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(Additions: RedBird IMI, Stone Point Capital)
The following deals, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures were reported at 1430 GMT, Friday:
** RedBird investment group IMI said it had agreed to buy British film and television production company All3Media for 1.15 billion pounds ($1.45 billion).
** Private equity firms Stone Point Capital and General Atlantic raised their offer to buy employee selection company HireRight Holdings HRT.N to $1.65 billion, the companies said.
** Shares of Swiss packaging company Aluflexpack
AFPD.S jumped more than 80% after it announced that Austrian peer Constantia Flexibles had made a takeover offer for the company.
** Gabon’s national oil company has agreed to acquire Assala Energy from Carlyle CG.O after using its right to pre-empt the company’s $1.3 billion sale to France’s Maurel & Prom, the two said companies.
** Italian financial group Unipol Gruppo UNPI.MI announced an offer for the 14.75% of UnipolSai US.MI that it does not yet own, valuing the insurer at 7.64 billion euros (8. 23 billion dollars) with the aim of simplifying the structure of the group.
** ABB ABBN.S will acquire the American company SEAM Group, the Swiss engineering group announced, with the aim of expanding its services in the field of electrification.
** French energy company Maurel & Prom MAUP.PA said it would not acquire Assala Energy CG.O from Gabon’s Carlyle as the Gabonese national oil company signed a share purchase agreement with Assala.