Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds Paramount, Blackstone and Elis
Sept 5 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000GMT on Thursday:
** CBS parent Paramount Global PARA.O will be controlled by software billionaire Larry Ellison after Skydance Media completes its purchase of the Redstone family's interest in the film and TV company, Bloomberg News reported, citing a regulatory filing.
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** A private equity consortium including Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone BX.N is in talks to acquire Smartsheet SMAR.N, a U.S. maker of workplace collaboration software with a market value of about $7 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
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** French workplace supplies provider Elis SA ELIS.PA has approached Vestis VSTS.N, the former uniform rentals business of Aramark ARMK.N, with an acquisition offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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** TPG Telecom TPG.AX has received a green light from Australia's competition watchdog for a A$1.59 billion ($1.07 billion) infrastructure and network sharing deal with Optus as TPG seeks to expand its reach.
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** Japanese retail giant Seven & i 3382.T will inform Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard ATD.TO that its takeover bid price is "inadequate", a source familiar with the matter said.
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** BNY BK.N has agreed to buy Archer, a technology and operations provider, that will help the U.S. bank expand its services to asset and wealth managers, the companies said.
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** Canada's First Majestic AG.TO has agreed to buy Gatos Silver GATO.N for $970 million in an all-stock deal, the miners said, against the backdrop of surging prices of the metal.
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** Verizon VZ.N said it would buy Frontier Communications FYBR.O in an all-cash deal worth $20 billion, as the U.S. wireless carrier looks to expand its fiber network.
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** ASOS ASOS.L has agreed to sell its Topshop and Topman brands to a new joint venture with the holding company of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen in a deal valuing them at 180 million pounds ($237 million), the British online retailer said.
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** Blackstone BX.N will buy Australian data centre group AirTrunk for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16.10 billion), it said on Wednesday, in what would be Blackstone's largest investment in the Asia Pacific region.
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(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Vallari Srivastava and Abhinav Parmar in Bengaluru)
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