roughly $500 million stake in Autodesk ADSK.O and is pushing for changes at the design-software maker, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. nL4N3IF00D
** Fisher Investments on Sunday said U.S.-based private equity firm Advent International and a unit of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) have agreed to acquire a minority stake in the money-management firm valuing it at $12.75 billion. nL1N3IE05K
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru)
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