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(Adds Impossible foods, WeWork and Anglo American)
The following deals, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures were reported at 16:15 GMT Monday:
** Impossible Foods, which makes meat substitutes from soy, is targeting a “liquidity event” that could include a public offering in the next two or three years, Chief Executive Peter McGuinness told Reuters.
** Shared office space provider WeWork announced a settlement with its second-lien creditors and a new cash infusion from its first-lien lenders, moving forward with a bankruptcy agreement that dismisses a $650 million offer from co-founder and former owner Adam Neumann.
** Anglo American faced calls from shareholders to detail plans to improve its value to fend off BHP’s bid, as activist investor Elliott upped the ante by increasing its stake in the target’s the public purchase offer.
** Indian group Manipal Hospitals said it will acquire an 87% stake in Medica Synergie, to expand its presence in eastern India.
** U.S. power company WEC Energy Group WEC.N said it would acquire a 90 percent stake in a solar project near Dallas, Texas, for about $459 million.
** Thyssenkrupp rejected claims by worker representatives that it failed to properly inform workers of its plan to sell a stake in its steel unit to Czech energy company EPCG, adding to growing tensions between the two parties.
** Regional bank UMB Financial Corp UMBF.O agreed to buy smaller rival Heartland Financial HTLF.O in an all-stock deal valued at about $2 billion, the banks said.
** Bahrain-based Investcorp will buy Indian National Stock Exchange NSEI.NS (NSE) digital technology services for $120 million, the alternative investment firm said, in its largest transaction in the country.
** Deciphera Pharmaceuticals DCPH.O said Japan’s Ono Pharmaceutical Co 4528.T would acquire the cancer drugmaker for $2.4 billion to expand its oncology portfolio and presence in the United States. United and Europe.
** South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesman said BHP Group’s bid BHP.AX to buy Anglo American AAL.L was “normal market activity”.
** Morphosys MORG.DE declared that its acquisition by Novartis
NOVN.S is still expected to be finalized in the first half of this year, after a press report about a possible drug safety risk sent the German biotechnology company’s share price tumbling.
** French IT company Atos ATOS.PA priced the state’s bid to take over strategic parts of the company, boosting its shares, but also said it would need almost two times more liquidity than estimated at the start of the month to stay afloat.
** Blackstone BX.N has agreed to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund
SONG.L for about $1.57 billion, topping a bid from Concord for the owner of music rights to artists including Shakira and Red Hot Chili Peppers, the companies said.
** Australia’s Pacific Smiles Group PSQ.AX said it was recommending a takeover offer for National Dental Care (NDC) HoldCo, valuing the dental center operator at A$303 million ($198.07 million) .
** The billionaire owner of L’Occitane International
0973.HK is set to make a takeover proposal for the French skincare company as early as Monday, in a deal that could value it at around $7 billion, including debt, Bloomberg reported News.