Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds: Mattel, Tellurian Updates: Clearwater Paper, Agilent
July 22 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1955GMT on Monday:
** L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by luxury goods giant LVMH LVMH.PA, has approached Mattel MAT.O, the toy maker behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, with an acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said. nL1N3JE0WI
** Energy producer Woodside Energy WDS.AX has agreed to buy U.S. liquefied natural gas developer Tellurian TELL.A, including its U.S. Gulf Coast Driftwood LNG export project, for $1.2 billion including debt, the Australian company said. nL1N3JE014
** Agilent Technologies A.N said it will acquire contract drug manufacturer Biovectra for $925 million to expand its portfolio of services offered to biotech companies and medical researchers.nL4N3JE15A
** Vista Outdoor VSTO.N said Czechoslovak Group had raised the base purchase price for its ammunition business, Kinetic Group, by $50 million to $2.15 billion. nL4N3JE0TE
** Caisse d’Epargne Hauts de France, which is part of France's BPCE banking group, has signed an agreement with China's Dajia Insurance group to acquire 100% of Bank Nagelmackers, which is Belgium's oldest bank. nL1N3JE0F0
** Insurance-focused conglomerate Fairfax Financial FFH.TO agreed to buy retailer Sleep Country Canada Holdings ZZZ.TO in a deal valued at C$1.7 billion ($1.24 billion). nL4N3JE106
** Clearwater Paper CLW.N has agreed to sell its tissue business to Sofidel America for $1.06 billion, sending Clearwater's shares up about 10%.[nL4N3JE0U1]
** Terex TEX.N said it would acquire Dover Corp's DOV.N environmental solutions business in an all-cash deal valued at $2 billion, as it looks to tap into the growing waste management market. nL4N3JE0WY
** Goodyear Tire & Rubber GT.O will sell its Off-the-Road equipment tire business to Japan's Yokohama Rubber 5101.T for $905 million in cash, it said, as part of a drive to streamline its business. nL4N3JE0S0
** British shopping mall owner Hammerson HMSO.L said it is selling its 42% stake in luxury shopping centre operator Value Retail to LVMH-backed private equity firm L Catterton for an enterprise value of 1.5 billion pounds ($1.94 billion). [nL4N3JE0FI]
** Britain's Vodafone VOD.L said it sold a further 10% stake in Vantage Towers for 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion), bringing its ownership in a group which controls European mobile phone masts down to its intended level with infrastructure investors. nL8N3JE08W
** Australia's Woodside Energy WDS.AX said it had agreed to buy U.S. liquefied natural gas developer Tellurian TELL.A, including its U.S. Gulf Coast Driftwood LNG export project, for $1.2 billion including debt. nL1N3JE014
** U.S.-based private equity firm Stonepeak said it would buy New Zealand's Arvida Group ARV.NZ for NZ$1.24 billion ($745.74 million) excluding debt, sending the aged care provider's shares up nearly 60% to the highest in more than two years. nL1N3JE00O
** Porsche is considering taking a minority stake in Varta as a way to safeguard a potential investment in the battery maker's large-format lithium-ion battery business disclosed earlier this month, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported. nL8N3JD04W
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Priyanka.G and Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru)
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